The Caring Bear
Meet Huggable, a robotic teddy bear that is being studied for its potential therapeutic value for hospitalized children.

June 9, 2015 at 04:59PM
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How To Water Cool Your Macbook
Does partially submerging the bottom of your Macbook in a pan of cool water increase the performance, or just destroy your $2,000 machine?

June 9, 2015 at 04:59PM
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Intel Capital Creates $125M Fund for Women-, Minority-led Startups
Intel Capital has launched a $125 million fund to back startups run by women and minorities, part of a corporate-wide effort to bring more diversity into the notoriously male technology industry.

June 9, 2015 at 02:03PM
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How a 1995 TV Guide predicted the future of television, sort of
Speculating on the future of television technology, writer Greg Fagan described the DVD as an “advance in digital wizardry,” television as “a garden of ideas waiting to be plucked, processed, and displayed on the shelves of computer stores” and websites as “info kiosks in cyberspace.”

June 9, 2015 at 12:40PM
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ISIS Is Using Tunnel Bombs in Iraq
Updating an ancient tactic, Islamic State militants — as well as rebels in Syria — are digging virtually undetectable tunnels, then planting bombs to blow up buildings and other targets.

June 9, 2015 at 12:40PM
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Guy Plays Guitar And Drums For ‘Highway To Hell,’ Without Actually Owning Drums
Buying drums is expensive, and drummers are notoriously flakey. So Pensen Paletti decided to learn to play some MIDI-controlled drum triggers strapped to his guitar.

June 9, 2015 at 11:23AM
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Airbus unveils Adeline, its clever answer to SpaceX’s reusable rockets
The main engines sprout wings and propellers, and fly back to HQ like a drone.

June 9, 2015 at 06:34AM
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Can Learning to Code Delay Alzheimer’s?
According to new research, the ways in which our brains process spoken and computer languages are similar. Programmers may also get the mental benefits of being bilingual — such as a delayed onset of Alzheimer’s disease, for example.

June 9, 2015 at 05:45AM
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Black Hole Hunters
For two weeks, Volcan Sierra Negra, an extinct 15,000-foot volcano in southern Mexico, was the nerve center for the largest telescope ever conceived, built to take the first-ever picture of a black hole.

June 8, 2015 at 06:33PM
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Who Needs Paint When You Can Buy A Laser?
Andy Gikling created the illustration for this piece, which was then imported directly into LasX’s “Lightguide v5” laser control software, which can “print” images as vectors or rasters.

June 8, 2015 at 06:22PM
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