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Check out Hyperloop One’s first full-scale test track in the Nevada desert

Hyperloop One has just unveiled its first full-scale test track in the Nevada desert. It plans to conduct a public trial by July 2017.
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Watch Land Rover’s search and rescue SUV launch infrared-equipped drones

The latest Land Rover is designed to give search and rescue teams a pair of eyes in the sky without the typical launch time.
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Unlock your kids’ inner game builders with LittleBits’ Code Kit

LittleBits' Code Kit focuses on having kids build hands-on games with blocks, and then programming them to fruition via the LittleBits app.
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The WebMD skill for Amazon’s Alexa can answer all your medical questions

WebMD, the popular medical resource on the web, is making its way to Amazon's Alexa voice assistant. It's live now.
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Kuri is now better than ever at recognizing faces, responding to spoken commands

Kuri, the cute little smart home robot from Bosch-backed Mayfield Robotics, is getting improved facial and voice recognition via an update.
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Carvon's next-gen electric skateboards boast all-wheel drive, can hit 35 mph

Carvon has been player in the electric skateboard game for five years, but it's raising the bar with its latest generation of boards.
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Jeff Bezos offers a sneak peek at Blue Origin’s newest rocket engine

Blue Origin is building a new engine for its awesome New Glenn rocket, and CEO Jeff Bezos just offered a sneak peek of the very first one.
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Oreo flies five ‘cookie drones’ over New York City in a wacky milk-dunk stunt

Monday marked the 105th anniversary of the Oreo cookie and to celebrate, the brand performed a wacky milk-dunk stunt in New York City.
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Traversing the links just got a whole lot more fun thanks to the Golfboard

Enjoyment in golf comes from each swing, not from the traveling between strokes. The GolfBoard changes that by making the traveling fun.
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Cassette Tape Coffee Table will satisfy '80s nostalgia without breaking the bank

A startup called Taybles is offering its line of cassette tape-shaped coffee tables with fewer features and at a big discount.
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Groundbreaking new polymer sponge is designed specifically for cleaning up oil spills in the ocean

A new material is capable of not only absorbing up to 90 times its own weight in oil, but also being reused time and time again.
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Nanoengineers develop first biocompatible, 3D-printed blood vessel networks

A team of nanoengineers from UC San Diego have developed a new method for 3D printing biomimetic blood vessel networks.
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‘Liquid glass’ promises to protect your phone from bumps and scratches

ProtectPax, a new crowdfunding project, promises to protect your smartphone's screen from scissors, nail files, car keys, and other objects.
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As legal weed sweeps the nation, startups race to make a breathalyzer for marijuana

These two developed their own technology for forthcoming marijuana breathalyzers mainly intended to identify stoned drivers.
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Scientists figure out a way to correct a robot's mistakes via brain waves

Scientists at MIT and Boston have developed a system that uses EEG human brain-activity data to correct a robot’s mistakes in real time.
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Robot enters record books for lightning quick Rubik’s Cube solution

A robot's Rubik's Cube record has just been officially recognized after it completed the popular puzzle in a mere 0.637 seconds.
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IBM plans to build the first commercially available universal quantum computer

IBM has announced plans to launch the world's first commercially available universal quantum computer as part of the IBM Q initiative.
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Smart workbenches, cosmic fidget toys, and more

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The TetraBIN wants to make throwing things away fun

Meet the TetraBIN from Sencity, a connected trash can that actually gamifies the act of creating garbage so you stop littering.
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Weekly Rewind: The best of MWC, Samsung’s latest scandal, and a tattling teddy bear

In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of this week's top 10 tech stories.
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Dad 3D-printed arm prosthesis for his kid, now wants to share it with the world

When baby Sol Ryan had to have his lower left arm amputated, his dad developed a 3D-printed hydraulic arm to help him. Now he's sharing it.
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Jeff Bezos plans a moon base, a moon walk, and an Amazon-like cargo service

If Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is anything at all, it's ambitious, and his latest endeavor aims to take two of his companies to the moon.
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Got an old Instamatic? This 3D-printed adapter will convert it to 35mm

Film photography may be coming back, but many films are hard to find -- that's where a 3D printer comes in.
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‘Nano-warming’ technique could help eliminate organ transplant waiting lists

A massive number of possible transplant organs are wasted each year. A new nano-warming process could help change all that.
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Check out Windows 98 running on a smart ‘watch’ powered by Raspberry Pi

The 314Reactor electronics project blog has a post detailing how a user created a wearable running the ancient Windows 98 operating system.
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Researchers retrieve short film and a full operating system from strands of DNA

A team of researchers from Colombia University have stored a computer operating system and short film on strands of DNA.
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Your sleep tracker may actually disturb your sleep, study suggests

A new case series suggests that sleep trackers may induce sleep problems rather than improving sleep patterns.
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Virginia is for lovers — and now, legalized delivery robots, too

400 years ago, it was home to the first permanently settled English colony, and now, it is home to the first legal delivery robots.
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Scientists engineer a rose that can store and releases electrical energy

Scientists in Sweden have developed a method of turning roses into supercapacitors, capable of holding energy in their stems.
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This company will 3D print you a house anywhere you want it

Rather than assembling pieces printed elsewhere together, Apis Cor has created the first 3D-printed house using a mobile printer on-site.
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By hijacking FM radio signals, we can have singing posters, talking shirts

New method for embedding audio and data in regular FM radio signals ushers in an age of singing posters and talking shirts.
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DIYer’s air cannon can fire a Nerf dart right through an empty aluminum can

Remember the time you shot your kid brother in the face with a Nerf gun? You're lucky you didn't have this DIY Nerf air cannon at home.
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17-year-old uses deep learning to program AI cars that race around in your browser

17 year old student Jan Hünermann has used deep learning neural networks to program AI cars which race around a map in your web browser.
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Latest Snap leak suggests the Spectacles designer is considering a 360 camera

Snap Inc. now calls itself a camera company and a 360 option could be on its radar next, along with a potential drone.