Tech
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1920s Marseille, London, And Tokyo Shine In Newly Restored And Upscaled Footage
Photos and videos are really like rudimentary time machines, capturing moments that we can carry with us into the future.…
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Storing the Future: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
As Spongebob Squarepants might say, the end is coming. Well, maybe. In 2012, with the apparent end of the Mayan…
Scientists Continue Doing Weird Things With Video Games
What’s the very first video game you remember playing? For me, I have vague memories of Pitfall! on the Atari…
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Engineered Arts Unveils Ameca, the ‘Most Advanced Humanoid Robot’
UK-based robot design company Engineered Arts recently unveiled what they’re calling “the future face of robotics” — a full-size humanoid…
This Year, Cat Robots Began Delivering Food At Restaurants
Will 2021 be remembered as the year of the cat-themed food robot? Maybe. This year, a number of restaurants in…
Researchers Create Holograms You Can Touch — And Smell?
Holograms. They’re staples of science fiction and weird 1990s arcade cabinets. But how much longer will we have to wait…
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Scientists Create World’s Tiniest Flying Microchip
A team of scientists at Northwestern University in Illinois have designed the world’s smallest flying structure in the form of…
AI-Sourced Patents A No-Go (For Now), Says U.S. Judge
If you happen to be an inventor and an artificial intelligence, you might want to hold off on attempting to…
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Tesla’s New Humanoid Robot Is Named Optimus
Here’s the full reveal of Tesla’s latest prototype of the future: A humanoid robot (or ‘Tesla Bot’) named Optimus. The…
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Japanese Basketball Robot Shows Off During USA-France Halftime
I’m a bit late to the party on the Olympics front, but here’s a video of a Japanese basketball robot…