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Condom-Vending Machines Rust As HIV Cases Increase

Guwahati: Lying unused and unstocked, the state’s condom-vending machines have found no takers. Even as the state records more and more cases of HIV/AIDS, the ambitio...

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Sustainable Development

This Smart Glove Translates Sign Language To Text And Speech

Ayoub told me that her motto is always “to design for a cause,” and to produce products that will help a wider community. With the “smart glove,” he...

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Sustainable Development

Underwater Hobby Drones Are About To Become A Thing.

The Trident is being developed by the team behind the OpenROV kit, a build-it-yourself underwater drone—technically, a remote-operated underwater vehicle, or ROV&mdas...

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Sustainable Development

Jeff Bezos Is Building A Rocket Factory At An Old NASA Launch Site

“We’re not just launching from here, we’re building here,” Bezos, who also owns Amazon and The Washington Post, said at a press conference. “W...

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Sustainable Development

This 70-Year-Old Programmer Is Preserving An Ancient Coding Language On Github

Shields has been coding for more than 50 years, and over the decades he’s worked at both NYU and IBM as a research programmer—someone who pushes the boundaries ...

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Sustainable Development

American Astronauts Will Fly to Space in Boeing's 'Starliner'

Boeing, with its CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX, with its Dragon, are vying to become the first American companies to ever fly NASA astronauts into space. At this point it&rs...

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Sustainable Development

SpaceX Is Planning At Least Four More Launches This Year

Earlier this week, Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president, said she wasn’t sure when the company would return to flight after its failed International Space S...

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Sustainable Development

The World's Most Powerful Camera Will Snap An Area 40x Bigger Than The Moon

Weighing in at roughly three tonnes (about the same as a jeep), the epic camera will be assembled at the DOE’s National Accelerator Laboratory. From 2022, it will hel...

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Sustainable Development

How Automating Evolution Could Give Machines Imaginations.

Imagine if, decades from now, a computer spat out a brilliant design for a vehicle so novel that we humans have no choice but to call it an act of imagination. One day, Uni...

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Sustainable Development

This Animator-Turned-Roboticist Is Making A Universal Language For Robots

“Robot Animator creates a new interface inside Autodesk Maya that’s specific to robotics,” Flessas told me. The software simplifies robotic programming fo...

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