Japan just tried to launch the world’s smallest orbital rocket
Were it to have succeeded, the SS-520 would have become the smallest rocket to ever deliver a payload into orbit. Alas, the rocket did not make it.

January 16, 2017 at 03:56PM
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Trump’s Data Firm Snags RNC Tech Guru Darren Bolding
Darren Bolding, the chief technology officer of the Republican National Committee is moving to the data science firm that helped win Trump the election.

January 16, 2017 at 09:57AM
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Guy Makes A Cordless Drill Out Of An RC Car Nitro Engine
Although the modern brushless impact driver has just about all the power and torque anyone could want from a cordless drill, it doesn’t sound nearly as cool as this thing.

January 16, 2017 at 09:53AM
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“OK Facebook”-Why stop at assistants? Facebook has grander ambitions for modern AI
Facebook’s machine learning pipeline — from research to production — is aimed at an AI future.

January 16, 2017 at 07:34AM
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Drone Delivery Is Probably Never Going To Be A Thing In Cities
Amazon has recently been trialling drones in Australia and the UK, but don’t get too excited: the practical reality of using drones in cities remains far away and is getting ever more distant.

January 15, 2017 at 01:41PM
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Will Mark Zuckerberg Be Our Next President?
It’s a serious question. “He wants to be emperor,” several people have told me.

January 15, 2017 at 09:36AM
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An Earth-Sized Telescope Is About to ‘See’ a Black Hole For the First Time
This spring, one of the world’s largest radio telescope arrays will join forces with eight others to try and glimpse what, previously, has never been seen before.

January 15, 2017 at 07:35AM
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WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
Privacy campaigners say the WhatsApp vulnerability is a “huge threat to freedom of speech” and warn it could be exploited by government agencies.

January 13, 2017 at 07:46AM
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Netflix Wants the World to Binge-Watch
The company wants the attention of the world’s well-off cosmopolitan consumers, and is investing billions of dollars in a multifront effort to create a lingua franca of original programming, while also upgrading the world’s video streaming structure.

January 12, 2017 at 06:47PM
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Meet Peeqo, The Robot Who Communicates Entirely Through GIFs
For every drone armed with a chainsaw, there’s a cute little ‘bot out there who just wants to make you smile.

January 12, 2017 at 05:59PM
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