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Virginia Opens Its Roads To Self Driving Cars

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Self-driving cars are taking to the streets in California this summer, but the Golden State isn't the only one opening its roads to autonomous cars. Virginia just…

Wave Hello To A Lab-Grown Rat Arm [Video]

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Right now, if you’re one of more than 1.5 million Americans who’ve lost a limb, you don’t have a lot of options when it comes to replacing it. Prosthetics tend to be clunky,…

China's Getting Ready to Turn on Asia's Biggest Warship

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China's Type 055 cruiser, Asia' future largest warship, has a test rig on land for its radars and datalinks. It's going to take over the airwaves soon.

This Blood Scan Reveals Every Virus That’s Ever Infected You

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You probably remember when you had the chicken pox. Maybe you recall a few times you caught the flu. But you might have had some infections that you never even realized or…

Anti-Cheating Drone Will Hover Over Test-Takers In China

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Exams are stressful, so it’s understandable that some people would want to circumvent the hard work of studying by instead cheating. For students taking the national university entrance exams in China, there’s now one more little thing to worry about: drones, deployed to catch cheaters.The drone is a hexarotor and, as reported by China’s state-owned ECNS news service, it will scan for suspicious radio signals from exam-takers. While that won’t stop any cheaters who use low-tech methods to get around difficult questions, it will detect any number of advanced methods that rely on the test-taker…

'Hellboy' Dinosaur Discovery Leads To Marriage Proposal

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The huge fringed skull of the dinosaur was so massive that it had to be lifted out of the Canadian countryside by helicopter.The find, first made back in 2005, took ten years…

Five Things We Learned From This Adorable Penguin Chick

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The tiny penguin chick Curry (named after Golden State Warriors player Stephen Curry) was ready for the spotlight. Despite a little bit of squirming in his handler, biologist…

Pentagon Blames Congress For Fouling Up Rocket Deals With Russia

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Space makes for strange relationships. With NASA’s Space Shuttle shuttered since 2011, American astronauts have hitched rides to the International Space Station inside…

Watch This Zero G NASA Drone Concept Fly And Climb Through The Space Station

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We think of flying as escaping gravity. How could it be anything else, when vehicles leave the ground and soar through the sky? It’s much more complicated than that, and it…

EcoCAR 3 Competition Enters Year Two

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The US Department of Energy's EcoCAR 3 challenge is wrapping up the first year of its three-year competition to make a 2016 Chevy Camaro more fuel efficient.

5 Things You Need To Know About So-Called "Female Viagra"

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Viagra first hit the market 17 years ago as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. In all that time, the FDA hasn't approved a comparable drug for women's sexual…

Do Androids Dream Of Drone Weddings?

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Today The Knot livestreamed a "Dream Wedding", where one couple would join their hands in union before family, friends, an unknown number of online spectators ... and robots.

World's First Ice-Breaking Tanker Ships Will Plough Through Arctic Route

Start Your Humanoids: Today's DARPA Robotics Challenge Is Historic, And Hilarious

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The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals are the most important event in robotics in years, and one of the most childish things ever cooked up by the Pentagon.

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Air Force Wants Cheap Attack Drones It Can Lose In War

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Military drones are cheap, but they could certainly stand to be a whole lot cheaper. At least, that’s the rationale behind an Air Force solicitation for a “Low Cost…

Meet The Four-Legged Freaks Competing In DARPA's Robotics Challenge

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Robots are immune to pain, don’t have to breathe, and depending on how they’re designed, can go places humans can’t. They’re also, as my colleague Erik Sofge notes, about as good at walking as toddlers. Sofge is present to witness DARPA’s rescue robot competition, where vaguely-humanoid mechanical beasts will open doors, climb over obstacles, and otherwise attempt to be human-but-better.Here are some of the 25 robots in the competition. That’s a lot of walkers, so below are the five robots that entered a competition for humanoids and decided to bring an extra pair of legs.AERO DRC, built by a…

Twilight of the Bipeds: Could DARPA's Robot Competition Kill Off Its Own Humanoid Stars?

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The DARPA Robotics Challenge is shining a spotlight on humanoid robots. But as these bipeds topple left and right, that might not be a good thing.
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