Today’s teenagers don’t seem to care much about hitting the open road, scoring a six-pack with a fake ID, or asking their peers out on dates.
Two Americans invented a wood burning stove that could save millions of lives – and it also charges your phone
The CampStove 2 is a wood burner which uses no charcoal or liquid fuels to operate, using only wood for fires.
Scanning the future, radiologists see their jobs at risk
These days, a radiologist at UCSF will go through anywhere from 20 to 100 scans a day, and each scan can have thousands of images to review.
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EV Range Anxiety May Be a Thing of the Past
If range anxiety is no longer an obstacle to EV adoption, the industry may take off like a rocket.
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Facebook just bid $600 million to stream Indian cricket matches. Will it try NFL games next?
Mark Zuckerberg didn’t get the IPL but he may have a shot at pro football.
Revenge hacking is hitting the big time
The plan was to hack the hackers. Cybercriminals had targeted a global bank’s customers with phishing emails to break into their accounts. The legal option—waiting for law enforcement to investigate and perhaps apprehend the hackers—would have taken too long. So the bank was willing to try something else, and a team of security consultants offered to strike back.
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Legal weed is getting cheaper, fast
As states legalize marijuana across the country for medical and recreational use, prices are dropping faster than growers and sellers would like them to, according to the Wall Street Journal. The cannabis industry has grown over the past few years, bringing in more than $6 billion a year in retail.
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Quiet energy revolution underway in Japan as dozens of towns go off the grid
TOKYO/HIGASHI MATSUSHIMA, JAPAN (Reuters) – A northern Japanese city’s efforts to rebuild its electric power system after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami mark a quiet shift away from the country’s old utility model toward self-reliant, local generation and transmission.
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Scientists from Bengaluru will now grow forests using drones
KPJ Reddy, a professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, will soon be growing forests with the help of seed-bombing drones. Alarmed by how fast natural habitats and wildlife are disappearing, the nature lover was inspired to make a difference.
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Someone finally made an app to detect credit card skimmers at the gas pump
In less than 30 seconds a hacker can install a $10 piece of pre-built hardware – easily purchased online – into a gas pump. This device is called a skimmer and it’s designed to get your credit card number when you use it at the pump.
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DaVinci Institute to launch world’s first “freelance colony” at its Westminster, Colorado HQ
On October 16-20, 2017 the DaVinci Institute will host its first ever Freelance Academy course as a kickoff for the world’s first Freelance Colony, a coworking community inside the Institutes Westminster headquarters.
A recent report by MBO Partners showed that 3.2 million freelancers are earning more than $100,000 annually. This is up 4.9% from 2016.
A free, teacher-less university in France is schooling thousands of future-proof programmers
When you walk into École 42, a teacher-less coding school in Paris, a few things leap out at you: a killer collection of provocative street art, including an illustrated condom machine at the front desk; iMacs as far as the eye can see; and a palpable buzz from the roughly 1,000 students bustling around the building.
