Two steel giants are merging — despite Trump’s move to turn the industry on its head

Thomson Reuters Tata Steel and Germany’s Thyssenkrupp, two huge steel businesses, have agreed to merge. The German-based company’s executive board approved the plans on Friday after signing a memorandum of understanding last September. The deal comes at a time when President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda has turned the global steel industry upside down.   Tata […]

“All-Weather” Tires Explained: Merging All-Seasons and Winter Tires

– If you live somewhere north of the Mason-Dixon line, cold weather is an annual reality. And in places like our home state of Michigan, the beginning of fall often means thinking about getting one’s car (or in our case, our long-term test fleet) ready for snow, i.e., new winter tires. But not everyone switches to dedicated winter rubber in the cold months, instead relying on […]

Ben Heck’s Super Glue Gun: Merging form and function

The team continues buckling down on its Super Glue Gun project. Felix brings together a custom-designed motor control circuit that will be used for extruding the glue. Meanwhile, Ben cuts up the perfboard to prototype the size of the printed circuit board that will eventually fit inside the handle. Thankfully, this task is made easier […]

Fashion and technology are merging — here’s what that means for our future

Metropolitan Museum of Art The arts and technology are beginning a courtship that may fundamentally affect the way we perceive both of them: in visual art, we have Google Deep Dream, creating hallucinatory vistas on par with the wackier end of Hieronymus Bosch or Alan Aldridge; in music, we have A.I composers; virtual reality offers an unprecedented […]