--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ryan Sager ## Ryan Sager Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close ## Ryan Sager Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Oct 9, 2014 ### [Watch a Swarm of Drone Boats Protect a Larger Vessel](https://time.com/3475261/watch-a-swarm-of-drone-boats-protect-a-larger-vessel/) The Navy tests a new way to protect ships [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 3, 2014 ### [Watch a Snake Robot Turn Its Head and Tail Into Legs... And Walk](https://time.com/3457037/watch-a-snake-robot-turn-its-head-and-tail-into-legs-and-walk/) Yikes [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 29, 2014 ### [See Drones Draw Shapes in the Night Sky](https://time.com/3433214/see-drones-draw-shapes-in-the-night-sky/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 25, 2014 ### [Watch These Beautiful Drones Dance With Cirque du Soleil](https://time.com/3430309/watch-these-beautiful-drones-dance-with-cirque-du-soleil/) Flying lampshades come alive [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 22, 2014 ### [Watch a Swarm of 1,000 'Kilobots' Assemble Into Different Shapes](https://time.com/3418779/watch-a-swarm-of-1000-kilobots-assemble-into-different-shapes/) A thousand-robot swarm created by Harvard researchers can self-assemble into different shapes [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 19, 2014 ### [Watch This Crazy Drone With Arms Fly and Turn a Wheel in Mid-Air](https://time.com/3404624/watch-this-crazy-drone-with-arms-fly-and-turn-a-wheel-mid-air/) I, for one, welcome our new armed-drone overlords [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 16, 2014 ### [New Robot Cheetah Can Run (And Jump) Without a Tether](https://time.com/3380906/robot-cheetah-runs-no-tether/) 'Our robot can be silent and as efficient as animals. The only things you hear are the feet hitting ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 12, 2014 ### [Well, the Written Word Is \[insert gif here\]](https://time.com/3340912/well-the-written-word-is-insert-gif-here/) The all-gif smartphone keyboard is—nevermind, I give up... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 17, 2014 ### [Kasparov: 'Carter looks like Churchill in comparison' to Obama](https://time.com/26755/kasparov-carter-looks-like-churchill-in-comparison-to-obama/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/ryan-sager/","name":"Ryan Sager"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/ryan-sager/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/ryan-sager/"},"name":"Ryan Sager","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-sager/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```