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Worried about the airline losing your luggage? A ten-cent technology could help. Infrastructure failures are likely to grow says a new study. And German engineers work to preserve a scenic railway. This is your weekly news brief.

Project First Responders seeks to answer how drones are used in the event of natural disasters, forest fires and other events.

Rain boots from chewing gum? We’ll show you how. A portable LED device purifies water and sterilizes medical equipment. And a voice analysis tool that may help doctors diagnose a deadly disease. This is your Engineering360 news brief.

Using the online demos and instructions, makers can either 3-D print or laser-cut their own TJ Bot and then follow the step-by-step instructions to connect it to Watson services. The guidelines were designed based on a Raspberry Pi and are available on Instructables.com and GitHub.

In the UK, plastic money is now the real deal. A free online design program for drone enthusiasts. And a simple tap test may help pipeline companies find cracks and other flaws. Here's your weekly news brief.

Intel is making strides in drone technology. Now it has set a Guinness World Record for "The Most UAVs Airborne Simultaneously" using 500 of its brand new Intel Shooting Star drones.

GM and IBM let Watson ride shotgun. You’ve had freeze-dried coffee, but freeze-dried beer? We’ll tap a keg and show you more. And tighten those seatbelts! A robot flies a plane. Here's your weekly news brief.

The micro-robots could be used in agriculture, search and rescue, or disaster relief.

The technology expands the reach for Internet of Things devices, medical implants and space exploration.

Mouser Electronics has teamed up with Local Motors and celebrity engineer Grant Imahara to show off the final build of a 3-D-printed vehicle equipped with drone-launching technology.

A college campus uses biofuel for heating. An Indiana plant is adopting Industry 4.0. And Lockheed Martin dives deep to generate electricity.