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You might think of drones as friendly things, like the DJI Phantom you fly yourself or those Amazon drones that could soon be delivering your groceries.Think again when it comes to military drones. An MQ-9 Reaper unmaed aerial vehicle with a 66-foot wingspan can loiter 50,000 feet above the Earth for a day at a time, poised to hit a target with a devastating 3,800 pounds of Hellfire missile payload. But as with all weapons, the awesome firepower of a drone needs to be aimed accurately. "It's less about technology than about strategy, about the way it's deployed," said Gavin Hood, director of drone drama "Eye in the Sky," out now on DVD and Blu-ray. "Drones are new but still a weapon of warfa...

Seven words was all it took. Kevin Bacon responded to a fan's suggestion that he play movie maniac Freddy Krueger onscreen with seven positive words, and fans went as crazy as the Elm Street maniac himself.On Friday, a fan tweeted that Bacon should take on the iconic horror role, and he surprisingly responded. Bacon's got a horror-movie pedigree. He was famously filleted in bed in the original "Friday the 13th" movie in 1980, and he's also starred in "Flatliners," the chilling "Stir of Echoes" and the original "Tremors" film, among others.Fans loved the casting suggestion, and let the world know it. ...

[embedded content] It's monsoon season in the US state of Arizona and that brings some gorgeous storms along with it. Hallie Larsen, a park ranger at the Petrified Forest National Park, captured an unusual burst of lightning in a photo. The bolt arcs across the landscape and forms into what looks like a Tyraosaurus rex head, mouth agape, ready to take a bite out of a mesa.The US Department of the Interior posted the image to its Facebook page on Wednesday, gaering thousands of reactions. "Have you ever seen lightning make such crazy shapes?" the department asked. Facebook fans saw lots of things besides a dinosaur. Here's a brief list of other responses: the front hal...

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When you hand your credit card over at a restaurant a hotel room, you probably don't mean to give your information to hackers, too....

I'm seated in a giant ballroom where vast rows of chairs face seven glowing supercomputers. Each liquid-cooled rack of servers is lit with a different color. The crowd of a couple hundred people cheers the computers on toward victory. Though they stand on a dais at the Paris Las Vegas resort as still as statues, the computers are locked in heated battle with each other. Commentators on a jumbo screen offer a play by play of the invisible battle. "The race for third is very tight," says Hakeem Oluseyi, an astrophysicist, in a rousing voice.ForAllSecure's team Mayhem stands as a silent sentinel in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. Laura Hautala ...

Mixing and matching. Deciding which combination of components sounds best to you. Buying new pieces of gear to fit into a system is one of the more enjoyable aspects of the AV hobby. Yet until now, no one has really thought to take this concept to tabletop speakers. But Sonic Blocks is looking to change that.The Sonic Blocks ecosystem is a unique entry in the wireless speaker sector, offering users the ability to customize almost every segment of the product -- from the sound, to the number of chaels, to the appearance, and finally to the role it will perform in your home.The kits start as a $399 cube, which comprises a "bass" driver, a flat-panel midrange and a soft-dome tweeter. Each panel...

[embedded content] Pro golfer Bubba Watson has a thing for outrageous golf carts. Watson and his sunglasses-making sponsor Oakley had a tall order to top 2013's thoroughly nutty hovercraft golf cart. They delivered with the debut of the BW-Air, an unholy combination of a jetpack and a golf cart that thumbs its nose at pesky little things like designated paths, water hazards and sand traps.The BW-Air is both an advertising stunt and a way to celebrate golf's retu to the Olympics. The sport is on the menu for the 2016 summer games in Brazil in August. The Olympics last hosted golf way back in 1904, long before jetpacks were a thing. Watson's ride c...

If you think American vending machines are amazing, stop talking. Look at this instead....

In a butt-puckering video, three Russian men climb Paris' Eiffel Tower and record it using POV and drone footage....

Earth as seen from the moon in 1969. NASA The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is looking to roboticised construction to help create habitats for humans on Mars and the moon. It will be working with construction company Kajima, which has already tested an autonomous construction system. The A4CSEL allows human operators to deliver instructions to the machinery equipped with GPS and accelerometers using tablet computers. It has already been used to construct dams in the Fukuoka and Oita prefectures.Kajima plans to develop new software that also allows the machines to communicate with each other, so as to avo...

RoadshowNewsFrom steam to Shinkansen: The massive machines of the Kyoto Railway Museum Kyoto is best known for its myriad temples and shrines, and its gorgeous Gion district. But for fans of mighty machines, the new Kyoto Railway Museum offers a few hours of diversion from beautiful, ancient wood structures. Just a few minutes walk west of Kyoto station, the museum houses 53 trains dating back to 1880. Hulking steam locomotives, lavish wood-lined rail cars and streamlined Shinkansen bullet trains all await. More than just a display for trains, the museum also features exhibits about how trains work, how Japan's rail network is managed, and even a massive model railroad. Here's a ...

The Motorola Moto Z. Lenovo Dressing up your phone with bolt-on accessories may be the new black. Lenovo on Thursday unveiled its Moto Z and Moto Z Force phones, which both boast the ability to accept modular add-ons, letting you magnetically attach things like a souped-up speaker from JBL or a miniature projector. Lenovo is just the latest company to offer modular attachments, underscoring a push by the phone makers to stand out beyond a simple rectangular slab. LG already offers this capability on its G5 and Google's Project Ara promises even more customizable options. Will you want to customize your Moto Z...

The periodic table of elements is about to welcome four new elements by name to the periodic table. The names have been reviewed by the Inteational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and are expected to be approved later this year by the IUPAC council.So say hello to Nihonium, or Nh, for the element with atomic number 113. The name was proposed by the element's discoverers in Japan, who wanted to make a direct coection to the country where it was discovered. Nihon is one of two ways to say "Japan" in Japanese, and means "land of the rising sun." The team "hopes that pride and faith in science will displace the lost trust of those who suffered from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster," acc...