European powers team up to build homegrown drones

Drones are sufficiently commonplace now that if you aren't building your own, you get a serious dose of FOMO. 

Google Drops Cloud Computing Prices By Up To 30 Percent, Launches Preemptible Instances

Google today announced yet another round of price cuts for its cloud computing platform, as well as a new instance type that will allow businesses to save even more on some of their cloud computing tasks.

Baidu, China’s Leading Search Engine, Makes Strategic Investment In Content Recommendation Platform Taboola

.Baidu, the maker of China’s largest search engine, has made a strategic investment in content recommendation startup Taboola. The companies declined to name the exact amount of the deal, but said that it is in the “multi-millions.”

Beautiful Two-Stroke Engine Lets You Watch Its Inner Workings

Combustion of fuel—a process that you, me and everyone else we know very much relies on—is usually hidden from sight inside that big hunk of metal called an engine. But Huib Vissier saw something beautiful in this process, so he built a simple engine that showcases combustion rather than concealing it.