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How to automate job searches and find work faster

Looking for a job? Check out this article to learn how to automate job searches. This way, you'll spend less time searching and more time actually applying.
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Criminal profiling tech can pin down your background based entirely on your voice

Speech recognition algorithms are helping law enforcement determine an astonishing number of details about people based entirely on samples of their voice.
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World's highest-flying glider set to become a game-changing weather station

The Perlan 2 glider is ready to ride the stratospheric waves in the Andes mountains, soaring to world record heights and recording valuable weather data.
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Researchers develop always-on camera that only responds to certain gestures

Smartphone, smartwatch, and, now, smart camera? A group from Georgia Tech is developing a camera that responds to certain gestures.
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New AI program could help drones avoid flying over big crowds

A start-up company is looking to make drone flight safer through artificial intelligence that identifies hazardous weather and even crowds of people.
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I, for one, welcome our new automated robot overlords

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Solving the world's biggest challenges with AI could net you a cool $3 million

The IBM Watson AI Xprize wants you to solve the world's biggest challenges using artificial intelligence. And it's promising a pretty great prize.
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Rwandan entrepreneur uses solar phone-charging carts to create jobs in Africa

African Renewable Energy Distributor uses solar phone-charging kiosks in Rwanda to provide jobs and help smartphone users with no access to electricity.
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Just for kicks: this robot will absolutely destroy you in a game of foosball

A robot developed at the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is capable of competing against -- and beating -- humans at foosball.
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Cyber war: British army goes high-tech with futuristic drones and VR headsets

Laser and dragonfly drones are coming to the British military, thanks to a new 800 million pound investment fund for future technologies.
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You can make a bionic hand out of a Keurig, and that’s not all

DIY genius Evan Booth just turned a Keurig K350 coffee machine into a working bionic hand. Seriously.
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Lightweight infrared camera technology to help uncover what's unknown about our moon

Lightweight IR camera technology will allow a new mini satellite to photograph the moon from up close. If the first mission is successful, Mars is next.
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The U.S. Air Force wants to detonate plasma bombs in the sky

The U.S. Air Force's "go big or go home" solution to improving long-distance calls? Detonate plasma bombs attached to tiny satellites.
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This crazy inventor just built — and tried out — a huge 360-degree swing in his yard

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Time-lapse offers glimpse inside the cockpit when landing at London City Airport

With only 27 British Airways pilots qualified to make the landing into London City Airport, not many get to see the view from the cockpit – until now.
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Newly developed 3-minute saliva test could help cops determine if you're driving while high

A new sensor-based saliva test can tell within three minutes whether the driver of a car has been abusing marijuana.
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Every page of this book is a complex mechanical puzzle you must solve

An immensely intricate wooden puzzle book, Codex Silenda is packed with unique mechanical puzzles.
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Nike Wing precision sunglasses are lightweight and priced at a hefty $1,200

At an eye-watering $1,200, the Nike Wing is what you’ll see worn by select athletes at the Olympic games in Rio.
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3D printing used to create prosthetic hand for an 8-year-old boy

An eight-year-old British boy named William Joyner, who was born without a left hand, recently received a 3D-printed robotic prosthesis.
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China is developing a hypersonic space plane that makes the Space Shuttle look primitive

China is moving to the forefront of the space race with a space plane that'll go from runway to orbit and back down again at hypersonic speeds.
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There's a startup offering $1M in liability insurance to drone pilots for just $10 per hour

Verifly is a new on-demand drone insurance provider that gives you $1,000,000 in coverage for as little as $10 per hour.
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'Bed of nails' surface material tears apart bacteria, leaves animal cells intact

The black silicon material is covered in nanoscopic spikes designed to tip apart bacteria while leaving animal cells intact
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Budding VR filmmakers, GoPro’s six-camera 360-degree rig is finally ready to ship

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Adidas robots are coming to Atlanta to make your next pair of sneakers

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You can pre-order the Blocks modular smartwatch for $60 off right now

The Blocks Smartwatch could revolutionize how we buy products. That's because this modular smartwatch was designed to be upgraded and tweaked.
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GE installs advanced sensors to monitor an active volcano

GE is using advanced sensors to monitor an active volcano, and they are sharing the whole expedition on social media with Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
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Smartphones could soon be nearly bezel-less thanks to these LCD displays

Japan Display Inc. is showing off a 5.5-inch display that's a "Full Active" LCD -- meaning there are almost no bezels all around the screen.
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Passenger caught with loaded 3D-printed gun in carry-on luggage

TSA officers expected a routine confiscation when they detected gun in a passenger's carry-on bag at the Reno airport, but they were wrong.
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Google's smart bathroom patent puts sensors in your toilet, tub, and mirror

Google has filed a patent for a smart bathroom concept that includes sensors being placed in the user's toilet, bathtub, and mirror.
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BMW set to make Amazon’s Alexa your back-seat driver this fall

Sometime "later this year," BMW says, you'll be able to do quite a bit with your BMW with nothing but your voice and Amazon Alexa.
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Tiny ‘neural dust’ sensors may help scientists monitor your nerves in real time

UC Berkeley engineers say the "neural dust" is the first device of its kind that monitors neural activity in living animals.
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Otterbox’s Universe case turns your iPhone into a jack of all trades

Otterbox's latest iPhone 6S case turns your phone into a jack of all trades with nifty modules that snap onto the case. We review the Otterbox Universe.
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This startup is launching a 360 cam into space so we can see Earth in VR

SpaceVR wants to bring the universe to your living room and may do so in 2017 when it launches its first virtual reality camera satellite into orbit.
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Don't blame the Soviets: The Sun almost started World War III, study finds

From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the U-2 spy plane incident and a computer glitch at the NORAD Command Post, the world seemed on the brink of destruction.