Imagine a future where you can be injected with bacteria carrying designer DNA that releases cancer-fighting drugs when it finds a tumor in your body. A team of biological engineers at MIT have tak…
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The White House’s tech overhaul is long, long overdue
While President Barack Obama may seem totally tech-savvy, he and everyone else at the White House have basically been running the country on really old tech. Between black-and-white printers, clunk…
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A few months ago I received a very large package. Inside was a cloth-bound book with an unflattering picture of my face and the legend ‘Hommage a Patrick Goss’ splashed across the front…
Crowdfunded Russian satellite will be used to help fight space junk
Last month, we wrote about a team of Russian engineers building a satellite that would appear as the brightest object in the sky, but at the time there didn’t seem to be any real purpose to t…
Blue Origin lands its reusable rocket for the third time in a row
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VR Week: In American football, VR will reinvent the film room
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Hong Kong man builds his own Scarlett Johansson in robot form
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Week in Tech: Week in Tech: VR is really here, Microsoft builds bots, and Nintendo goes mobile
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This homemade thermite launcher is Fallout 4’s Fat Man brought to life
They say having a hobby is good for your lifespan, but that potentially doesn’t apply to UK YouTuber Colin Furze, whose hobbies include pyrotechnics and cannons.Furze, who constructs an array…
The seas of the future will be full of drone ships
Everyone gets very excited about self-driving cars and autonomous aircraft, but there’s another mode of transportation that’s getting robotic, and fast.A team at Korea’s Advanced …