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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...

Robots Wielding Water Knives Are the Future of Farming

JUST AFTER DAWN in the Salinas Valley south of San Francisco, a raucous robot rolls through a field spitting clouds of vapor. It’s cutting...

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...

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...

How to Set Up Your New Google Home

So your home now has a Google Home. You’re about to enter the wonderful world of digital personal assistants. All you have to do...
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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...
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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...

What’s Wrong With Your Venmo Account, and How to Fix It

Few social-media experiences have made me cringe more than viewing my “friend” list on the peer-to-peer payment app Venmo for the first time. Seeing...

Mexico taking U.S. factory jobs? Blame robots instead

Problem is, factories don’t need as many people as they used to because machines now do so much of the work
       

Can’t Decide What Kind of Flying Car to Get? Try These 10!

COMMUTERS OF THE world, rejoice. The long-promised age of the flying car is finally here—more or less. Big-name companies around the world are showing honest...