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Emerging Tech News Archive
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Meet Salto, the most hyperactive one-legged jumping robot you’ll ever see
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Magnetic implants in the eye socket could help cure 'dancing eyes'
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Space junk is no match for NASA’s new gecko-inspired space janitor
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The first of Elon Musk’s ‘Boring’ tunnels should be ready to go by next week
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Scientists create a circuit board that self-destructs when cooled
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Smartoo lets travelers turn their suitcase into a smart desk for their laptop
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This battery-free LED bike light uses magnets as a power source
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Ingenious bandage seals up wounds without stitches, promotes scar-free healing
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Train like an astronaut in world’s first private facility
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First, lab-grown reptile skin — next, mutant ninja turtles?
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Boaty McBoatface is back with data from the ocean’s freezing abyss
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Frighteningly accurate ‘mind reading’ AI reads brain scans to guess what you’re thinking
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Mind-blowing ultrasonic 'printer' uses lasers and high-frequency sound to assemble electronics
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Underwater telecommunication is hard, but engineers just made a huge breakthrough
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Sea anemone genes could spur advancements in regenerative medicine
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Carnegie Mellon’s smart projector blurs the line between physical and digital desktops
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Oscar Mayer’s ‘Wienerdrone’ is raining hot dogs on customers
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Geneticists are developing heat-resistant 'cows of the future' to deal with Earth’s rising climate
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Next-gen wearable devices might sip your sweat, use it to generate electricity
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Faces generated with neural networks are the trippiest thing you’ll see all day
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Seed-bombing drone startup aims to plant one billion trees per year
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Scientists just powered on a laser that's 1 billion times brighter than the sun
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New app gets rescuers to cardiac arrest victim three minutes ahead of ambulance
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ESA’s new plan for cleaning space debris uses a magnetic space tug
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Virtual reality headset claims to diagnose concussions in just one minute
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MIT algorithm tells you how to fold any shape imaginable with origami
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Using satellites and solar power, education portal brings teachers to refugee camps
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The 'e-Mosquito' is a wearable that sucks your blood … for your own good
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Cozmo visual Code Lab makes robotics programmers out of kids
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SpaceX just sent up two rockets in 48 hours — and landed them again
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Artificial intelligence genius Andrew Ng has another AI project in the works
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Coder’s algorithmic alphabet is nothing more than gibberish, but it looks real
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European Space Agency's new LISA mission will measure gravitational waves in space
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Whose shell is this? Neuroscientists selectively wipe specific snail memories
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Airless, 3D-printed concept tires can’t go flat, never need replacement
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Crisp Clothing uses artificial intelligence to make a shirt that fits perfectly
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Look out, Kevin Bacon! The EU’s tunneling robot looks like a worm from 'Tremors'
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Amazon’s proposed ‘Drone Towers’ would look and sound like giant beehives
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See Apple’s massive ‘spaceship’ campus take off in 18 seconds
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Bright light pulses bamboozle mosquitoes, could help fight malaria
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These freaky VR sex dummies pose some dark questions about the future
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Ironing robot is here to steal the job you never wanted anyway
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You wouldn’t want to meet these robot sumo wrestlers in a dark alley
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If you can't view August's total solar eclipse, NASA has a treat for you
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Visio is a powerful mobile image projector that could be an artist’s dream
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Health-monitoring SensiVest can see through your chest and into your lungs
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Emotion-reading doll is a somewhat creepy example of what’s possible with AI
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Sony’s kid-focused robotics kit blurs the line between toy and teacher
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Sphero’s new spinoff company may aim to put a butler droid in every home
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Google's DeepMind is expanding the scope of its healthcare effort
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Andy Rubin-backed Meeting Owl is a smart 360 camera for the boardroom
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Disney may let guests throw Captain America’s shield at bad guys in VR
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These drones use Wi-Fi to see through brick walls
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Creative AI makes epic dinosaur art by cleverly arranging pictures of flowers
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Heart disease treatment fights health problems with … photosynthesis?
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Neuroscience research suggests human brains think in 11 different dimensions
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First dual-nozzle 3D-printing pen lets you draw in three dimensions faster
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VR rock climbing simulator could help people face their fear of heights
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Las Vegas is about to get its first bar where robots mix the drinks
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Sweden’s Museum of Failure celebrates tech’s biggest flops
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Would you pay to test your pet's poop? This Californian company hopes so
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Scientists to deploy ‘SnotBots’ to capture and analyze whale blow
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Pikaka wallet’s new anti-degaussing feature protects your magnetized cards
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Horizontal lines make it almost impossible to count the Jubilee’s decks
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New pasteurization alternative sanitizes milk without killing good bacteria
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Spider robots made from drinking straws? That's the latest from Harvard
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Watching this mind-bending projection mapping demo will melt your brain
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A 72-rotor flying machine is the most terrifying way to commute to work ever
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Drones have been used in more than a dozen smuggling attempts to prisons
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Luxury apartments on wheels may keep you from ever going home
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New algorithm predicts how faces can change, could help find missing persons
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Harnessing magnetic fields could allow phones, cars to charge on the move
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Five-finger discount: The U.K. government is giving bionic hands to amputees
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Virtual reality can make a trip to the dentist visit less painful, study says
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Marimba-playing robot uses deep-learning AI to compose and perform its own music
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This amazing party was staged to debut an even more amazing yacht
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We could soon be painting our houses with ‘solar paint’ for clean energy
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These 7 quake-resistant buildings are designed to withstand the next big shockwave
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As climate change warms the world, Norway's doomsday seed vault needs a major redesign
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New ‘hoverboard’ offers more practical features, less spontaneous combustion
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Scientists may have found a safer way to tan, minus the cancer risk
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Study finds ecigs may cause as much DNA damage as unfiltered cigarettes
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SkyX plans remote charging stations that will give drones near-indefinite range
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RadioShack’s liquidation auction is both a sad coda and an odd treasure trove
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DARPA technology can now be used to save elephants from gunfire
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Solar-powered Roomba-style robot drives around your garden pulling weeds
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Forget ambulances — Sweden is testing defibrillator-equipped first responder drones
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Algorithm predicts when someone is at risk of suicide with 92 percent accuracy
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Anova Nano Precision Cooker is now available for pre-order for under $90
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Text messages can be as good as medication for helping control diabetes
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Robot 'row bots' help scientists determine the most efficient way to row a boat
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Artist re-creates the birthplace of artificial intelligence
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Wearable system with 3D camera makes visually impaired people more mobile
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Awesome 3D-printed holographic display lets you play 'Snake' in 3 dimensions
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Move over, quadcopters! A hexacopter could be the most versatile drone yet
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Scientists use a supercomputer to build a simulation of the known universe
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Space oddity: Flatworm sent into orbit returns to Earth with an extra head
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If you need an extra hand (or two), these wearable limbs can help you out
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Sanlorenzo’s SX88 yacht is designed for people who like open-space living
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Like a robot jigsaw puzzle, modular bots snap together to carry out tasks
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It sounds impossible, but physicists created a magnet that is one atom thick
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With a hybrid gas/electric motor, Surefly is like a flying Prius (but way cooler)
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New ‘synthetic tongue’ can best whisky sommeliers at guessing your Scotch
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Biodegradable microbeads are here to (hopefully) cut down on ocean pollution
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Self-navigating cargo ships are coming to an ocean near you
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Tap any location and this interactive globe will display photos you took there
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Shocking discovery shows that zapping your brain can boost creativity
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This 19th-century ‘dandy horse’ throwback bike is a hipster’s dream come true
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AI may beat humans at everything in 45 years, experts predict
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United Nations summit seeks to save humanity with artificial intelligence
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Alphabet's air traffic control can pave the way for proper drone deliveries
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Here’s a stylish pollution mask city dwellers might actually want to wear
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Tallest all-wood building in the U.S. approved for construction
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Adversarial robots use game theory to improve at grabbing objects
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The bedbugs won’t bite thanks to this smart IoT track-and-trap device
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Gotta catch ’em all? Not with Biem, the first app-based STD testing service
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Custom 3D-printed popsicles may be the best use of technology, ever
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MIT and Harvard's biosensing tattoos will change color when you're dehydrated
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World's first battery-free pacemaker gets its power from microwaves
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Ingenious RC lawn mower lets you trim your grass without leaving your chair
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Gesture-recognition system can translate sign language into text — and back again
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Astronomers just discovered a huge planet that’s hotter than most stars
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This backpack doubles as a briefcase, and is immune to thieves
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Space station captures Dragon capsule for second time, making history
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Google’s Street View cars are now measuring pollution, and here’s the first map
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Human faces can be accurately recreated from monkey brain signals
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Walmart’s new VR training program sounds like a bad ‘Black Mirror’ episode
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Physicians try to determine how astronauts will handle outer space medical emergencies
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Huge collection of Carl Sagan’s personal correspondence up for auction
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Will the future of electric vehicles include instantly rechargeable batteries?
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Conductive ‘Electro Dough’ is a must-have toy for any young engineer
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These robotic shorts will improve your running performance
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Get to the cool ocean play areas quicker than the other guy with the Aeroboat S6
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SpaceX triumphs with its first-ever launch of a recycled cargo ship
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It sounds impossible, but this 3D printer can create objects that are longer than itself
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This drone can travel long distances by stopping to recharge in lakes
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Here are 6 jumbo jets that look tiny next to Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch plane
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Watch a giant, star-spangled mech destroy a Prius, because ‘Murica
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Startup uses Amazon Dash tech to enable customized one-touch tasks
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Scientists extract genetic data from a mummy — and don’t plan to clone it
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German engineers’ nanoscale filtration system filters the tiniest of particles
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The extraordinary ‘Stratolaunch’ is the largest airplane you’ve ever seen
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Walmart invites its employees to deliver packages to customers’ homes
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No signal? No problem — this drone acts as a mobile cellular base station
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You’re not hallucinating. That dolphin really is using a huge underwater tablet
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This impressive arm robot figures out how best to stack oddly shaped rocks
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Massive telescope will let us gaze deeper into the galaxy than ever before
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Forget pizza — a drone just delivered donuts to the mayor of Denver