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A spaceship bankrolled by Sir Richard Branson made its first engine-powered flight Monday in a test that moves Virgin Galactic toward its goal of flying into space later this year.
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A camera finds individual drops, then a projector blacks them out of the driver's view.
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Tech hooks into your home's electric system to track touch from afar
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The British businessman's fraud likely killed many soldiers who relied on the bogus devices to detect explosives.