US scientists have amassed “planetary-scale” data from people’s smartphones to see how active we really are.
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Wireless power could enable ingestible electronics
Small sensors or drug delivery devices could reside in the GI tract indefinitely
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Will France actually be able to ban all gas and diesel vehicles by 2040?
The government of France announced plans to end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040, with ecology minister Nicolas Hulot unveiling a wide range of targets and initiatives timed to coincide with the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, last week. The announcement was made as a part of the country’s renewed commitment to the goals of the Paris Climate Accords, which were reaffirmed by 19 of the 20 countries gathered at the summit last week.
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A third of millennials have used Venmo to pay for drugs
A new survey finds that 33% of millennials have used Venmo, the payments app owned by PayPal that’s popular with the demographic, to buy illicit drugs.
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Dogs can sniff out Parkinson’s disease years before symptoms appear
Dogs could soon be used to sniff out Parkinson’s disease years before symptoms start to show.
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Poised to overtake bitcoin this year, Ethereum is changing the way we think about cryptocurrency
Vitalik Buterin is the brains behind what some say is the next generation of bitcoin, called Ethereum.
The sideways elevator of the future is here, and it’s wild
People laughed when ThyssenKrupp, a company synonymous with elevators, announced it was developing one that goes every which way. Who’d ever heard of such a thing? Everyone knows elevators go just two directions: Up and down. Some took to calling it the Wonkavator, after Willy Wonka’s wacky lift that goes sideways, slantways, and longways.
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This $130,000 self-deploying building can unfold in just eight minutes
Building a home or temporary shelter by hand can be both time-consuming and expensive.
Ten Fold Engineering, a housing startup based in the UK, has created self-deploying buildings that can pop up in a matter of eight minutes. Owners push a button, and the rooms fold out like an accordion using a counterbalance system.
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Why are US car sales falling?
Car sales in America – the world’s second-largest market – are stalling, but there’s debate about whether the downshift is due to normal economic cycles or a sign of bigger changes.
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AI will help us download meeting notes to our brains by 2030
The internet is overflowing with tips on how to hack your health. From increasing cognitive function by drinking butter-spiked coffee to tracking sleep, stress, and activity levels with increasingly sophisticated fitness wearables, ours is a culture obsessed with optimizing performance. Combining this ethos with recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, it’s practically inevitable that the next frontier in achieving superhuman status lies in the rapidly developing field of brain augmentation.
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A future without fakes thanks to quantum technology
Counterfeit products are a huge problem – from medicines to car parts, fake technology costs lives.
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Solar costs are hitting jaw-dropping lows in every region of the world
How low can you go? Mind-blowingly low 65-cents-per-watt solar system pricing emerges in India.
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