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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) may be the most common mass surveillance technology in use by local law enforcement around the country--but they're not always used in the same way.
A theorist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown that, if quantum computer are fully realized, there may be fewer limits to their speed than previously put forth.
Bloomberg Businessweek visits the California headquarters of Aeros, where the aircraft manufacturer is building a blimp-like cargo vehicle capable of transporting massive loads. (Source: Bloomberg)
Elon Musk receives a lot of coverage on this tech blog, and not without merit: He's one of the most famous tech developers in the industry. Musk has involved himself in many great undertakings, including a faster-than-sound train and both self-driv
You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but wringing water from the desert sky is now possible, thanks to a new spongelike device that uses sunlight to suck water vapor from air, even in low humidity.
China has revealed the first known images of an indigenous scramjet test that it says was successfully conducted at speeds up to Mach 7 and altitudes up to 30 km, in December 2015.
As the laboratory results chart shows below, this invention eliminates over 95% of cesium elements from the digestive tract, making it extremely effective at protecting the body from absorbing radioactive cesium.
in science article debunking iodine myths...(Natural News) As the risk of nuclear war continues rising by the day, iodine myths abound on the internet. While iodine is very important for protecting your thyroid and other organs from iodine-131, a dan
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is allowing a company to sell genetic tests for disease risk directly to consumers, providing people with information about the likelihood that they could develop various conditions, including Park
In 1993 the deaths of 93,000 elderly Americans vaccinated with a "hot lot" flu vaccine that caused the life expectancy of Americans to drop for the first time in eight decades was covered up by health authorities and the news media. If you can h
The Zika virus narrative concocted by first the medical "officials" in Brazil, the WHO (World Health Organization) and repeated by the mainstream media dating back to 2014 has taken many turns. All along, those pushing the Zika virus narrative have
SAN FRANCISCO -- Fingerprint sensors have turned modern smartphones into miracles of convenience. A touch of a finger unlocks the phone -- no password required. With services like Apple Pay or Android Pay, a fingerprint can buy a bag of groceries,
In all seriousness, what you're looking at isn't actually a portal to another dimension - but it's not Photoshop, either. That really is a physical object that's been sprayed with Vantablack - the blackest material known to science.
If you're
At M.I.T.'s Media Lab, the digital futurist playground, David Rose is investigating swaddling, bedtime stories and hammocks, as well as lavender oil and cocoons.
Scientists have discovered the secret of how memories are made - the brain makes two copies of every event, in a discovery they described as "beautiful".
Worldwide, efforts to sustainably reduce greenhouse gasses are feeble, especially since, undeniably, "economic growth tends to trump vague and elusive global aspirations". While initiatives such as the Paris Agreement are a sort of "emergency r
A new graphene based electrode created by RMIT University researchers could boost the capacity of existing integrable storage technologies by 3000 per cent.
Scientists at publicly-funded universities are racing to create human-like artificial intelligence that will displace the humans who funded them in the first place. Ethical and moral debate is entirely missing in this field. ? TN Editor
And as alcohol is considered a legal, 'socially acceptable' substance that helps us to relax and lessen our inhibitions, it tends to be the drug of choice for many.
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