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Robot Dives 1.5 Miles, Maps French Shipwreck With 86,000 Images And Recovers Artifacts

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CANCER HAS BEEN CURED

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Humanoid robots are hitting the factories at an increasing pace

Microsoft's $400 Billion Mistake Is Now a $200 Phone With Zero Tracking

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Communication

Liberation requires collaboration between free thinkers without infringement or censorship. In another age, we could meet in public spaces. Today avoiding the Crown’s surveillance requires we exchange encrypted communication.

Practical Reasons to Learn Morse Code for Survival

This article is about Morse code and why, as a prepper,you should learn just a smattering for survival purposes. Before you groan, hear me out.

BITCOIN 2014 - Keynote - Dr. Patrick Byrne, Overstock CEO (PUBLISHER RECOMMENDED)

BITCOIN 2014 - Keynote - Dr. Patrick Byrne, Overstock CEO

Patrick Byrne - Liberalism, Social Justice, and the Cryptorevolution (PUBLISHER RECOMMENDED)

Patrick Byrne, Founder and CEO of Overstock.com, presents his talk "Liberalism, Social Justice, and the Cryptorevolution" as the guest of the Departments of Economics and Philosophy and the Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, ...

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Microsoft: Synthetic DNA To Be Used For Data Storage

Microsoft has purchased ten million strands of synthetic DNA to advance cutting edge digital data storage technology. With the amount of digital data doubling nearly every two years, the tech industry is on a quest for a long-term solution to keep tr

Students create tiny satellites for affordable space missions

Fancy your own satellite? Arizona State University is working towards making this a reality with its SunCube FemtoSat project

Education of the future?

A GROUP of scientists claim to have created a simulator which can upload knowledge directly to your brain.

Light is information's new friend: 100x increase in amount of information 'packed into light

A research team demonstrates over 100 patterns of light used in an optical communication link, potentially increasing the bandwidth of communication systems by 100 times.

PHONE CAMERAS COULD GET AS SHARP AS DSLRS, BY BENDING LAWS OF NATURE

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Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics

A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionise optics, according to its US inventors.

Suit up for future of VR

Current VR technology can transport your eyes and ears to virtual worlds, but it's at times had trouble with the rest of your body. That could be about to change, as AxonVR has developed a prototype virtual reality platform comprising a full body sui

Scientists break distance record for quantum teleportation

A new record distance has been set for the quantum teleportation of information over optical fibers.

Samsung Patents Contact Lenses With Built-In Camera

Samsung has been granted a patent in South Korea for contact lenses with a display that projects images directly into the wearer's eyes.

OpenBazaar Released: Decentralized Bitcoin Marketplace Now Live and Ready for Business

Almost two years ago, a group of Bitcoin developers, including Amir Taaki, developed an early prototype of a decentralized marketplace during the Toronto Bitcoin Expo Hackathon.

Bulgaria passes Law that mandates Government Software must be Open Source

Do you have any idea what the software you have installed is doing stealthily in the background? If it's not an open source software, can you find out?

Google Software Will Learn To Recognize Objects In The Real World

Acquisition of French image-recognition company paves way to smarter A.I. future

Microsoft stored an OK Go music video in strings of DNA

A University of Washington partnership produced the largest DNA data trove to date

Scientists Are Planting False Experiences Into Peoples' Brains, Inception-Style

Neurofeedback trained people to see what wasn't there

LBRY: The Decentralized Sharing Platform

LBRY is a sharing platform that uses blockchain technology to enable users to publish material and get paid for doing so.

Doomsday Preppers Are Planning to 3D Print Their Way Through the Apocalypse

Jason Ray thinks the culture of "disaster prepping" is misunderstood. Thanks in part to National Geographic's Doomsday Preppers, a reality TV show about preppers, the term conjures images of far-flung, paranoid woodsmen hoarding Borax under the

Andy Rubin: One AI Quantum Computer Could Run Entire Global Internet Of Things

Just one quantum computer running artificial intelligence algorithms would be capable of connecting pretty much all the devices on the planet, Android creator Andy Rubin told an audience at the Bloomberg Technology Conference on Tuesday.

An Everyman's Guide To Understanding Cryptocurrencies

When an asset rises by almost 30% in a few weeks, it tends to attract attention.

?Chemists just named 4 new elements on the periodic table

Get ready to throw out your periodic tables this winter.

Vitalik Buterin Sets Milestones On Ethereum's Route to Be The 'World Computer'

Vitalik Buterin has set the next Ethereum's milestones for 2017 and 2018. According to his paper 'Opportunities and Challenges for Private and Consortium Blockchains', Ethereum 3.0 with 'unlimited' scalability will be released in late 2018.

This mind-blowing infographic shows the incredible depth of the earth's oceans

Happy World Oceans Day!

This 'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides In a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip

SECURITY FLAWS IN software can be tough to find. Purposefully planted ones--hidden backdoors created by spies or saboteurs--are often even stealthier.

Land Navigation Manual: Orienting With a Map & Compass

Welcome back to the Art of Manliness Land Navigation Manual. In Part I, we covered how to properly use a compass, how to shoot your bearings, and the best map for navigating: the topo map.

International Space Station crew deploys CubeSats

Another round of CubeSats, including eight Planet Lab Dove Satellites, were deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) by the Expedition 47 crew. A total of 17 tiny spacecraft were deployed from NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) at the end

Scientists Meet In Secret To Discuss Creating A Synthetic Human Genome

TN Note: Huxley's Brave New World is coming to life right before our eyes. Who needs parents? Babies are created in the lab for their pathetic, predetermined existence: Alphas, Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons.

Using EMP-Hardened HF Ham Radio to Send/Receive E-Mail During ..

There are multiple possible scenarios that may result in a regional an/or national combined loss of Internet connectivity and cell/telephone service, during which you would probably wish to maintain communications to loved ones and others.

VoCore: Mini Linux Computer

Take on Endless Electronic Projects with the Tiniest Linux Computer Yet!

Survival Communications After a Collapse:

"Pringles Can And Broadband Routers Could Create a WiFi Network"

After 4,600 years, we can finally see deep inside Egypt's mysterious pyramids

You may have wondered what the inside of a pyramid looks like. Not the cavities and passages you see on "The Mummy" -- the actual structure of the creation, how it was built to last all these years.

IBM Is Now Letting Anyone Play With Its Quantum Computer

Quantum computing is computing at its most esoteric. It's an experimental, enormously complex, sometimes downright confusing technology that's typically the domain of hardcore academics and organizations like Google and NASA. But that might be ch

The Skills That Will Really Matter After An Economic Meltdown

In the middle of this catastrophe, money in the bank, gold in your home, or collector's antiques aren't going to matter too much.

Buckyball: The Magic Molecule

Our August 1991 cover story, in honor of Harry Kroto's passing

Sony files to patent new contact lenses that can record video

The contacts, which only need to be worn on one eye, can be switched on and off by closing the eyelids

Inexpensive 3D-printed lens gives terahertz imaging a boost

Terahertz radiation is a growing field of technology that enables faster materials analysis than X-ray examination, and provides non-destructive, internal analysis of a raft of different types of materials.

Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption by 7 Years

THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE on Monday blamed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for advancing the development of user-friendly, widely available strong encryption.

Underwater drone follows and films scuba divers

Many aerial drones now feature a Follow Me mode - that's where they can be instructed to autonomously fly along above you and shoot video as you ski, cycle, run or otherwise move about. However, what happens if you're a scuba diver? Well, in the ne

Check Out These Clever Kits for Teaching Your Kids to Hack Electronics

Parents, listen up: Put your kids in engineering and computer science classes

Stephen Hawking and Billionaire Team Up on $100 Million Quest to Find Alien Life

Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are teaming up in a $100 million hunt for alien life that will rely on a fleet of postage stamp-sized spacecraft to explore the universe.

The phone case that comes with a built-in DRONE:

Prototype design includes UAV to help take better selfies

WhatsApp is Now End-to-End Encrypted

Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp it is turning on end-to-end encryption for all its users by default. Every call a user makes, every text message they send, all photos and videos they share will now be secure with the encryption status visible

SHTF Skills Every American Needs: "Improvise With What You Have"

Does the future hold prolonged economic collapse? Electric outages? Food shortage? Civil unrest? EMP attacks? Looting and the general descent into madness?

Quantum cryptography breakthrough may lead to more secure communications

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Toshiba's European research branch have found a way to speed up the rate at which data can be securely transmitted using quantum cryptography. It's a development that could pave the way to faster, ultra-

It looks like Samsung's crazy folding smartphone is actually happening

The foldable smartphone that Samsung's been working on for the last few years could become a reality soon.

Sell on the World's Largest Marketplace for Bitcoin

Get set up in minutes, no bank account required. Over $7,000,000 in products sold. Start selling yours today.

Super-tough portable box keeps gadgets safe, dry and charged

Your smartphone likely has no difficulty keeping up with you during normal days in your home or at work, but how good does it do when you head off into the wilderness for some recreation or relaxation?

VoCore is a Tiny Linux Machine to Power Your Projects -- Now 13% off

Makers around the world use affordable microcomputers as the digital brain for their hardware projects.
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