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Solar Blinds

By: Dan TESLA has recently been creating solar roofs, which have also been featured on the TESLA website. Now, solar blinds are becoming a thing too. These are strips of solar panels slanted outward next to a window. Theoretically, it seems to …

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Balloon Internet

By: Dan During natural disasters, many vital services may go down, communication with the outside world may be next to impossible; especially in remote regions. To combat this problem, huge balloons have been made that provide basic internet access. Peru suffers from …

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A New Judge of Jupiter

By: Patrick Xu Recently, NASA has released papers detailing data received from the Juno spacecraft, a probe launched in August 2011 whose aim is to explore Jupiter and uncover more of the gas giant’s secrets. Every 53 days, it approaches Jupiter and …

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Almost an Iron Man Suit

By: Bryan Richard Browning, an inventor and marine reserve, has recently made a flying suit, similar to that of famous superhero Iron Man. He flew his suit for the first time outside the Vancouver Convention Center during a TED event. Browning is …

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HP Keylogger

By: Dan A keylogger has been discovered in several HP laptops, hidden in an audio driver. It records every keystroke made on the computer and saves it into a file. The keylogger was discovered in the Conexant Hd audio driver package and …

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AI Drone

By: Dan Having drones learn to fly themselves can prove very useful. Abhinav Gupta, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University, built a framework where the the drone in question would crash over and over again. The drones were instructed to fly …

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BOOM

Everyone remembers the Concorde as the famous passenger airliner that could fly past the speed of sound, but it was discontinued for being loud, inefficient, and expensive. Since then, there have been no supersonic airliners. That may change soon, however. A man …

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Life on TRAPPIST-1?

In February, NASA announced the discovery of seven planets similar to earth, around an ultracool dwarf star. The system of planets, named TRAPIST-1, is interesting because three of the planets are in the hospitable zone. That means that the surface temperatures can …

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Learning Robot Arms

Today, machines are taking over many jobs in the industry. With a new arm designed by RightHand Robotics, everything in the future may be put together entirely by robots. This arm is able to teach itself how to pick up objects it …

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Sending Civilians to Mars

SpaceX recently made some incredible achievements, launching a reused rocket back into space. This makes the cost of space travel much, much less, which will help increase the amount of people that we can send into space, especially since people are now …

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