A unique airplane called the Cosmic Girl landed at Texas State Technical College’s airport in Waco earlier this year and parked inside one of the big hangars there. When it rolled out months later, the airplane was ready to launch a space rocket from under one wing while flying at…
Starting today, flyers at Love Field have the option of skipping to the front of the airport’s security lines, bypassing fellow travelers and the TSA agents responsible for making sure passengers’ identification is valid and matches their boarding passes. All those who want the privilege of being first in line…
You know you’re witnessing a particular kind of aviation history when the models show up. A pair of them in jean shorts and cowboy hats stalked the flight line at Addison Airport, hired to be eye candy for the photographers chronicling the North Texas visit of a vintage DC-3 airplane. Few airplanes deserve…
Robots are walking, crawling and flying into the future. And Dallas has opened the doors of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center to them for Xponential, a three-day event put on by the Association of Unmanned Vehicles International. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich entered the stage for the event’s first keynote…
Nearly 2 billion people across the globe log into Facebook for everything from avocado toast recipes to marketing their businesses. Moving all that information requires some serious hardware, and the social media giant has just opened the first building of Facebook’s largest data storage facility to date. “To some extent…
In the world of lawn care, one robot in Dallas rises to the level of celebrity. That’s the Spider ILD02. On Thursday it drew a small crowd of gawkers, mostly parks department employees, while cutting the grass near Reverchon Park. The North Texas Tollway Authority uses the remote controlled robot…
For Bell Helicopter, this week’s Heli-Expo 2017 conference was a chance to use some home field advantage. That included a large presence at the Dallas Convention Center, several solid sales announcements and, best of all, flights for media and prospective buyers from the Dallas Vertiport downtown. Bell, headquartered in Fort Worth,…
As it does every half-decade or so, the time has come for Dallas Area Rapid Transit to figure out a plan to raise prices. The cost for riding DART for a full service day would, under the proposed plan, increase from $5 to $6 and rather than buying a single…
In May, we told you about DART’s new, near-field communication fare system. The system, which has the potential to solve a few of DART’s longstanding problems, is set to debut sometime in early 2017, but the equipment that it’s going to use is already being placed on buses. The NFC…
Thanks to AT&T, southern Dallas is about to have some of the fastest internet connections in the United States, the company and city announced Tuesday. By next summer, more than 20,000 homes south of the Trinity River and Interstate 30 will be wired for broadband speeds of at least 1…
Big announcement from DART: In addition to the ways in which riders can now pay their fares (cash on the bus, DART’s mobile GoPass app and cash or card at light rail station ticket vending machines) DART riders will have a new option early in 2017 — a reloadable card…
Defense industry money is a lot like military aircraft. Sometimes it arrives loudly, like a cargo plane rumbling down a runway. Other times it slides into a local economy like a stealth bomber — quietly but effectively. This clumsy analogy brings us to last week’s announcement that the Pentagon is spending…
Plane spotters and aviation workers around Dallas Love Field Airport are always on the lookout for new aircraft. Last week SevenMikeCharlie took to Reddit to note a unique military arrival. “I created this post because I recently saw a new P-8 Poseidon arrive at Love Field,” he wrote, sparking a…
Opinions about the F-35 Lightning II are ubiquitous, and they are usually focused on its staggering $200 million-per-airplane cost. Other coverage details the engineering struggles of the airplane as the Pentagon program advances, concentrating on evaluations from the Government Accountability Office and internal Pentagon program evaluators. The Texas factory outside…
Since Texas lawmakers considered, but failed to pass, a measure requiring warrants for obtaining cell-phone location data in 2013, has been a major shift has occurred in public discourse over electronic privacy, thanks to disclosures, by Edward Snowden and others, of widespread government surveillance. The bill, by Representative Bryan Hughes,…
Spencer Noon thinks bitcoin is going to change the world. The cryptocurrency — currently worth about $575 per unit — was created as an anonymous, digital means to provide verifiable online transactions outside the realms of governments and regulations. Despite high profile setbacks like the Mt. Gox disaster, in which…
Anthony Granville didn’t set out to strike a blow for privacy rights on the fateful day in November 2010 when he snapped a cell-phone photo in a boy’s restroom at Huntsville High School. Quite the opposite, in fact. According to prosecutors, Granville’s photo, taken without the subject’s permission, showed another…
A year ago, CBS 11 brought the world the tragic but ultimately hopeful story of Whitney Mitchell. The Dallas woman, 21 at the time, had been an aspiring dancer until sepsis took all four limbs when she was 18. She was learning to walk again with prosthetics and dreamed of…
Because you can never have too many reasons to feel inadequate about your teenage years, we’d like to introduce you to 16-year-old Graham Smith. By day, he’s your typical Episcopal School of Dallas sophomore. By night, he’s a white-hat hacker who’s recently gained notoriety by exposing security flaws in Snapchat…
Think of it as the intersection between origami and semiconductor manufacturing. Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have invented a nickel-alloy windmill so tiny that 10 of them could be comfortably anchored to a grain of rice. Smitha Rao and J.-C Chiao successfully tested the device, composed entirely…
It started as a Icemageddon mystery. Sometime between 6 and 9 p.m. on Friday night, a 10-month-old Greater Swiss Mountain Dog named Heidi went missing from her Fort Worth back yard. Her owners canvassed the neighborhood and put up fliers but to no avail. Finally, on day three, they turned…
If you’re planning a weekend getaway to University Park and hope to capture the authentic Park Cities experience of living in an overpriced home on an absurdly expensive postage stamp of land, you’d better act fast. The City Council there is mulling a crackdown on short-term leases of single-family homes…
