With video-recording sunglasses for teens, Snapchat aims to avoid the costly blunder made by Google Glass.

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From nuclear waste to non-biodegradable plastics, we’ve polluted our environment like never before. Is shooting our trash into the Sun an answer?

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You may know Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, and left his fortune to start the Nobel Prizes. But here are 3 things you might not know about his invention.

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When commentators write their obituaries of Tesla once the California carmaker has joined the thousands of carmakers that tried and failed to break into the moat surrounding global automakers, enlightened scribes will be sure to mention last Wednesday in Paris as the turning point in Tesla’s fortunes. At the Paris Motor Show, nearly every EU automaker announced immediate intentions to field an army of electric vehicles. Not because they suddenly want to wage war with tiny Tesla. Carmakers are in a race against the clock counting down the few years before extremely tough EU CO2 regulations come into effect. Tesla is bound to become collateral damage in a fight of EU OEMs against time and Brussels bureaucrats.

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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has been in the news recently for two things – the spectacular explosion during fueling of his Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 1, then a bold announcement this past week that he wants to send humans to Mars within 10 years, a pretty rosy forecast given the vast distance and technical difficulties involved.

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