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Eugenics was a popular meme in the 1930s when Technocracy was in its heyday. Although the official movement did not directly promote eugenics, many technocrats supported it. In the U.S., eugenic sterilization policies were not terminated until 1963.
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controlling disease vs. health throughout your life (the Health Ranger was right!)
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Wearables and other connected devices have been available to help treat chronic conditions like asthma and heart disease for a while now.
Engineers at Iowa State University may have gotten one step closer to the ability to make objects invisible with the development of what they are calling a flexible, stretchable and tunable meta-skin.
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TN Note: This whole pre-crime mentality that is sweeping the law enforcement community is very dangerous.
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Welcome to robot nursery school," Pieter Abbeel says as he opens the door to the Robot Learning Lab on the seventh floor of a sleek new building on the northern edge of the UC-Berkeley campus.
Two new studies bolster evidence that feeding babies peanuts or other allergy-inducing foods is more likely to protect them than to cause problems.
Here's what the first American recipient will undergo
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As autonomous cars move closer to the showroom, it's clear that they'll be more than just conventional vehicles minus the driver.