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Apple's 'spaceship' campus looks like a futuristic, solar-powered fortress in...
A number of drone videos have captured the construction of the new UFO-style Apple Campus 2, but this latest video is the best look we've had yet. The new video, captured by YouTube user Sexton...
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Rising need for nursery, indoor and vertical farming
To meet rising food demands from a growing global population, over 250 million acres of arable land will be needed – about 20% more land than all of Brazil. Alternatively, agricultural production will...
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Bioprinting Is One Step Closer to Making a Human Kidney
Bioprinting has been all over the news in the past several years with headline-worthy breakthroughs like printed human skin, synthetic bones, and even a fully functional mouse thyroid gland. 3D...
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Harry Potter fans create a fully-functioning smart wand
In the Harry Potter series, a Muggle is a person who lacks any sort of magical ability. Growing up reading these books, one can only imagine what it would be like to cast spells using a wand. Well,...
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While we don’t think this qualifies as a “fail”, it’s certainly not a triumph. But that’s what happens when you notice something funny and start to investigate: if you’re lucky, it ends with “Eureka!”,...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Nobody does more lasting good for the Internet with less. Every penny you donate makes change for the better." Get a selection of EFF's best stickers on slick brushed chrome. Support digital freedom...
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Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a...
When I was growing up, in segregated South Carolina, African-American role models in national life were few and far between. Later, when my fellow flight students and I, in training at the Naval Air...
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Here's What 150 Experts Say About the Future of Robotics
Some of the top minds in the field have some advice for the next presidential administration on how to proceed with robotics. Last week, a group of 150 experts from Google, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin,...
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‘Westworld’ and the Moral Dilemma of Cyborgs
The mathematician Norbert Wiener founded the science of cybernetics in 1948 with a warning that has become a cornerstone of futurist writing. The computer age was still in its infancy when he cautioned...
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The trials and tribulations of drug discovery
The many pitfalls medicinal chemists face when creating a new drug The path to a new drug is never straight and never well-marked. Many types of expertise are needed along the way, and every project...
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New battery tech lasts for days, charges in seconds
Scientists from the University of Central Florida (UCF) have created a supercapacitor battery prototype that works like new even after being recharged 30,000 times. The research could yield...
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Owner of Canadian medical journals publishes fake research for cash
The new owner of two prominent chains of Canadian medical journals is publishing fake research for cash, and pretending it is genuine. OMICS International, based in Hyderabad, India, had a reputation...
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Let’s hope Trump does what he says regarding robots and robotics
by Frank Tobe Business & Finance Views November 23, 2016 In President-elect Trump’s interview with the NY Times yesterday, when discussing jobs, closed factories and factories that may leave the...
View ArticleWhat if jobs are not the solution but the problem? – James Livingston
Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We’ve also believed...
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Hospital to get first dedicated 3D tissue-printing facility
You still can't get a 3D-printed liver transplant made from your own cells, but an Australian hospital is trying to push the tech into the mainstream. The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in...
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Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries
EnergyOne problem with dealing with nuclear waste is that it's often hard to tell what's waste and what's a valuable resource. Case in point is the work of physicists and chemists at the University of...
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Let’s get together and give back today #OPENCYBERMONDAY #CyberMonday...
Hey folks, during the fury of deals and more for CyberMonday, we wanted to point to some open-source hardware / software and groups that could use our collective support too. While the credit card is...
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Celebrate Open Source With Us on Cyber Monday with #Opencybermonday
This time of year it is easy to get swept up in the purchasing frenzy that comes from Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s nothing wrong with loving a good deal, but this also presents us with the...
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VoiceBot101
Add the following snippet to your HTML: gov A voice controlled, arduino101 based mobile robot DifficultyIntermediatePublishedNovember 26, 2016LicenseGPL3+I made oneHardware components:Software apps and...
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