How to Get Online in Cuba
Americans will soon be able to hop on a commercial flight to Havana, but staying connected while there is more complicated.

February 3, 2016 at 05:08PM
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How technology helps the blind navigate the physical world.
Simply navigating her campus used to be exhausting for this visually impaired professor. She’s trying to change that.

February 3, 2016 at 05:08PM
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Meet the soft, cuddly robots of the future
Rigid robots step aside — a new generation of squishy, stretchy machines is wiggling our way.

February 3, 2016 at 03:07PM
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Zoltan Istvan Wants To Live Forever And Be President Of The United States
Transhumanist Party member Zoltan Istvan wants to live forever, both in history books and real life.

February 3, 2016 at 02:59PM
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What It’s Like to Wear Bionic Earbuds
The two computerized earbuds which capture the sound from the world around you with a little microphone, process it in real time, and spit altered sound into your ear canal, according to parameters that you’ve set in the accompanying smartphone app.

February 3, 2016 at 01:31PM
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Bucket lists are a good way to ruin the experience of nature
The idea of slowing down, even for just a moment, leads to the question: how do you approach time outdoors? We ought not to have it dictated how we “should” enjoy nature.

February 3, 2016 at 10:36AM
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Fun with a new data set: Chang’e 3 lander and Yutu rover camera data
In 2013, China sent a rover to the moon. The pictures were released very slowly and on a clunky website. Now a space journalist has sifted through them and found these really awesome shots.

February 3, 2016 at 07:35AM
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Against “Don’t Read the Comments”
We’ve made a habit out of telling people not to read the comments online. But what started as a cynical in-joke has become a bad habit, and an excuse for enabling abuse across the web.

January 29, 2016 at 10:47AM
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This Robot Changes How It Looks at You to Match Your Personality
Sean Andrist, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been researching social gaze with robots. He’s developed algorithms that help robots look at people at the right times and in the right ways. It’s not just making the robots less creepy, but more helpful as well.

January 29, 2016 at 04:15AM
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NYC Launches Investigation Into Hackable Baby Monitors
After a string of incidents in which hackers have watched or even verbally harassed children through baby monitors, the devices have come to represent everything that’s wrong with the Internet of things.

January 29, 2016 at 01:12AM
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