At IO-AI Tech, a startup about 45 minutes north of downtown Shenzhen, China, I glimpsed a wacky new frontier of blue-collar work. Workers wearing the company's VR headsets, handheld controllers, and motion-tracking gear remotely control humanoid robots for workplaces...
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 SpaceX is now valued higher than Amazon Its market value hit $2.659 trillion yesterday. (Axios)+ A post-IPO stock surge also briefly pushed it above Microsoft’s. (Quartz)+...
On Wednesday morning, workers poured hydrogen peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC.The treatment is the latest attempt by the Interior Department to control an algae bloom that has turned the pool bright green, despite President...
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“Living with a disease like ALS, you are supposed to have diminished dreams. I do not,” Harrell tells MIT Technology Review. “Any one of these things would be an absolute godsend of improvement. To have all of them, and...
A decade ago, kratom advocates fought a surprisingly successful campaign against a proposed Drug Enforcement Administration ban that claimed the obscure Southeast Asian plant posed “an imminent hazard to public safety.”They won bipartisan allies from Bernie Sanders to Rand...
My wife found this in a store and bought it for me a joke because it says "manly man smell like tree" on the box, which, I mean, you have to buy that. Sometimes a thing that seems like...
Dyson's vacuum lineup had a new look planned for this year. Some of the vacuums have already arrived, like the Dyson PencilVac and Dyson Spot+Scrub robot vacuum, but others we've still been waiting to see. That wait is over...
With his history of involvement in pro wrestling and boxing and his zeal for garish excess—the man is a failed casino impresario, after all—it makes perfect sense that Donald Trump would want to celebrate both America’s birthday and his...
The idea is to treat the disease by regenerating healthy nerves in the eye—but the company already hopes to go further. If the treatment can reverse glaucoma, similar treatments could reverse other diseases of aging. Maybe, just maybe, they...
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