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Reddit community 'Data is Beautiful' created a series of animations comparing subway maps to their actual geography

We're not quite in RoboCop town, but the world's first robotic police officer is now on the beat in Dubai.

News The federal government has long played a vital role in advancing prosthetic technologies ... Contributed Author: Mark Geil, The Conversation, Phys.org Topics: Prosthetics

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Adolescents who have a greater tendency to lie to their parents are also more likely to start using alcohol at an earlier age, while excessive parental supervisio...

Design stories can be pretty silly, and that's especially true for Samsung's annoying smartphone design stories -- here's the most recent Galaxy S8 story. But Samsung designers aren't the only ones that have exaggerated ...

Google announced last week that Android emoji would be getting a complete revamp with the next version of Android, Android O. As my colleague Stan wrote after the announcement, the redesign was long overdue. Android user...

Red Hat acquires Codenvy, an existing partner that makes container and cloud dev tools.

Fingerprinting official documents could provide a cost-effective way to prevent forgery, new research shows.

Rocket Lab's Electron is set to become the first launcher made for, and for sale to, small satellite startups. The post This New Goldilocks Rocket Is Juuust Right for Small Satellites appeared first on WIRED.

An Associated Press report introduced Dr. Anurag Bishnoi, who employs in-vitro fertilization treatment on Indian women over age 50 and well into their 70s. Learn more about his controversial IVF technique and criticism o...

Jupiter's atmosphere defies all scientific expectations. The post Jupiter's Super-Weird Atmosphere Is Astonishing Scientists appeared first on WIRED.

Now that DJI's new mini Spark drone has been officially announced, the early reviews are starting to appear. Photo industry personality Kai Wong got his hands on a pre-release prototype, and his video provides a great ea...

You may be surprised to learn that if you walked into a shoe factory today versus forty years ago, a lot of what you'd see would be the same. At the heart of footwear manufacturing, one key thing has been slowing down pr...

News site Axios is claiming that Trump’s iPhone is so locked down the only visible app on it is Twitter. Staff are also said to aim to keep him too busy to spend much time watching cable TV and tweeting… more…

M.C. Escherichia THE central idea of synthetic biology is that living cells can be programmed in the same way that computers can, in order to make them do things and produce compounds that their natural counterparts do n...

A million dollars up in smoke ON APRIL 7th a salvo of missiles fired by American warships in the Mediterranean scored direct hits on several Syrian aircraft shelters from hundreds of miles away, demonstrating once more t...

NASA has unveiled some cool new concept art for its next Red Planet robot, the Mars 2020 rover, and it looks awesome.

Back in November, Google suspended over 200 accounts linked to reselling Pixel phones originally purchased from Project Fi. Now, the current owners of some of those devices are finding themselves with a rather expensive ...

Flying a drone that takes your photos and videos has never been easier. The 'DJI Spark' drone camera is no bigger than a coke can but it's got some great potential. It's almost entirely controlled by hand gestures, makin...

Through a project called ConservationFIT, a team of wildlife conservationists from the nonprofit WildTrack are developing algorithms to analyze images of footprints and drones to monitor animal movements from the air. Th...

The "worm" is back at NASA, sort of. Twenty-five years after the agency unceremoniously retired the iconic logotype, the retro logo has fallen back into NASA's good graces, at least when it comes to new merchandise.

Robots are rapidly becoming a part of manufacturing, but the results of who's winning the robot game are in: South Korea has the highest concentration of industrial robots in the world. According to the International Fed...