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Engine Recall Forces Major Airlines to Ground Planes and Cancel Flights

Spirit Airlines revealed in a recent earnings report that Pratt & Whitney's engine recall may ground seven of the company's Airbuses through the end of 2023.

Transportation Kevin Hurler Aug 14

FAA Grounds Bezos After New Shepard Booster Goes Up in Flames

Early speculation suggests there’s something wrong with the rocket’s BE-3 engine, which would spell bad news for Blue Origin.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Sep 14

World’s First Hydraulic Drone Promises Six-Hour, Non-Stop Flights Over 500 Miles

By powering spinning propellors with hydraulics instead of electricity, this drone massively boosts its range.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 24

Explosive-Powered Nutcracker Obliterates Every Festive Snack

Even nuts made of metal don't stand a chance inside this nutcracker's steel jaws.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Dec 6

Volkswagen Will Say Goodbye to the Combustion Vehicle Business in Europe by 2035

The car maker said it would make its entire fleet carbon neutral by 2050 at the latest.

Tech News Jody Serrano Jun 27

Lenovo’s Latest Gaming Laptops Sport Intel’s New 11th-Gen H CPUs

Today, Intel announced a new range of faster 11th-gen Intel Core H-series CPUs, so naturally Lenovo decided to take those chips and put them into a bunch of new gaming laptops slated to arrive later this summer. Lenovo’s new lineup of gaming notebooks consists of four new systems ranging from 15 to 17 inches in…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford May 11

Hand Building a Powerful 565 Horsepower Car Engine Is Like Completing the Hardest Puzzle

What you’re seeing is the engine of a 2017 Nissan GT-R—that is, the 3.8-liter V6 24-valve twin-turbocharged engine—being hand assembled. It’s like the world’s hardest 3D puzzle that gets bigger as you’re going through it with more complicated pieces to mess up the process. The final product is a machine of beauty, 565 horsepower with…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 24

An Up-Close Look at The Exclusive Engine for The Next Airbus

Rolls-Royce Holdings has just released this cool factory photograph of their newest large turbofan aircraft engine, the Trent 7000. It’s the seventh generation of their Trent family, and built exclusively for the upcoming Airbus airliner, the A330neo. The Airbus A330neo, successor to the Airbus A330, will be a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner, and its Trent…

Tech News Attila Nagy Nov 28

Watch a motorbike engine disintegrate one millimeter at a time

Watch as this motorbike engine gets sanded down millimeter by millimeter. This is so much cooler than seeing something poof and disappear away because we get to watch it slowly disintegrate into nothing. It’s like seeing decay of a hundred years over a few seconds. Each peeled back layer exposes something new in the engine…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 24

Beautiful Two-Stroke Engine Lets You Watch Its Inner Workings

Combustion of fuel—a process that you, me and everyone else we know very much relies on—is usually hidden from sight inside that big hunk of metal called an engine. But Huib Vissier saw something beautiful in this process, so he built a simple engine that showcases combustion rather than concealing it. Enter the two-stroke 1C,…

Tech News Maddie Stone May 17

Truck shoots out neat smoke rings of fire as its engine explodes

I don’t know why this happened (or if the truck somehow stumbled upon some secret Mario Kart item that lets it shoot out fiery smoke rings like a red shell) but it’s such a cool effect. The smoke that blows out of the truck’s engine forms perfect o rings and then bursts into flames. SPLOID…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 28

Passenger films one of his airplane’s engines on fire

Here’s one horrible nightmare: Sitting on your airplane and seeing one of the engines on fire. That’s what happened to Brad McCoy’s BAE 146 airliner on his way to Barrow Island, Australia, the guy who took this video. Fortunately, the pilot was able to make a successful emergency landing at Perth. Asked if it was…

Sploid Jesus Diaz May 3

This Is NASA’s Solar Propulsion Engine of the Future

This Tron-esque glowing blue ring isn’t the latest designer lamp. In fact, it’s NASA’s cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster, being tested in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Using xenon ions to create its thrust, the engine is being considered for use as part of the Asteroid Initiative—NASA’s plan to capture a small asteroid and redirect it safely…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe May 27

This Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine Just Made the World a Much Better Place

Rejoice, humans, for life just got a lot better thanks to a new wonder of the internet: the Calvin & Hobbes search engine! Created by Michael Yingling using Bing (he’s not using Bing, his nickname is Bing), this is the most stupendous invention I’ve seen in a long time. You just enter any term and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 29

The Mach 6 Scramjet Could Fly from JFK to SFO in an Hour (if it Doesn’t Tear Apart on the Way)

We could have had Bin Laden in 1998. However, in the 80 minutes it took for a volley of cruise missiles travel from US ships in the Arabian Gulf over to his training camp in Afghanistan, he had done packed up and left. If those warheads had been riding on the new X-51 hypersonic jet…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 21

Awesome Time Lapse Shows How Rolls-Royce Builds Its Jet Engines

The 152,455-piece Lego Rolls-Royce Trent engine may be the most complex Lego machine ever built, but it’s nothing compared to the real thing. This awe-inspiring time lapse video shows how they build the turbo-fan engine that powers some of the most popular airliners in the world, including the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. https://gizmodo.com/152-455-piece-rolls-royce-engine-is-the-most-complex-le-5924749 The Trent powers…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 16

152,455-Piece Rolls-Royce Engine Is the Most Complex Lego Machine Ever Built

This is insane. 152,455 Lego bricks, 677 pounds (307 kilograms) and 6.56 feet long (2 meters). That’s how amazing this Lego cut-out of a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine is. It has over 160 separate engine components just arranged like the engine that power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Rolls-Royce—who presented their Lego engine yesterday at the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 10

Dinosaurs! DNA! Space Shuttles! 10 Things to Make With Your 3-D Printer

It’ll probably be a few more years before 3-D printing begins revolutionizing the world of retail, but it’s already making a sizable splash in today’s DIY community. For around 1500 bucks, it’s now possible to get your hands on a consumer-grade 3-D printer that’s capable of churning out some pretty cool objects. https://gizmodo.com/10-futuristic-places-to-shop-5900548 https://gizmodo.com/this-cube-made-of-gears-shouldnt-work-but-it-does-5867151 So…

io9 Joseph Flaherty - Wired Design May 14

The world’s tiniest steam engine uses lasers instead of coal

Steam engines run because of statistics — the particles in the machine have a predictable overall behavior, which drives the engine’s piston up and down. But if you shrink the engine down to micrometer size, it’ll contain far fewer particles, few enough that the behavior of each individual particle could potentially throw the entire apparatus…

io9 Sophie Bushwick Dec 16

A Boat Motor That Blends A Fine Cocktail

Anyone with a boat powered by a vintage Johnson motor will tell you that a well-maintained outboard engine can last decades. When then motor finally dies, don’t discard it. Convert the engine into the best-looking blender ever. Spotted on Etsy is a 1958 18 HP Johnson outboard motor that was gutted and modded into a…

Tech News Kelly Sep 1

Engine

Engine Recall Forces Major Airlines to Ground Planes and Cancel Flights

FAA Grounds Bezos After New Shepard Booster Goes Up in Flames

World’s First Hydraulic Drone Promises Six-Hour, Non-Stop Flights Over 500 Miles

Explosive-Powered Nutcracker Obliterates Every Festive Snack

Volkswagen Will Say Goodbye to the Combustion Vehicle Business in Europe by 2035

Lenovo’s Latest Gaming Laptops Sport Intel’s New 11th-Gen H CPUs

Hand Building a Powerful 565 Horsepower Car Engine Is Like Completing the Hardest Puzzle

An Up-Close Look at The Exclusive Engine for The Next Airbus

Watch a motorbike engine disintegrate one millimeter at a time

Beautiful Two-Stroke Engine Lets You Watch Its Inner Workings

Truck shoots out neat smoke rings of fire as its engine explodes

Passenger films one of his airplane’s engines on fire

This Is NASA’s Solar Propulsion Engine of the Future

This Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine Just Made the World a Much Better Place

The Mach 6 Scramjet Could Fly from JFK to SFO in an Hour (if it Doesn’t Tear Apart on the Way)

Awesome Time Lapse Shows How Rolls-Royce Builds Its Jet Engines

152,455-Piece Rolls-Royce Engine Is the Most Complex Lego Machine Ever Built

Dinosaurs! DNA! Space Shuttles! 10 Things to Make With Your 3-D Printer

The world’s tiniest steam engine uses lasers instead of coal

A Boat Motor That Blends A Fine Cocktail

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Touchscreen Laptop Is Now Cheaper Than an Entry-Level iPad at Best Buy

Polaroid’s New Hi-Print for Phone Photos Doubles as a Freestanding Frame

Researchers Turned Acid From Car Batteries Into Something Surprisingly Useful

‘Starfleet Academy’ Star Karim Diané Is Heading to IDW’s ‘Star Trek’ Pride Comic (Exclusive)

Artemis 2 Day 7: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

A Cure for Knee Arthritis? It May Be Closer Than You Think

Dyson Car+Boat Handheld Vacuum Is Now the Cheapest Entry into the Brand at an All-Time Low, Cordless and Lightweight Cleaner for Less

Meta Hopes a Hide-and-Seek App Will Convince You to Buy Its Smart Glasses

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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