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Who Owns Your Face? Welcome to a New World of Hacking Headaches

The question of who owns your face sounds absurd on the surface - of course you own it, it's attached to your body after all. But in an era of facial recognition technology, in which your face ...

From Saving Lives to Raining Candy: Drones Do a Lot of Good, Too

We haven't quite reached the predicted point at which drones become an intrinsic part of our daily lives, but small autonomous flying machines are learning how to do a lot more than spook people ...

Future War: 8 Terrifying Coming Advancements in Military Technology

The kind of military technology only imagined in sci-fi movies like Iron Man and Star Wars could be coming to an international conflict near you sometime in the very near future. As if missiles ...

I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That: ‘Flying Brain’ Will Assist Astronauts

What would Stanley Kubrick think? With its nonthreatening, simplistic stick figure face set in a spheroid plastic housing, CIMON the ‘flying brain’ is probably more analogous to GERTY, the ...

Houses to Human Hearts: 13 Recent Breakthroughs in 3D-Printed Designs

When 3D printers are widely accessible and affordable, will we see another industrial revolution, enabling us to manufacture just about everything we need on demand? Progress made in 3D printing ...

Hyperloop Hotel: Zoom from City to City in a Luxury Lodging Pod

Hyperloop transit is about to make the world a whole lot smaller, and with it could come a system of luxurious private pods outfitted like high-end hotel rooms so you can zoom from one city to ...

Sci-Fi to Reality: Giant Manned Robot Method-2 Has Taken Its First Steps

Looking and working remarkably like the robots in the 2009 movie Avatar, the 1.5-ton, 13-foot-tall ’METHOD-2’ by South Korean firm Hankook Mirae Technology has officially taken its first ...

Virtual Reality Nature: Helmet Lets Humans See the Forest Like Animals Do

Dragonflies experience their brief lives on this planet 10 times faster than humans, and in 12 color wavelengths as compared to our three, a viewpoint that’s been impossible to comprehend prior ...

Hoverboards are Here! Design Floats Above Metal Surfaces

Twenty-five years after 'Back to the Future' convinced an entire generation that we'd soon be able to zoom around the city on wheel-less floating skateboards, it looks like we might finally get ...

CityHome: Control This Smart House with a Wave of Your Hand

Two hundred square feet may sound absurdly small, even by New York standards, but what if you could make it feel three times larger with hidden furniture and other amenities that roll out and ...

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