Railway police have begun using facial-recognition eyewear to catch criminals.
In tests the glasses identified faces within 100 milliseconds.
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Get ready for weed yoga: The first legal cannabis spa may be on its way
Weed and yoga might just be a match made in heaven. But despite pot’s legal status in Denver, “ganja yoga” isn’t permitted. Well, unless you get stoned yourself and then go to a yoga class. But maybe there’s another option on the way…
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If workers slack off the wristband will know. (And Amazon has a patent for it.)
Employees at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, N.J. The e-commerce giant has been known to experiment in-house with new technology before selling it worldwide.CreditBryan Anselm for The New York Times
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Scientists have developed a way to make wood as strong as steel
Scientists have developed a new type of “super wood” that is more than 10 times stronger and tougher than normal wood – and this innovation could potentially become a natural and inexpensive substitute for steel and other materials.
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Intel made smart glasses that look normal
Exclusive first look at Vaunt, which uses retinal projection to put a display in your eyeball
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This tiny, magnetic robot could roll, walk, and swim through the terrain of the human body
This millimeter-scale robot designed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems could enable “applications in microfactories such as the construction of tissue scaffolds by robotic assembly, in bioengineering such as single-cell manipulation and biosensing, and in healthcare such as targeted drug delivery and minimally invasive surgery” with bots inside the body controlled by magnets. From their scientific paper in Nature:
The crowds are back. Now can the space industry build on the momentum?
The crowd cheers at Playalinda Beach along the Canaveral National Seashore, just north of the Kennedy Space Center, during the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Tuesday. (Joe Burbank/AP)
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Before and after the nation state
I’ve been thinking about the connections between the rise of Bitcoin and the unraveling of the EU (Brexit), Spain (Catalan), the Middle East and presumably more countries and regions to come (what Juan Enriquez calls “Untied States” in his book of that name).
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‘Migrants are more profitable than drugs’: how the mafia infiltrated Italy’s asylum system
Crime families have cashed in on the ‘refugee industry’.
4 signs that freelancing isn’t working for you
It’s easy to see the appeal of freelancing. You control who you work with, and the projects you take on. You may have even gone into freelancing with the perception that you would have so much more freedom and flexibility. That’s exactly why between 20-30% of the working-age population in the United States and the EU-15, pick up some independent work.
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Smart city resilience: Digitally empowering cities to survive, adapt, and thrive
In the age of the smart city, leaders must adapt their resilience strategy to match their evolving risk profile—otherwise they risk building a smarter but more fragile city.
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Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases
Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities
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