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Google believes artificial intelligence will be bigger than virtual reality
When Mark Zuckerberg thinks about the future, he sees a world that's dominated by mobile devices and virtual reality, but when Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks ...
China wants to build floating nuclear power plants for its new islands
I'm sure you've heard about that man-made island chain that China has built in the South China Sea, the one that's been causing a lot of anxiety for the other ...
Japan wants tourists to use their fingerprints to make purchases
Japan is already one of most tourism-friendly countries in the world, even going so far as to offer free Wi-Fi to tourists, but there's always room for ...
MasterCard wants people to verify purchases with selfies
In what may be the first practical use for selfies in history, MasterCard will soon allow some of its customers to verify their purchases by taking a picture of ...
5D discs could preserve mankind’s knowledge for billions of years
All things come to an end eventually, and mankind is no exception. Even if we don't drive ourselves to extinction through the over-consumption of ...
Americans trust scientists more than politicians
Seeing how much attention people like Honey Boo Boo and the Kardashians get genuinely depresses me at times, and it's even worse when monumental scientific ...
Brain scans might replace passwords one day
Biometric authentication is seen by many to be the natural successor to passwords, but nobody has been able to figure out which method is the best. Fingerprint ...
Elon Musk has an idea for an electric plane that takes off vertically
There's just no stopping Elon Musk, is there? While answering questions at the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod competition earlier this week, Musk talked ...
SpaceX declared MIT the winner of today’s Hyperloop competition
Thousands of engineers from colleges and high schools from across the world gathered at Texas A&M University in College Station on Saturday to compete for a ...
Adobe Flash will cease to exist within the next couple of years
This has been a pretty good week for digital security, because not only is Oracle finally killing off its cancerous Java plug-in for web ...
Google has reached a major artificial intelligence milestone
It's been almost two decades since IBM taught a computer to be a master at chess, which is regarded as one of the most-important artificial intelligence ...
Aecom is helping SpaceX build its first Hyperloop test track
When the idea of the Hyperloop was first made public back in 2013, most people thought that it was a really interesting idea, but one that would never become ...
Lyft’s partnership with Waze could give it an edge over Uber
Google hasn't done much with Waze since it acquired the crowd-sourced navigation app back in 2013, but it looks like that's about to change. On Tuesday, Waze ...
The human brain is capable of storing almost the entire Internet
A group of researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have discovered that the human brain is capable of storing more information ...