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Finally, An Online Course For Aspiring Flying Car Engineers
N THE PAST year, flying cars have gone from LOL, to maybe a real thing, to a booming industry raking in VC cash and churning out sweet renderings of an...
Will Robots Replace Fast-Food Workers?
The robots in movies and science fiction books that rise up to take over the world generally are able to do so because we...
Report: These are the fastest-declining jobs in the U.S.
As technology overtakes every industry, the business forecast for jobs like typists, watch repairers, and postal workers over the next decade is bleak, according...
Don’t Open That Google Doc Unless You’re Positive It’s Legit
IF YOU GET a Google Doc link in your inbox today, scrutinize it carefully before you click—even if it looks like it comes from...
Veebot, the Robotic Phlebotomist That Makes Drawing Blood Faster (VIDEO)
There are two things that this editor fears about blood draws: the fact that he has deep veins, and the prospect of being stabbed...
Amazon’s first drone-powered delivery takes 13 minutes from purchase to drop-off
Drone delivery has begun.
On Dec. 7, a bag of popcorn, along with an Amazon Fire TV stick, left a Cambridge warehouse in the U.K. and 13 minutes...
Try to Dissect Apple’s New AirPods and You’ll Shed Blood
APPLE’S SLEEK AIRPODS represent the company’s vision of a hands-free, wireless future. Sure, the sound is only fair to middling, but Apple made them...
The Apple-Google Contact Tracing Plan Won’t Stop Covid Alone
Putting the privacy of these smartphone apps aside, few Americans have been tested—and there's a risk of false positives.
Hands wearing sterile gloves checking a...
This robot-powered restaurant could put fast food workers out of a job
A robot-powered burger joint is coming to San Francisco.
In 2012, secretive robotics startup Momentum Machines debuted a machine that could crank out 400 made-to-order...
In booming retail warehouses, robots steadily replace some workers
When Skechers started building a colossal distribution center in Moreno Valley six years ago, backers promised a wave of new jobs.
Instead, by the time...
