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The Fight For The Fastest Supercomputer
Technology

The Fight For The Fastest Supercomputer

Who will get to exascale first—China or the U.S.?

How Technology Is Shaping The Future Of Language
Technology

How Technology Is Shaping The Future Of Language

A Q&A with linguist John McWhorter. Spoiler alert: He likes emoji!

Google Life Sciences And American Heart Association Grant $50 Million To Cure Heart Disease
Heart Disease

Google Life Sciences And American Heart Association Grant $50 Million To Cure Heart Disease

Can Google’s moonshot approach work for medicine?

Why Does A Fly Landing On Your Arm Make You Itch?
Health

Why Does A Fly Landing On Your Arm Make You Itch?

It's due to special receptors in your skin, and the discovery could lead to a cure to chronic itchiness

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Technology

This New App Sends Notes From Beyond the Grave

SafeBeyond allows a person to leave a virtual legacy after they’ve passed

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Drones

Counter-Terror Office Funds Tube-Launched Drone

Lockheed and loaded

Behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil
Technology

Cirque du Soleil Now Makes You a Part of the Show In Virtual Reality

Acrobatic training not required

High-Tech Glasses Can Treat Lazy Eye
Health

High-Tech Glasses Can Treat Lazy Eye

The first new treatment for the condition in 50 years

A New Way To Make Resistant Plants
Diseases

A New Way To Make Resistant Plants

A proof-of-concept experiment could lead to super-resistant crops

Think Tank Ponders The Future Of Post-War
Technology

Think Tank Ponders The Future Of Post-War

The worst outcome: We just sort of get used to long wars

New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Spots Reveal A Few More Secrets
Science Fiction

New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Spots Reveal A Few More Secrets

Still no Luke Skywalker in sight, but the film lands December 18th

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Social Media

The Selfie Of The Future Is A 3D Figure

Selfie 2.0

Two Billion People Rely On Snow For Drinking Water, And Supplies Are Melting
Environment

Two Billion People Rely On Snow For Drinking Water, And Supplies Are Melting

Let's hope for a white Christmas

Senate Votes To Legalize Space Mining
Space

Senate Votes To Legalize Space Mining

One step closer to owning pieces of asteroids?

How We’ve Succeeded In Breaching The Blood-Brain Barrier At Last
Medicine

How We’ve Succeeded In Breaching The Blood-Brain Barrier At Last

For the first time, researchers have made a drug that can cross this barrier. Just how big a deal is that?

Hyperloop Tech CEO Rob Lloyd and CTO Brogan BamBrogan
Vehicles

Hyperloop Tech CEO Predicts The Hyperloop Could Become Reality by 2020

Even without direct involvement from Elon Musk

Microsoft’s Huge Update Could Bring Artificial Intelligence To Your Apps
AI

Microsoft’s Huge Update Could Bring Artificial Intelligence To Your Apps

One new program can identify human feelings

Nearby ‘Venus Twin’ Could Be Clue To Finding Inhabited Planets
Exoplanets

Nearby ‘Venus Twin’ Could Be Clue To Finding Inhabited Planets

So close we might even be able to measure its wind speeds, GJ 1132b is a very important exoplanet

This Startup Wants To Put The ‘Medical’ Back In Marijuana
Health

This Startup Wants To Put The ‘Medical’ Back In Marijuana

Potbotics wants to give patients better information, but can they when the science is limited?

Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin’ Flying Wings
Space

Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin’ Flying Wings