The camera is ideal for firefighting, search-and-rescue, agriculture, inspection, and other industries.
China’s DJI, the world’s largest maker of drones, has teamed up with FLIR, a leader in thermal imaging technology, on an aerial camera capable of detecting subtle differences in heat signatures.
Months after its last failed attempt to land the Falcon 9, SpaceX is gearing up to do yet another test launch of the unmanned rocket.
After the disastrous test run of its rocket back in June, SpaceX went dark for a few months, save for the occasional Twitter kerfuffle. But today, the private space company announced it is finally ready for another attempt: CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19. The rocket will contain 11 satellites that are being sent into lower Earth orbit for a client called Orbcomm, a New Jersey-based communications company.
The new feature is targeted at Facebook users in developing countries, some of whom may not always have access to high-speed Internet.
Facebook revealed today that it is altering the news feed in its mobile apps, to make its content more accessible to users in developing countries who might have slower Internet connections. The social network is also introducing the ability to comment on stories while offline.
Walmart Pay, the retailer’s native mobile payments system, is compatible with all smartphones—unlike services from Apple and Samsung.
Walmart is launching its own proprietary mobile wallet app, Walmart Pay, which will begin rolling out this month in the U.S. Walmart Pay is intended as an Apple Pay and Android Pay competitor—except for the fact that it keeps payments (and fees) completely within the retail giant’s in-house ecosystem.
Some advice for what to do with a sudden cash windfall: Travel, education, or just plain fun. But not more things—they won’t make you happy.
Science shows that if you want to buy happiness, your best bet is to buy experiences not things. Physical objects may last longer than a one-off experience, but that fails to account for what’s known as the Easterlin paradox: We adapt quickly to our current levels of material wealth. We might be happier for a bit if we win the lottery, but in the long run, we’ll go back to however happy or miserable we were before.
Plants do a worker bee good.
Indoor plants aren’t just about gussying up a sterile cubicle. Numerous studies have shown that greenery is a potent way to boost workers’ mood and productivity. In Talinn, Estonia, the architects at KAMP took this notion to heart in their transformation of a factory into the offices of Lenne, a children’s clothing brand.
Scale is a modular partitioning system designed for open plan offices that allows you to easily split up any space, and make it quieter.
Big open offices are the modern—and perhaps broken—standard, but acoustically, they’re nightmares: cavernous concrete bunkers where people are afraid to speak above a whisper. “No one really thinks about the quality of sound in a workplace,” says Benjamin Hubert of Layer Design. “Everyone loves these huge concrete open plan workspaces, because they’re visually cool, but the sound is wearing.”
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