Monterey Car Week has finished and a host of memories have been consigned to history. We attended everything from the Concours de Lemons, Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, McCall's Motorworks Revival, The Quail and Tour d'Elegance through to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Read more
The sea has given up another its mysteries, as billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel recently discovered the resting place of the USS Indianapolis after its loss 72 years ago from a Japanese submarine attack. Read more
It's not unusual for new mountain bikes to be unveiled at the Crankworx festival. What certainly is unusual, though, is a bike that premiered at this year's event. Made by Structure Cycleworks, the SCW 1 does away with a traditional suspension fork, and replaces it with a linkage-style suspension. Read more
Rumblings about the Mercedes-AMG Project One have been around for a while, but details about thie racer for the road have been hard to find. The Quail, part of the Monterey Car Week, was used to show the world what lies beneath the Project One's skin. Read more
Zyl Vardos has carved out a niche producing one-of-a-kind dwellings and its latest model, the Damselfly House, stands out from the crowd with a distinctive sculpted roofline and a large window box. Its light-filled interior includes two bedrooms and lots of storage space. Read more
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Microsoft researchers have hit a milestone 25 years in the making. The company's conversational speech recognition system has finally reached an error rate of only 5.1 percent, putting it on par with the accuracy of professional human transcribers for the first time ever. Read more
Kazuya Katagiri’s award-winning Shi-An is a movable mini tea house constructed entirely out of paper using ancient Origami processes. The igloo-like structure is just one of Katagiri’s fascinating recent experiments with different techniques and materials. Read more
Mobility is a challenging concept in Africa. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have been working on a solution that could prove just valuable to remote communities by offering a low-cost, modular and emission-free vehicle built to handle rough terrain. Read more
Infiniti's retro-modern racer was perhaps the most pleasant surprise amongst Pebble Beach debuts. One complaint: the initial debut left us absolutely starving for some driving footage. Thankfully, Infiniti didn't wait long to show some on-track action. Read more
Gemstones might not seem so valuable if they literally rained from the sky, but that's thought to be a common weather pattern on ice giant planets. Now scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have seen it in action here on Earth, by making it rain diamonds in the lab. Read more
No, it is not a tiny whiteboard. While the Everlast can be wiped clean with a damp towel like a whiteboard, a whiteboard isn't endlessly reusable and connected to all of your favorite cloud services. When you write using any pen from the Pilot FriXion line in the Everlast, your writing sticks like regular paper, but you can easily export all that information to your private cloud service, or scan it into your device. Never want to buy another notebook? Well, you won't after this one. Read more
On the gaming calendar, Gamescom is wedged between E3 announcements and the holiday rush of releases. Along with the odd surprise reveal, there's usually plenty of new tidbits and teases for upcoming games, so New Atlas is digging into some of the most exciting trailers we've seen so far this week. Read more
Rovr has reimagined the cooler, going beyond the bear-proof, rotomolded construction so common on the market these days. It calls its cooler an "all-terrain attacking, gear-hauling beast of burden that can go anywhere you can" and follows through with pneumatic tires, a cargo bin and a bike hitch. Read more
With all the new game trailers and announcements coming out of Gamescom this week, now might be a good time to upgrade your rig. Lenovo has launched three new gaming PCs for its Legion line aimed at hardcore, mainstream and casual players, as well as a new monitor with High-Dynamic Range (HDR). Read more
Each year in Monterey, the winners of the most prestigious concours of the previous year are gathered for a best-of-the-best shoot-out judged by the most revered names in the industry. This year a 1954 Maserati A6GCS Berlinetta won Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award. Read more
A solar eclipse might darken the day for minutes, but 65 million years ago the sun may have disappeared for 18 months. New simulations show that atmospheric particles would have blocked sunlight, disrupting plants' photosynthesis and cascading into a mass extinction event. Read more
Having teased the world with tantalizing shots of a prototype getting sideways, BMW has officially announced the G30 M5. With almost 600 hp from a twin-turbocharged V8 and switchable all-wheel drive, it has hardware to match the Mercedes-AMG E63 – but is the world ready for an all-wheel drive M5? Read more
DNA security is a looming problem that scientists and researchers are only just starting to grapple with. A team at Stanford has now developed a way to "cloak" irrelevant genomic information, allowing scientists to access key data without revealing an individual's broader genome sequence. Read more
Nokia is making a comeback under its new owners, but the former king of mobile phones will has a lot of ground to make up if it wants to reclaim that crown. Here, we put the new flagship Nokia 8 up against the iPhone 7. Read more
The Bugatti Chiron debuted last year at the Geneva Motor Show. A year later, Bugatti delivered the very first examples in Europe and the Middle East. Now, the Chiron has officially made its way to the United States, a yellow-and-black model having been delivered to its owner this past weekend. Read more
Scientists have closely examined the contents of avocado seed husks and discovered these flaky coatings to be incredibly rich in useful chemical compounds, including some that could be used to improve treatments for cancers, heart disease and other conditions further down the track. Read more
Google has rolled out the finished version of its Android 8.0 mobile operating system, adding the nickname "Oreo" for good measure. As usual, the roll-out will take some time, with those owning Pixel and Nexus phones likely to be first in line. Read more
Boeing and Northrop Grumman have stolen a march on rival Lockheed Martin, announcing today in separate releases that they'd won US Air Force contracts to develop preliminary designs for the next generation of American ICBMs. Read more
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