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Fire Fighters Of The Future Race To Save Their City
Image: Even in a technologically-advanced future, we’ll still need to put out fires.
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Watch A Super Hydrophobic Knife Cut Through A Water Droplet
Video: Black magic and sorcery and deals with the devil and breaks in The Matrix and possibly other dimensions. That’s what super hydrophobic material is made out of. Like this super hydrophobic knife that just slices through a water droplet and cuts it in two. Are we really sure science can explain what my eyes…
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Google’s 3D-Scanning Project Tango Just Got A Little More Real
Google ATAP (that’s Advanced Technology and Projects) is where wonderful things are born. Things like the animated magic of Glen Keane’s Duet or the modular Project Ara smartphone. It’s all great stuff, but it’s also all experimental — if a project doesn’t make enough progress in two years, it’s dead. But Google’s Project Tango is…
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There’s Actually A Legitimate Reason Why LA’s Skyline Is So Ugly
Los Angeles’ skyline has none of the soaring spires that grace the Burj Khalifa or the Chrysler Building. Instead, it’s uniformly flat, like someone took an axe to downtown and left only stumps of buildings. And it’s all because of a piece of misguided regulation.