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Monthly Archives: December 2020

8 lucky New Year's foods from around the world

For many of us, a traditional New Year’s feast is comprised of Champagne and whatever confetti happens to fall into that Champagne while we’re drinking it. But for lots of revelers around the world, New Year’s is a time to eat symbolic (and perhaps more substantial) treats. Cultures from nearly …

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Amazon's Zoox reveals self-driving taxi

Amazon’s Zoox division has unveiled the autonomous vehicle it hopes will soon start delivering people. Zoox L5 Fully Autonomous, All-electric Robotaxi The self-driving electric four-passenger taxi has been designed for use in a ride-hailing service with sliding doors, center-facing seats for easy access. It doesn’t have a steering wheel or pedals …

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Navy arms first new Flight III destroyer with next-gen weapons

Laser weapons, electronic warfare, long-range precision-strike weapons, and over-the-horizon missile attacks are but merely a few of the expanded maritime warfare mission sets planned for the U.S. Navy’s new fleet of DDG 51 Flight III destroyers, a new class of warship intended to propel the service’s ability to wage massive …

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China flamethrower drone burns wasp nests

A technologies has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central world-regions in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests. Blue Sky Rescue, a volunteer group that conducts search and rescue and other emergency work, has teamed up with villagers in Zhong County near the city of …

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