Category: Science & Tech

Ring announced the Always Home Cam during the Amazon event on Thursday, a “compact, lightweight, autonomously flying indoor camera” that can fly around the home, searching for disturbances.  Though the technology sounds wonderful (who wouldn’t want a personal security drone monitoring their home) it will undoubtedly raise some red flags about privacy.  Big Brother Watch, a non-profit British advocacy group, described the drone as the “most chilling home surveillance product” yet.

The US Department of Energy issued a statement on Friday calling for private sector help in its years-long project to develop technology that would sustain future civilizations on the moon as well as Mars. NASA and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have been working on a portable nuclear reactor to power deep-space exploration, such as human missions to Mars in the next decade and beyond.