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Emerging Tech News Archive
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Office of Naval Research thinks cyborg locusts could help us sniff out explosives
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Amazing 3D-printed zoetrope reveals an animated picture when illuminated
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A DIY laser bazooka is the most terrifyingly awesome thing you’ll see today
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This robot salamander can swim and crawl, just like a real amphibian
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Robocup hopes robots can beat professional soccer players by 2050
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NASA explains why Jupiter-bound mission is important
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Soft-wheel robot could play a role in rescue missions or even deep space exploration
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Watch NASA test the monstrous rocket booster that’ll take us to Mars
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Neuroscientists just found that texting alters your brainwaves, but they can’t explain why
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The FDA approved this ‘stomach pump’ implant, and doctors aren’t happy about it
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Self-assembling nanomachines may help detect disease
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Seed-bombing startup DroneSeed wants to fight deforestation with a swarm of UAVs
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Kaz Hirai reveals Sony is working on a robot with 'emotional' capabilities
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Microsoft CEO’s 10 Laws for AI (and humans, too)
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Watch this Miniature Falcon 9 rocket nail its barge landing
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Smart billboards will identify car models and target ads to drivers
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Roli's Seaboard Rise MIDI controller offers a whole new way to make music
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Cutting-edge metastasis prediction algorithm can accurately predict the spread of cancer
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Scientists are building an enormous telescope — at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea
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Tactical AI beats a US Air Force colonel in a dogfighting simulation
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Crowdfunded great white shark expedition prepares to set off
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Amazon makes it way easier to add skills to Alexa
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Good luck trying to counterfeit one of these nano-watermarked Swiss watches
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Tour de France officials will use thermal imaging to catch ‘bike dopers’
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One of these poems was written by an AI — can you guess which one?
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Sperm whales in Caribbean more chill than counterparts in the Pacific
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Cozmo is like a lovable Pixar character come to life on your desk
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Will future buildings be built from artificial bone and eggshell?
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Groundbreaking random number algorithm may be boon for online security
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BBC’s new ‘Robot Wars’ resurrects your favorite wired warriors
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Showering just got easier with this new soap-repellant coating
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NASA buys $750K gadget to recycle 3D-printed plastic on the space station
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NASA’s long-armed robot will refuel and repair satellites in space
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Ridiculously dangerous DIY helmet lets you shoot fire from your eyes
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China is on track to launch a second space station into orbit in September
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New ‘bio-ink’ could be used to print new cartilage and bone implants
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Be the best swimmer possible by slipping into this $900 wetsuit
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ESA locking astronauts in an underground cave … for training
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Rolls-Royce’s cargo ship of the future requires no onboard crew
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Burning Man attendee builds techno-blazing art car to honor festival
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Prisons fight drug smuggling drones with drone-detection technology
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Love chocolate? Scientists say they can electrify it to make it low fat and taste the same
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A giant floating barrier might be the answer to cleaner oceans
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The Curiosity rover is going to look for water on Mars
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: A camera with brains, turbo toothbrush, and more
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Crops grown on Martian soil have been deemed safe to eat
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Virtual Eye could be a potential lifesaver for military and first responders
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With ten 3D printers and a robotic attendant, this automated fab lab doesn't need any human help
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Boston Dynamics serves up the stuff of nightmares with its ‘dancing’ SpotMini robot
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Brilliant VR startup leverages the ‘memory palace’ technique to boost learning speed
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New research paper from Google reveals what the company fears most about AI
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Great Britain may be out of the EU, but bitcoin is definitely in the black
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Green city or ghost city? Masdar a failed experiment in sustanainble planning
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This scrappy Russian startup is beating Google and Facebook at facial recognition
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Meet Toru, the German robot that’s picking through your packages
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Before Juno’s upcoming historic entry into Jupiter’s orbit, watch how it all began
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What’s scarier than downtown LA? Careening down a glass slide 1,000 feet above it
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i.materialize brings laser sintering to the masses with new aluminum 3D printing option
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This 3D-printed map of London is one of the coolest things you could ever hang on your wall
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Xiaomi’s foldable electric bike ideal for China’s crowded streets
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3D printing saves life of baby born with brain outside his skull
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Researchers accidentally develop a material that may help fight water shortages
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This NASA-backed startup is building a 3D bioprinter that makes human organs in space
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This underwater drone lets you explore the deep blue without getting wet
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Ditch your idiotic self-balancing scooter for a hoverboard that actually hovers
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The world’s largest Nerf gun is all your childhood dreams come true
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The FAA’s new rules for commercial drones will likely hinder drone-based delivery
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The creators of this high-tech toothbrush claim it can clean your teeth in 10 seconds flat
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Duke University engineers just built a robot that’s 10,000x faster at planning motion
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This brilliant 10-year-old kid built a fully functional 3D printer out of Legos and K’nex
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To boost wind energy production, China needs to build turbines where the wind isn’t strong
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Could there be oceans of liquid water lurking beneath Pluto’s surface? Astronomers say yes
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This bizarro bicycle reinvents the wheel … as a set of spider legs
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Machine uses X-rays, algorithms, and water jets to cut a perfect fish fillet in under a second
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A lake in Italy has 2 miles of stunning floating walkways on it
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Geneva Airport has a friendly bag-carrying robot named Leo
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Thanks to the HoverCart, you can finally put a lawn chair on your hoverboard
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Bend it, twist it, generate electricity with it — these nanogenerators may make energy easy
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Equimetre is an AI-powered wearable that aims to bring horse races into the 21st century
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Synthia is a massive virtual city where autonomous vehicles can safely learn how to drive
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This self-replicating 3D printer is made almost entirely from 3D printed parts
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Truly autonomous drones unveiled courtesy of Airobotics in Israel
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Weaponized drone swarms will meet their match with this 60-kilowatt laser
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With help from this AI assistant, doctors can diagnose breast cancer with near perfect accuracy
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Sphero’s new SPRK+ robotic orb features improved Bluetooth and a more robust shell
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Amazing new solar cell is so thin and flexible that it can wrap around a pencil
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China and Moscow could one day be connected via the Hyperloop
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After watching 600 hours of TV, this AI program can predict when people will hug or high five
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Could Walmart replace shopping carts with robots?
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IBM’s AI system Watson just edited an entire magazine all on its own
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The Max Pump is a tiny but powerful air pump for all your inflatables
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Olli is the 3D-printed, totally autonomous electric shuttle bus we’ve all been waiting for
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Good news, robots! Humans like you more when they build you themselves
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Here's the most efficient route for a road trip through the lower 48 states
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Bad drivers beware: this AI-powered dashcam app is watching you
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Your camera’s digital ‘fingerprint’ could prevent image theft and fight crime
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An artist built a robot that stabs humans just to make a point
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International effort uses low-power technique to break down plastics into usable fuel
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Revealing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism: the world’s oldest computer
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For the first time since 1967, we start summer with a ‘Strawberry Moon’
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The end of sexual reproduction could be 20 years away, claims bioethicist
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Watch Blue Origin achieve a ‘picture-perfect’ capsule crash-landing
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Siemens is at it again with a hybrid train capable of 125 mph
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Mosha the elephant goes mobile with a prosthetic leg
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Shoe socks, a GoPro remote you bite, and more
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Lovely day for a landing: ISS astronaut trio return to Earth
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This $1.28 million watch is made of transparent sapphire
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The Scorpion Art Car from Burning Man is for sale on eBay
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Meet Maxwell X-57, an electric plane that NASA takes seriously
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft will celebrate July 4 with a series of super-close Jupiter flybys
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Cricket Shelter, a combined emergency shelter and food source
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How 3D printing brought two shipwrecks back to the surface
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UK council's latest staff member is an AI called Amelia
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With a little technological magic, this dad build a sorting hat straight out of Harry Potter
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Renewable energy may overtake fossil fuels by 2040, according to report
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Space X: Crash into drone ship ‘accordions’ engines of Falcon 9 rocket
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Could this attack prediction algorithm help stop ISIS before it strikes next?
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History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 years
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This fingerprint ID system for infants sounds scary and Orwellian, but it could save lives
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Russian robot escapes from lab, disrupts traffic, causes chaos in the streets
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Project Soli isn’t in wearables yet, but these guys used it to create invisible violin
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Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company Blue Origin is going to livestream its next rocket launch
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Trust us, this video of 15 different sorting algorithms is way more entertaining than it sounds
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The International Space Station’s new low-gravity 3D printer just printed its first tool
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Boeing's solar-powered airplane looks ridiculous, but it might just be crazy enough to work
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Snap a photo of your meal and this AI-powered startup will tell you how many calories it contains
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There are no jobs on Mars yet, but NASA’s recruiting posters are ready for you
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LIquidPiston’s tiny but powerful rotary engine could usher in a new era for drones
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NASA offers $500K to anyone who can grow lifelike human tissue for space experiments
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India aims for a record by launching 22 satellites on a single rocket
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France is building the world’s biggest automated meteor-spotting network
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch didn’t go quite the way it was planned
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Aliens have probably once existed, according to leading astrophysicists
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Europe accelerates startup accelerators, while US remains on cruise control
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NASA just set fire to a cargo ship in space
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Astronomers want to deploy 5,000 tiny robots to help build a 3D map of the universe
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Meet Scubo: the ridiculously agile robotic sub that’s helping scientists explore the ocean
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Watch astronaut Tim Peake explain why somersaults in the ISS don't make you dizzy
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The ‘spacecraft cemetery’ is the final resting place for hundreds of rockets and satellites
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MIT scientists built a neural network that can pass the ‘Audio Turing Test’
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Researchers develop electronic skin material that can be easily commercialized
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A helicopter-mounted lidar system let archaeologists map an ancient Cambodian city
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Pepper the friendly robot has started a new job
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‘God of War,’ ‘Horizon,’ and a new Kojima game: Here’s everything Sony showed at E3
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NASA is teaming up with United Arab Emirates to gather data for a manned mission to Mars
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In just two years, Elon Musk wants to establish a cargo route between Earth and Mars
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NASA wants astronauts to have 3D printed pizza, and this startup is building a printer to make it happen
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Who needs a prosthetic arm when you can have a steampunk tattoo machine arm instead?
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Apple pulls back the curtains on its ‘Spaceship’ campus
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The ESA’s space junk collection plan involves shooting large nets at derelict satellites
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Teach your kids how to code with Root: a playful, programmable drawing robot
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Iceland is fighting climate change by capturing CO2 and turning it into stone
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India is building a $60 million supercomputer that will help predict monsoons
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This amazing looping elevator system could help ease commuting stress
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While you’re waiting for the GoPro drone, check out the Exo360
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DC runs your gadgets, so why not your house? This DC dwelling dares to try
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Astrocams, boombox art, and more
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Fun on a 25 mph, electric-powered, two-wheeled cup holder — it even has a seat
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Robot workers are showing up in malls, hotels, and parking lots
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The latest tool in the NSA's toolbox? The Internet of Things
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Can’t see the stars? You’re not alone — 80 percent of the world can’t either
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History was just made — Solar Impulse 2 completes U.S. flight
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Israel’s new ‘RoBattle’ bot is built with swappable modules that change its abilities
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‘Sunspring’ is an absurd sci-fi short film written by AI, starring Thomas Middleditch
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These light-up sneakers are a bit fancier than the ones you had as a kid
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Just when you thought it wasn’t safe to get in the water, new shark-repellent tech arrives
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This pint-sized exoskeleton is helping disabled kids walk again (or for the first time)
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Climate scientists plan to map coral reefs from the sky
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SkinGun helps burn victims quickly regrow skin by spraying them with their own stem cells
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Haunting infrared footage of Las Vegas was made with a modified Sony RX100 IV
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CSI: The Ocean? Researchers study seafloor ‘fingerprints’ to gauge storm surge
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China has plans to construct an underwater ‘research lab’ 10,000 feet below the South China Sea
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White House asks AI experts to help with America’s prison overcrowding problem
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ULA is launching the world’s biggest rocket today. Here’s where to watch it live
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Basketball-loving kid gets a 3D printed hand designed specifically for shooting hoops
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Bill Gates says he’s ‘excited about chickens,’ and here’s why
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Last month, for the first time ever, the UK generated more energy from solar than coal
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While awaiting a transplant, this guy lived with an artificial ‘heart in a backpack’ for 555 days
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Tired of dragging your suitcase upstairs? Try the TraxPack instead
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These Inception-like cityscapes were designed autonomously by a computer program
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NASA just gave $100K to a company that wants to steer asteroids toward Earth
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The US Army’s new earbuds give soldiers tunable hearing, protection from loud noises
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Adidas shoes made of recycled ocean plastic on sale this month
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This proposed drone taxi service just took a big step toward becoming a reality
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FAA warns that GPS on the West Coast may be unreliable due to secret tests this month
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Animation captures the massive scale of what will be the world’s largest telescope
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Live: You can stream the White House’s AI for Social Good workshop right now
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Robot overlords: Google researchers unveil framework for an AI 'kill switch'
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Astronauts take us inside the space station’s new inflatable room for the first time
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UC Davis biologists are trying to grow transplantable human organs inside of living pigs
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For soldiers and old folks, the Superflex exosuit may help carry the load
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Second-gen bionic leaf creates fuel from sunlight, makes Mother Nature seem inefficient
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Next-generation ‘Big Wing’ Predator drone completes 37-hour test flight
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Future fighter pilot training may include brain surgery
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Weekly Rewind: Facebook's alleged snooping, Tesla's new doors, coolest hotel rooms
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Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Folding skateboards, vacuum 3D modelers, and more
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Designed by MIT entrepreneurs, Invincible is the ultimate city-proof bike
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Chile is giving away its surplus solar energy for free
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Elon Musk thinks we should insert ‘neural laces’ into our brains so we can become cyborgs
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Here are 10 astounding pictures of the world's longest railway tunnel
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Not before time, pro soccer will finally start testing in-game video replays
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Elon Musk thinks we’re basically living in the Matrix, and we should be glad about it
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Here’s what yesterday’s swarm intelligence AMA predicted about the future of politics
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Australia installing pavement traffic lights to alert distracted mobile addicts
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To save Earth, Jeff Bezos wants to move heavy industry to outer space
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Airbus sees drones as worthy alternative to high-cost, high-maintenance satellites
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Give your skateboard a boost by hooking it up to a battery-operated drill
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Check out our most detailed view of Pluto to date
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A neodymium magnet finally beat a hydraulic press
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Will swarm intelligence predict America’s next president?