Take a Ride in This Passenger-Ready Drone

At CES in Las Vegas, Chinese drone company Ehang unveiled a 500-lb quadcopter, called the Ehang 184, capable of transporting a human. The personal, pod-like drone employs four arms and eight propellers to transport a person (up to 220 lbs) at speeds reaching 62-miles-per-hour on a 23-minute trip. Navigation is controlled through an on-board app, which allows flyers to select their destination and then sit …

The New York Public Library’s Massive Online Data Dump

The New York Public Library has just released more than 180,000 photographs, postcards, maps and other items from its collection to the digital world. The information dump—spearheaded by the library’s in-house technology division, NYPL Labs—is an effort to see how the public can re-envision ways to use its trove of information. “We don’t just want to put stuff online and say, ‘Here it is,’ but …

Highlights from China’s Massive Snow and Ice Festival

Each year, the northern city of Harbin, China hosts the International Snow Sculpture Art Expo—a spectacular exhibition showcasing the wonders of ice and snow as a building material. Officially opened on 5 January, this year’s event features the works of artists around the world and the crystalline castles, monstrous stark-white sculptures and frozen corridors they’ve spent weeks building. Head to the Atlantic to see some …