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Apple enlists the help of home builders to preinstall its HomeKit in new homes

Employing the help of three nationwide home builders, Apple announced at this year's WWDC that its HomeKit system will be built-in to newly built homes.
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Innit wants to make cooking a delicious meal as easy as pushing a button

Innit, a tech startup that's raised $25 million, wants to make cooking a delicious meal as easy as pushing a button.
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Russian robot escapes from lab, disrupts traffic, causes chaos in the streets

A robot called Promobot this week escaped and caused havoc with local traffic as a result.
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Project Soli isn’t in wearables yet, but these guys used it to create invisible violin

The talented folks at Design I/O have created the world's smallest violin using Google Soli and some smart machine learning.
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Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company Blue Origin is going to livestream its next rocket launch

On Friday, Blue Origin will show their rocket launch on a live webcast for the first time. Bezos tweeted the announcement on Monday.
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To finally conquer speakers, Samsung built this secretive sonic skunkworks

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Trust us, this video of 15 different sorting algorithms is way more entertaining than it sounds

PhD student Timo Bingmann has created an amazing video showing sorting algorithms in action. And it's surprisingly awesome!
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The Gvido is the Kindle for sheet music that musicians have been waiting for

Someone has finally made a Kindle for sheet music, and it's called the Gvido -- a dual-screen E Ink device that will keep your digital scores organized.
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The International Space Station’s new low-gravity 3D printer just printed its first tool

Astronauts on the ISS are putting their first zero-gravity capable 3D printer to good use.
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Developing film at home is about to get a whole lot easier with the Osiris F1

At roughly the size of an all-in-one home printer, this automated film processor sits on your desk and is capable of developing all kinds of analog film.
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Boeing's solar-powered airplane looks ridiculous, but it might just be crazy enough to work

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North Korea may have stolen U.S. fighter jet blueprints in a recent cyberattack

North Korean hackers are said to have stolen "tens of thousands of documents related to the defense industry — including U.S. fighter jet designs."
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Snap a photo of your meal and this AI-powered startup will tell you how many calories it contains

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There are no jobs on Mars yet, but NASA’s recruiting posters are ready for you

NASA's recruiting posters at the Kennedy Space Center for people to join the Martian Corps are now available to download and print for personal use.
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LIquidPiston’s tiny but powerful rotary engine could usher in a new era for drones

LiquidPiston's X Mini engine hopes to pick up where the rotary engine left off.
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‘Owl’ is a kid-focused app that turns fitness into a game

Owl, a new fitness band on Kickstarter, attempts to get kids active by rewarding steps and activities with points.
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NASA offers $500K to anyone who can grow lifelike human tissue for space experiments

NASA hopes to study this tissue in an effort to make deep space travel safer and save astronauts from extreme experimentation.
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India aims for a record by launching 22 satellites on a single rocket

Scheduled to launch from Sriharikota barrier islands on June 20, the rocket will deliver American, Indian, Canadian, and German satellites into orbit
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Enthusiasts can now expect the first electric Harley-Davidson to arrive in 2021

Harley-Davidson toured Europe and the U.S. with its LiveWire electric concept bike, gathering feedback. The first production bikes will be here in 5 years.
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France is building the world’s biggest automated meteor-spotting network

FRIPON is a massive camera network across France, designed to track down meteorites
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KitSplit, the Airbnb of the photo industry, is expanding

Need a camera, drone or VR gear? KitSplit now offers peer-to-peer gear rentals in four major cities.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch didn’t go quite the way it was planned

SpaceX launched its latest Falcon 9 rocket today. It wound up more sore than soaring.
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Will this clever kit put an end to our wireless charging woes?

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No Apple TV? No problem — your iPad can serve as a smart home hub too

Minimalism is the name of the game in design these days, so if you're looking to declutter your home, just use your iPad as a smart home hub.
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Man builds 100mpg engine using 200-year-old technology

Josh “Mac” MacDowell took a 200-year-old Stirling engine, added some 21st-century technology and created a Hybrid electric car capable of 100MPG.
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Aliens have probably once existed, according to leading astrophysicists

Frank’s piece, titled, “Yes, There Have Been Aliens,” argues that, at some point before humans existed, there were probably aliens.
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Europe accelerates startup accelerators, while US remains on cruise control

More new startup accelerators opened in Europe last year than in North America. They are increasingly seen as essential entrepreneurial training grounds.
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NASA just set fire to a cargo ship in space

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Dallas, Texas may be next on the list of cities getting Google Fiber

Google may soon grace Dallas, Texas, with its Fiber internet service if all goes according to plan.
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Astronomers want to deploy 5,000 tiny robots to help build a 3D map of the universe

Berkeley Lab has come up with a way to use robots to create a 3D map of the universe.
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Students’ homemade Raspberry Pi 3D scanner turns light paintings into holograms

A new 3D hologram-making technique combines light painting, stop motion, and hyperlapse that results in a 360-degree mirage.
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12 beautiful apps that just won Apple design awards

Apple has announced the winners for the 2016 design awards, and boy are there some beautiful apps on show this year.
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$28 device adds physical Photoshop controls through a USB port

BrushKnob takes keyboard shortcuts to the next level with an affordable, physical Photoshop dial.
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Boston teens introduce smart shade for fighting seasonal affective disorder

A group of Boston teens from Cambridge's NuVu Studio have created the Smile Shade, a sunlamp-slash-smart shade that fights seasonal affective disorder.