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Navy Patents to ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’

The U.S. Navy has patents on weird and little understood technology. According to patents filed by the Navy, it is working on a compact fusion reactor that could power cities, an engine that works using “inertial mass reduction,” and a “hybrid...

Google Wants to Test Drones for Firefighting

Google is asking the US Federal Aviation Administration for permission to test a drone for monitoring and fighting fires, according to a document filed Tuesday with the FAA. The ask comes from Google parent Alphabet’s Google Research Climate and Energy Group...

Tech Allows Gesture Control of Robots and Devices

Senior software engineer David Alfonso of Boston-based Pison Technology doesn’t resemble the sorceror’s apprentice from the old Walt Disney cartoon “Fantasia.” But with a wave of his hand, he seemed almost as powerful. Armed with only a high-tech cuff wrapped around...