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How to unsend messages you’ve sent via Facebook and other apps
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How to unsend messages you’ve sent via Facebook and other apps

By Stan Horaczek

Engineering a better toilet could save millions of lives
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Engineering a better toilet could save millions of lives

By Eleanor Cummins

These synthetic canine cadavers help vets save real dogs
Environment

These synthetic canine cadavers help vets save real dogs

By Rob Verger

Setting up a secure private email server isn’t as hard as it sounds
DIY

Setting up a secure private email server isn’t as hard as it sounds

By David Nield

Here’s how an AI lie detector can tell when you’re fibbing
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Here’s how an AI lie detector can tell when you’re fibbing

By Rob Verger

Kids playing on phones and computers gaming ads
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Surprise! Kids’ apps are full of manipulative, unregulated advertising

By Eleanor Cummins

McLaren’s $2.4 million Speedtail hypercar can hit 250 miles per hour
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McLaren’s $2.4 million Speedtail hypercar can hit 250 miles per hour

By Jordan Golson

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Eight science policies at stake this Election Day

By Emily Mullin

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Not all Twitter bots are bad

By Eleanor Cummins

Credit card stolen or lost? Here’s what to do.
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Credit card stolen or lost? Here’s what to do.

By Whitson Gordon

The oldest weapons in North America offer a new view of prehistoric tech
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The oldest weapons in North America offer a new view of prehistoric tech

By Neel V. Patel

Wi-Fi could get much faster thanks to a proposed change in the wireless spectrum
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Wi-Fi could get much faster thanks to a proposed change in the wireless spectrum

By Rob Verger

Black widow spiders could teach nanomaterial experts a thing or two
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Black widow spiders could teach nanomaterial experts a thing or two

By Charlie Wood

Behind the supersonic rise and fall of the Concorde, 15 years after its final flight
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Behind the supersonic rise and fall of the Concorde, 15 years after its final flight

By Stefanie Waldek

Tim Cook says Apple supports general digital privacy laws in the U.S.
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Tim Cook says Apple supports general digital privacy laws in the U.S.

By Stan Horaczek

This ‘self-lubricating’ condom concept uses clever chemistry to stay slippery
Health

This ‘self-lubricating’ condom concept uses clever chemistry to stay slippery

By Rob Verger

Facebook’s new Messenger design is a rare simplification
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Facebook’s new Messenger design is a rare simplification

By Eleanor Cummins

Three artificial intelligence and tech tools trying to boost people’s mental health
Health

Three artificial intelligence and tech tools trying to boost people’s mental health

By Rob Verger

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Get ready for a lot more facial recognition at the airport

By Rob Verger

Adobe’s Project Brush Bounty uses AI to paint animation into static illustrations
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Adobe’s Project Brush Bounty uses AI to paint animation into static illustrations

By Stan Horaczek

Google Pixel 3 Phone
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Last week in tech: A gaggle of new Google gadgets, more info on the Facebook hack, and robot parkour

By Stan Horaczek

Finger phone
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Last week in tech: A massive hardware hack, new Microsoft devices, and concept cars

By Stan Horaczek

Facebook Hack
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Here’s how to find out if you were part of the latest Facebook hack

By Stan Horaczek

Underground living engineering escalator Earth
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Humans could survive underground, but it would take a lot more than shovels

By Eleanor Cummins

How to set up your home Wi-Fi
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How to set up your home Wi-Fi

By Jason Lederman

Here’s what happens when you turn off the microphones and cameras on Facebook’s Portal device
Gear

Here’s what happens when you turn off the microphones and cameras on Facebook’s Portal device

By Stan Horaczek

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Health

This wacky-looking font can help you remember what you read

By Eleanor Cummins

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Innovation, war, and glory: the soldier-scientist who unlocked the secrets of the Sahara

By Vince Beiser

All the cool new gadgets from Google’s Pixel 3 smartphone launch event
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All the cool new gadgets from Google’s Pixel 3 smartphone launch event

By Stan Horaczek

Hacking
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A running list of hacks, leaks, and vulnerabilities that have recently given up your personal information

By Popular Science Team

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The coolest concept cars from the 2018 Paris Motor Show

By Jordan Golson

Is your brain ready for YouTube’s new mini-player?
Health

Is your brain ready for YouTube’s new mini-player?

By Eleanor Cummins

This AI can help spot biased websites and false news
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This AI can help spot biased websites and false news

By Rob Verger

Here’s China’s massive plan to retool the web
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Here’s China’s massive plan to retool the web

By P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking

Live your best post-Zuckerberg life with these replacements for Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook
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Live your best post-Zuckerberg life with these replacements for Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook

By David Nield

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These tools helped scientists win the Nobel Prize

By Eleanor Cummins

Here’s what you need to know about today’s unavoidable Presidential Alert notification
Environment

Here’s what you need to know about today’s unavoidable Presidential Alert notification

By Stan Horaczek

GoPro’s new action camera fixes an annoying quirk with video stabilization
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GoPro’s new action camera fixes an annoying quirk with video stabilization

By Stan Horaczek

Thought-reading AI helps a person with quadriplegia play Guitar Hero
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Thought-reading AI helps a person with quadriplegia play Guitar Hero

By Charlie Wood

Facebook Security Issue
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A Facebook breach put 50 million accounts at risk: Here’s what you need to know

By Stan Horaczek

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Gmail now finishes your sentences, and the results are better than expected

By Eleanor Cummins

The Oculus Quest’s new feature is a crucial step for mainstream VR
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The Oculus Quest’s new feature is a crucial step for mainstream VR

By Rob Verger

Your city and home may not be ready for you to get old
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Your city and home may not be ready for you to get old

By Eleanor Cummins

2012 Renault Twizy
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A look back at the tiny cars that once ruled the road

By Jordan Golson

How to build a tabletop catapult
DIY

How to build a tabletop catapult

By Sophie Bushwick

Ferrari mixed retro racing design and a V12 engine in its limited-edition Monza cars
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Ferrari mixed retro racing design and a V12 engine in its limited-edition Monza cars

By Jordan Golson

plane oxygen masks
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When a plane loses pressure, here’s what happens to your body

By Sara Chodosh

The reclusive inventor of the Rubik’s Cube wants to do more than amuse you
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The reclusive inventor of the Rubik’s Cube wants to do more than amuse you

By Eleanor Cummins

A piece of blue fabric with electronics attached
Technology

Slipping into this ‘skin’ turns any object into a robot

By Kat Eschner

How to track product recalls
Health

How to track product recalls

By Eleanor Cummins

Super-recognizers help fight crime, but their powers remain mysterious
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Super-recognizers help fight crime, but their powers remain mysterious

By Eleanor Cummins

Twitter Timeline
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Twitter will let you see your feed in chronological order again—here’s how and why

By Stan Horaczek

Last week in tech: new iPhones
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Last week in tech: New iPhones, emergency text alerts, and the coming wave of gadget announcements

By Stan Horaczek

Rolls Royce built a silent isolation chamber in its Phantom luxury car
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Rolls Royce built a silent isolation chamber in its Phantom luxury car

By Jordan Golson

Sending wireless data 372 miles between two balloons takes really good aim
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Sending wireless data 372 miles between two balloons takes really good aim

By Rob Verger

book cover accessory to war
Science

The double-hinged door between astrophysics and the military

By Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang

a road at night
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Our street lighting doesn’t need to be this bad

By Rajaram Bhagavathula

Of course semi-automatic guns are deadlier. Here’s why scientists took so long to say so.
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Of course semi-automatic guns are deadlier. Here’s why scientists took so long to say so.

By Sara Chodosh

Last week in tech new iphones
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Last week in tech: New iPhones inbound, Twitter went to Congress, and Google turned 20

By Stan Horaczek

I became a cyborg to manage my chronic pain
Health

I became a cyborg to manage my chronic pain

By Janet Jay

Pennsylvania’s 9/11 memorial is one of the first in the world to use sound as a tribute
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Pennsylvania’s 9/11 memorial is one of the first in the world to use sound as a tribute

By Eleanor Cummins

Now we know what caused that plane ‘quarantine’ at JFK
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Now we know what caused that plane ‘quarantine’ at JFK

By Kat Eschner

Fitness trackers turn health into a game that users rarely win
Health

Fitness trackers turn health into a game that users rarely win

By Eleanor Cummins

Here’s what we learned from today’s Congressional committee meetings on social media
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Here’s what we learned from today’s Congressional committee meetings on social media

By Stan Horaczek

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