by Michael Belfiore | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
It was in 2007, during the DARPA Urban Challenge in the Mojave Desert, that self-driving cars first proved that they could navigate city streets with traffic to complete what may well have been the world’s slowest auto race. Speed was limited to posted limits of...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog
I’m amazed no one has done this before, and there’s only one company doing it now. Microfabrica, based in Van Nuys, California, has perfected the technique of mass producing mechanical devices using the same electrodeposition technology used to make...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog
As a freelance journalist I both receive pitches and I myself pitch editors at multiple publications on a regular basis. It’s how I’ve been making a living for the last 12 years, so I know what works, from both sides of the fence. This graphic shows the elements of a...