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Smart dummies: How robotic tackling tech is transforming football practice

USA Football MVP Robotics

Hit takers: The cutting-edge engineering making football helmets safer than ever

helmet engineering

The latest wild idea for space exploration? Robots made from hunks of ice

ice robot

Meet the man on a controversial mission to preserve and digitize your brain

brain with computer text scrolling artificial intelligence

Audience Choice Awards: Top Tech of CES 2021

Audience Choice Awards

Digital Trends Tech For Change CES 2021 Awards

Tech for Change Awards Feature

The future of making stuff: Inside the evolution of 3D printing with Formlabs

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Digital Trends Top Tech of CES 2021 Awards

Top Tech of CES 2021 Awards Feature

What does 2021 have in store? Here are science fiction’s predictions

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Robotic police officers are slowly being normalized, whether we like it or not

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Holotron is a robotic exosuit that could transform the way we use VR

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A disembodied robot mouth and 14 other 2020 stories we laughed at

The Prayer

Serial 1 shows why you’d spend $5,000 on an e-bike — and not feel shortchanged

Serial 1 Mosh e-bike

His granddad lost the ability to read, so he built a DIY text-to-speech rig

text to speech reader

No cows required: This startup’s lab-grown milk is identical to the real thing

remilk lab grown dairy milk bottle

This is how Google’s internet-serving Loon balloons can float for nearly a year

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Meet Ghost Robotics, the Boston Dynamics of combat bots

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Robots progressed by leaps and bounds in 2020. These were the highlights

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This clever new technique could help us map the ocean floor — from the sky

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Behind the scenes: How Apple designed its most exclusive product ever

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Digitizing your brain: Sci-fi pipe dream, or scientific possibility?

brain network on veins illustration

How A.I. bumblebee brains could usher in a new era for navigation

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The digital switch that blocks all websites from selling your personal data

6 important tech tasks you should get over with while social distancing chores computer privacy getty

The end of Arecibo: The era of giant telescopes is coming to a close

Arecibo Observatory's 305-meter telescope in November of 2020.

How SpaceX could transform Starlink into an ultraprecise GPS network

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Measuring microns: The quest to build a better GPS

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How artists and activists are using deepfakes as a force for good

Deepfake President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama

Leaps, bounds, and beyond: Robot agility is progressing at a feverish pace

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Planet busters: We asked a physicist what it would take to obliterate Earth

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These blaze-battling bots are the future of firefighting

5 best firefighting robot projects

The good, the bad, and the ugly of satellite megaconstellations

constellation satellites around earth

Can A.I. solve one of the oldest mysteries of linguistics?

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Open-Source Leg: The quest to create a bionic limb that anyone can build

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Scientists want to blanket the Earth in sensors. Their secret weapon? Moths

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Are deepfakes a dangerous technology? Creators and regulators disagree

Ryan Reynolds as Willy Wonka Deepfake from NextFace

We have the tech to make wildfires less severe. Deploying it is the hard part

forest fire season prevention

How big data forced the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence to evolve

big data search for extraterrestrial intelligence night 2

The most influential Hispanic leaders in technology

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There’s a way to weaken hurricanes, but scientists say it’s too crazy to try

Hurricane Florence 2018

The writer of The Meg just launched a giant, virtual sea monster aquarium

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Pandemic-fueled automation is gobbling up jobs, and we’ll never get them back

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Neuroscience’s superstar explains how A.I. is weak, why we dream, and more

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Meet the MIT artist who builds with fungus and paints with swarms of drones

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This is how the universe will end (according to a theoretical astrophysicist)

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Data storage and dirty energy: What Big Tech’s carbon neutral pledges leave out

Wind turbines

The Big Tech antitrust hearing is today. Here’s why it matters

Styled Graphic featuring Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai

The airship is making a futuristic, luxury comeback

Image of Ocean Sky Cruises

She lived in a simulated Mars habitat for four months. Here’s what she learned

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Noah’s Ark, but for germs. Inside the plan to build a doomsday bank of bacteria

microbiome vault

Inside the quest to 3D print a perfectly palatable steak

3D printed steak
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