Building A Paper Skateboard
They should make a paper bike next. They could call it the re-cycle.

July 15, 2015 at 04:23PM
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Battery problem grounds Solar Impulse until 2016
Today, the Solar Impulse team announced that its record-setting aircraft was done for the year. Solar Impulse 2 has been stranded in Hawaii by battery problems that cropped up during its flight there.

July 15, 2015 at 01:43PM
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Apple refreshes iPod lineup with new colors and major upgrades to iPod touch
Apple hasn’t given up on the iPod yet, announcing substantial upgrades to the iPod touch today alongside new color options for the iPod nano and iPod shuffle.

July 15, 2015 at 12:20PM
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A Biodegradable Computer Chip That Performs Surprisingly Well
Researchers show that devices based on a material derived from wood work as well as the communications chip in your smartphone.

July 15, 2015 at 11:25AM
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Flash. Must. Die.
Flash is a closed, proprietary system on a web that deserves open standards. It’s a popular punching bag for hackers, which puts users at risk over and over again. And it’s a resource-heavy battery suck that at this point mostly finds its purchase in pop-up ads you didn’t want to see anyway.

July 15, 2015 at 09:36AM
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What the Fighter of the Future Will Look Like
The next 15 years will change troops’ gear in virtually every respect, from body armor to communications to robot interactions.

July 15, 2015 at 07:29AM
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All the ways hackers will try to kill you in the future
In the wake of recent hacking scares, thefts and attacks, here’s a look at all the ways hackers will potentially kill you in the future. Don’t panic.

July 15, 2015 at 06:30AM
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Diversity in Tech
Last year a number of major tech companies released information on the racial and gender make-up of their employees. As those companies release 2015 ‘diversity reports,’ we’ll be updating this interactive to see how tech companies compare with the previous years and with other companies in terms of gender and race in their custom-defined ‘technology’ and ‘leadership’ positions.

July 15, 2015 at 05:12AM
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How Technology Will Help Enforce the Iran Deal…And Cheat On It
The UN’s nuclear monitors have great new sensors, but eavesdropping gear and radioactive residue will make their job harder than ever.

July 15, 2015 at 12:06AM
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What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?
In 2014 the White House commissioned a 90-day study that culminated in a report on the state of “big data” and related technologies. The authors give many recommendations, including this central warning: “algorithms can facilitate illegal discrimination!”

July 14, 2015 at 08:15PM
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