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Criminals are holding back some of the world's most revolutionary tech

It's hard being a Bitcoin supporter when criminals are constantly damaging the digital currency's reputation with their illicit activities, but like it or not, they come with the package. A...

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Richard Stallman: Police body cams should turn on automatically

Body cameras have become an important topic of discussion amid the string of police brutality cases we've seen over the past year or two, and Richard Stallman has his own...

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Why did Facebook build a Boeing 737-sized solar-powered drone?

Facebook may have abandoned its attempts to bring affordable Internet access to the masses using special satellites, but now the company is trying to do the same thing using solar-powered drones instead. Known as...

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Google's self-driving vehicle chief dismisses safety concerns

Self-driving vehicles don't need to be perfectly safe to be successful, they just need to safer than human drivers. Even so, concerns have been raised over the recent batch of...

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Tesla and Xiaomi top MIT's list of the world's smartest companies

The editors of MIT Technology Review have compiled a list of what they consider to be the smartest companies in the world right now, and unsurprisingly, technology companies dominate the...

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These implants could help us unlock the secrets of the human brain

What better way to map people's brains than to inject them with electronic implants?! Ok, so it's a bit more complicated than that, but deciphering brain signals and unlocking the...

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Amazon is investing in a future where robots replace human workers

Amazon doesn't plan on replacing human workers with robots anytime soon, but that's simply because technology hasn't progressed to the point where robots are as efficient as humans in many...

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Microsoft is creating HoloLens content in a holographic TV studio

Companies like Oculus VR and Samsung are betting big on virtual reality, but Microsoft is one of the only companies shooting for something even better: augmented reality. Instead of creating...

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Researchers may have just developed artificial photosynthesis

The sun is a natural source of energy for much of the life on our planet, and while we have ways of turning that energy into usable electricity, we've haven't...

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Simply using your smartphone could become a new type of password

Fingerprint scanning is great and all, but we're not done searching for an alternative to traditional passwords that's both easier to use and more secure. A new research project known...

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