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Emerging Tech News Archive
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Transparent solar panels are the photovoltaics of the future
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Startup uses deep learning to let you shop for items by snapping photos
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Goodbye drops: Smart contact lenses release drugs directly into your eye
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Ever wanted to see what hurricanes look like from outer space? Here's your chance
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We are still alone: Scientists say signals received last year weren't from aliens
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A 1,000-watt laser blasting rust off of pipes is absolutely mesmerizing
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Astronauts can now sequence viruses, fungi, and — potentially — alien DNA in space
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Tease your cat from work with Acer’s new pet-tracking Pawbo Plus cam
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SpaceX is getting ready to actually reuse one of its reusable rockets
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Virtual reality hack lets you control a real-life robot arm
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Are aliens trying to contact us? Signals from faraway star have experts buzzing
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NASA's EmDrive thruster just took an important leap forward
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Motion-detecting smartphones can discover a deadly quiver in your heart
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This artist attached himself to a giant robot to paint his latest masterpiece
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Smart sensor and machine learning could help diagnose voice disorders
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A huge artificial wave pool may help make Perth a top surfing destination
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Part quadcopter, part plane, Parrot’s Swing minidrone is an aerial enigma
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Watch and learn: Machines taught to learn through observation
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This smart anti-concussion football helmet was created by a 19-year-old student
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Spitzer telescope lasted longer than expected, but its mission isn't done yet
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Squishy, 3D-printed ‘octobot’ is world’s first autonomous, untethered soft robot
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Boeing’s new 3D-printed tool for making wings is so big it set a world record
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New drone rules have just gone into effect, but they don’t help Amazon’s Prime Air plan
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Juno’s closest Jupiter flyby captured highest resolution images of the planet
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EyeForce is an affordable, ultra-widescreen VR headset will expand your horizons
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Xpider is the world's smallest (and cutest) programmable robotic spider
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What’s it like to live on Mars? Six scientists emerge from a yearlong Mars simulation
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Amtrak’s next-gen high-speed trains may arrive at the same time as the Hyperloop
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The connected cow business is about to jump over the moo-n
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Solar tents, growing furniture, a beer pong bot
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Swiss Post to test robots to deliver parcels, maybe even chocolate?
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Magnetic lace holders mean your shoes will never come undone again
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Police in Baltimore testing privately funded 30 square mile continuous image surveillance
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This guy’s Batman suit earns him a World Record
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Designed for the developing world, this low-cost fridge stays cool the same way your body does
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3D printing lets blind mothers ‘see’ ultrasounds of their unborn babies
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Fascinating new study explores the complex psychology of why humans feel empathy toward robots
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Full-size, 3D-printed Stargate portal replica took 1,000 hours to create
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Take charge of your hotel room with your voice assistant, Siri
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An end to "Darwin's nightmare"? Robot would terminate invasive lionfish
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A landslide may have caused this brilliant comet outburst captured by Rosetta
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Just in time for Burning Man – Jellyfish 12000 up for grabs
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Man makes a mini-fridge using the thermodynamics of rubber bands
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Analog DNA computers can perform math inside a test tube
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Comatose man, 25, has his brain 'jump-started' using targeted ultrasound
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Smart solution for cleaning up oil spills was inspired by nature
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America’s first offshore wind farm is set to come online in October
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Houston, we have a problem: Ambitious space mission faces major danger
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The PowerEgg is a UFO-like drone that looks straight out of Area 51
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The Kinect might not make great games, but it makes great music videos
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Manage your time like never before with Zei from Timeular
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Flying pizza on its way to New Zealand: Domino’s demos drone delivery
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Watch the world’s largest aircraft crash-land on only its second outing
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Proxima Centauri has a potentially habitable planet orbiting it, but are there aliens?
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Seven record-breaking roller coasters that will throw you for a loop
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Smartphone speech recognition can text 3 times faster than you can type
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More drone crashes caused by technical glitches, not human error, study shows
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Texas girl, 5, is pretty in pink with prosthetic arm 3D-printed at public library
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Rubik's Cube-like device lights up, lets you play 'Snake' in three dimensions
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With tiny hats, elephant seals help researchers study Antarctica’s melting ice
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Mouse’s body turned transparent to reveal its central nervous system
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An edible battery may help power next-gen ingestible medical devices
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Still use a kettle and flame? You should check out this water-boiling sponge
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Chicago hasn’t yet found an effective tech tool for cutting murder rate
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Parrot’s fixed-wing Disco drone dances into stores next month for $1,300
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Drones could soon be buzzing about at an airport near you – on leashes
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University of Kansas football coaches see plays from the bird’s eye view of a drone
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Tech-loving fraternities (and sororities) can now indulge in robot beer pong
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Astronomers want to create an artificial solar eclipse to study the sun
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Seniors can learn to avoid falls by completing a virtual reality obstacle course
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Back in touch! NASA has just made contact with a lost spacecraft after nearly two years
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Drones are now the delivery method of choice for contraband-craving Brit prisoners
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Would you buy a hammock for your head?
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3D-printed prosthetic saves the life of Uga the injured tortoise
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China just opened the world’s longest glass bridge in Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon
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Trance music hides secret messages in new encryption technique
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Researchers develop next-gen laser based on fluorescent jellyfish proteins
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Recycle your old Game Boy Classic by turning it into a drone remote control
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NASA preps for seven-year journey to sample a near-Earth asteroid
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The Omni Wheel turns any bicycle into an e-bike
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Your Facebook photos could be betraying important biometric data
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In exactly one year, we’ll bear witness to the “Great American Total Solar Eclipse”
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Microsoft Kinect camera helps assess symptoms in multiple sclerosis patients
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Company founded by 15-year-old wants to help the blind browse the web
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Machine learning, satellite data look at nighttime lights to gauge poverty in Africa
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Study suggests the internet is impacting our ability to solve problems and learn
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This new battery technology makes lithium ion look old school
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Warehouse robots might just make tedious jobs a thing of the past
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Watch astronauts install a “gateway to the future” on the International Space Station
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New bee-inspired algorithm is ridiculously good at planning routes for delivery vehicles
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Windyty adds European model forecasts, will offer free access to it to consumers
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'I will destroy all humans,' Audrey Hepburn-inspired robot tells its creator
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Ride in the sky: Airbus says it will test airborne taxis as early as 2017
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What 3 Words is literally putting everyone on the map
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NASA will hand over the ISS to a private company in about a decade
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The Force is most definitely with this ultra-detailed 3D-printed lightsaber
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‘Interscatter communication’ could help your brain implant talk to your iPhone
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Mobile brain-scanning helmet will allow subjects to be studied while on the go
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One giant leap for robots: NASA opens Space Robotics Challenge registration
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Want to track quakes on your own? Get a Raspberry Shake before campaign ends
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Glowing pink Pepto Bismol-colored planes? Yep, NASA has them
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Cute, power-efficient, traffic-beating smartbike is nearly ready to zip out of China
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See what the Perseids looked like from space in this awesome footage
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Could Dubai be the first landing spot for Elon Musk’s Hyperloop?
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Get your next dinner party in the mail, thanks to Feastive
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Want custom 3D-printed soles for your shoes? Now, you can get them from Ryka
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Finland just unleashed a fleet of self-driving buses in its capital
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Airlander: The world’s largest aircraft has just completed its maiden flight
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The best way to teach AI to communicate politely? Introduce it to Reddit, of course
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Another human job bites the dust: Robot apple-picker suctions the fruit off trees
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'GOAT' robot leg traverses difficult terrain like the animal it's named after
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Cool new glass technology will darken a room automatically
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Friday’s docking adapter installation will allow International Space Station to receive visitors
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Octopus-inspired ‘soft robots’ may be the future of robotics
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With a touch of sunlight, this tiny device kills 99.999 percent of bacteria
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Take a peek inside DJI’s first-ever Drone Arena
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Dubai’s latest wacky project is a rainforest inside a hotel
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LED-lighted wingsuit jumpers light up the Spanish skies
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Meet Marty, the friendly robot that will turn your kid into a master coder
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Like little homing missiles, nanorobots target tumors for direct drug delivery
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‘Largest structure in the universe’ undermines fundamental cosmic principles
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‘Can I borrow your pickup?’ NASA needs help moving an asteroid
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Estream is a personal hydroelectric generator for charging your gadgets
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The robo-lawyer that appealed $4M in parking tickets is now helping the homeless
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Researchers use high-pitched sound to levitate a sphere
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AI ‘guardian angel’ may help firefighters keep their cool in burning buildings
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Crop-eating Canada geese meet their nemesis — a laser-wielding scarecrow
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Want to drink beer and make sustainable fertilizer? Urine luck!
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Elon Musk landed his sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launching a satellite into orbit
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These flash tattoos aren’t just pretty — they can control your phone too
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This leather wallet isn’t just pretty — it’s Bluetooth connected and trackable, too
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Toasteroids, mechanical puzzle books, and more
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PetChatz puts you in constant contact with your beloved fur babies
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Super high-speed travel may be going to India in the form of the Hyperloop
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Self-healing clothes? It could be a possibility thanks to a squid protein
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Ready to live in deep space? NASA is starting to develop habitats for our journey
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Fathom One is a modular underwater drone that lets you explore the deep
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Meet Wilson X — the football that’s smarter than you are
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Criminal profiling tech can pin down your background based entirely on your voice
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World's highest-flying glider set to become a game-changing weather station
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Researchers develop always-on camera that only responds to certain gestures
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New AI program could help drones avoid flying over big crowds
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Solving the world's biggest challenges with AI could net you a cool $3 million
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Just for kicks: this robot will absolutely destroy you in a game of foosball
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Cyber war: British army goes high-tech with futuristic drones and VR headsets
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You can make a bionic hand out of a Keurig, and that’s not all
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Lightweight infrared camera technology to help uncover what's unknown about our moon
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The U.S. Air Force wants to detonate plasma bombs in the sky
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This crazy inventor just built — and tried out — a huge 360-degree swing in his yard
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Time-lapse offers glimpse inside the cockpit when landing at London City Airport
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Newly developed 3-minute saliva test could help cops determine if you're driving while high
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Every page of this book is a complex mechanical puzzle you must solve
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3D printing used to create prosthetic hand for an 8-year-old boy
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China is developing a hypersonic space plane that makes the Space Shuttle look primitive
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There's a startup offering $1M in liability insurance to drone pilots for just $10 per hour
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'Bed of nails' surface material tears apart bacteria, leaves animal cells intact
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Adidas robots are coming to Atlanta to make your next pair of sneakers
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GE installs advanced sensors to monitor an active volcano
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Passenger caught with loaded 3D-printed gun in carry-on luggage
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Tiny ‘neural dust’ sensors may help scientists monitor your nerves in real time
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This startup is launching a 360 cam into space so we can see Earth in VR
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Don't blame the Soviets: The Sun almost started World War III, study finds
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When doctors can’t reach sick people in Madagascar, they send this medicine-carrying drone
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Made almost entirely from printed parts, ULIO is the most 3D-printable 3D printer yet
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Watch a nanoscale rocket engine thruster ‘take off’ under a microscope
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Skully’s founders allegedly wasted millions, ripping off Indiegogo backers
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After successful tests in Rwanda, Zipline’s medicine delivery drones are headed to the U.S.
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Most drones just snap pictures, but this one can paint them on canvas
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Disney wants to stick projectors on drones and fly them in its parks
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The Mojave desert will be home to 3D-printed Martian colony bases
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KickStick is a skateboarding wizard staff that works like a motorized oar
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Watch your tone! Machine-learning algorithm can detect sarcasm in tweets
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Would you let a robot give you a tattoo? This crazy French guy did
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NASA adds five novel ideas to its initiative to cut planes' fuel usage in half
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Bye humans! The Washington Post is using a robot to report on the Rio Olympics
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Watch a NASA rocket fire in slow motion, thanks to an advanced new camera
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The world’s tallest moving observation tower opens for visitors
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Can Swarm Intelligence predict the Olympic winners?
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: $5 computers, cold-brew coffee makers, and more
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Watch these crawling drones weave a room
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MIT grads are out to prove the power of your inkjet with 3D-printing technology
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Augmented reality comes to neurosurgery with tech developed by Leica
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Rubik’s Spark gives the classic children’s toy an injection of new technology
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Here's all the tech that Luke Aikens used for that insane 25,000 foot skydive without a parachute
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IBM's "lab-on-a-chip" breakthrough brings ammo to the fight against cancer
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More than just a bell, this accessory makes your ordinary bike a smart bike
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Drone maker DJI is helping to stop rogue drones from spoiling the Olympics
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NASA releases cute Mars rover game to celebrate Curiosity anniversary
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At this restaurant the chef is a 3D printer
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Ain’t no party like a TechPop Party ’cause a TechPop party … is coming to a city near you!
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A mezzo-soprano singing with a quantum computer is 2016's craziest duet
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Amazing new 3D food printer concept shows how we'll be cooking our meals in 2020
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Geoscientist measures rocks to work out the immense energy in a lightning bolt
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Welcome to Area 404, the hardware lab where Facebook is building the future
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U.S. government approves first-ever moon landing for a private venture
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YouTube video pits freeze ray vs. flamethrower. Need we say more?
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U.S. Air Force says first F-35 jets are combat-ready, 15 years after effort began
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Playing ‘Pokémon Go’ with a drone is the most 2016 thing ever
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Like a glowing Etch-a-Sketch, LumoPad lets you draw with light
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'Revolutionary' QuadRKT drone can fly both vertically and horizontally
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You’ve been invited to design a 3D-printed tool for the International Space Station
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Theranos, under fire for mail-order blood testing, launches a box to do it at home
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Here boy! This robot suitcase will follow you around like a faithful dog
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Brit bar owner turns to old tech to get people off their phones and chatting again
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Hone your drone skills with a touch of Tron in this quadcopter arena
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Google gets the green light to test its delivery drones inside the US
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Bitcoin exchange loses more than $60 million in digital heist
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Doctor uses 3D printing to create hyper-accurate ear implants for kids
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Crowdsourced weather detector looks to do for weather what Waze does for traffic
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Everything you need to know about the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building
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Team uses 3D printing to save the life of injured goose named Victoria
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This auto-follow drone uses artificial intelligence to predict your next move
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Offshore buoy detects its first whale in waters along New York City
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DARPA wants a camera that can see around corners, and it’s coming soon
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Amazon’s smart noise-cancellation switch could literally be a lifesaver
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More life for Moore’s Law? Vortex laser may enable more powerful computers
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A clever brain hack lets you walk in VR forever, without hitting a wall
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New biodegradable nanoparticles detect and treat cancer, researchers say
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Graphene-embedded nanomaterial filters filthy water into drinking water