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A Google computer's stunning 3-0 victory in a Man-vs-Machine face-off over the ultimate board game highlights the need to keep Artificial Intelligence under human control, experts said Saturday.

Self-contained module turns empty spaces into living spaces

San Antonio, Texas-based firms Development Strategies, Inc and Alamo Architects recently completed the first phase of a shipping container-based housing development in Encinal, TX. The project comprises seven container-based apartments and focuses on

The world has always been in a state of conflict and change.

Radical concept plane has virtual reality headsets, live outdoor scenes on the walls and more legroom (even though there are seats for 1,000 passengers)

Power walking into the future

Unleash your inner mad scientist

And it's saving thousands of lives

In what marks important progress toward a future where defective vision could be treated with lab-grown eyeball components, an international team of scientists has used human stem cells to build layers of eye tissue that was then implanted into rabbi

Drones are being utilized in everything from parcel delivery to search and rescue, but their limited flight times are restricting their ability to travel great distances or stay for extended periods of time in the field.

A novel filtration process designed to remove the AIDS virus from human blood has shown excellent promise in a series of pre-clinical trials, according to researchers at Aethlon Medical, an early stage biotechnology firm in La Jolla, Calif.

Engineers at Iowa State University may have gotten one step closer to the ability to make objects invisible with the development of what they are calling a flexible, stretchable and tunable meta-skin.

If you thought the tiny house movement was just a fad, think again...

3D printing is being increasingly adopted by sportswear companies as a means of producing shoes that are lighter and custom molded for a snug fit.

US building supplies firm 84 Lumber has joined the burgeoning small living movement with the launch of a new tiny house range that aims to cater to anyone's skills and budget, from screwdriver-phobes to DIY experts.

The 9-part series premieres on YouTube and Google Play this month

But science has no limit

Gerald Jackson and his partner are starting a Kickstarter to raise funds

Air travel is a common occurrence in our modern society. When most people imagine commercial airliners, they imagine the standard tube-and-wing configuration.

Built with re-usable engines that leverage the long history of automotive tech, the Lynx should give XCOR a competitive edge in suborbital space travel.

'Artificial star' would reflect sunlight to illuminate parts of Earth

In this video i showed you how to install kodi and how to watch anything you want in great quality for free without any ads showing

Brain boffins have been working on the development of sci-fi tech that could make learning easy as having a sleep in future

Those little bags that you find in a box of new shoes or a new camera can be very useful. Here's what you can do with them and some information about just how dangerous they actually are.

Like most, my personal requirements for long-term data storage pretty much end when I end.

Sandvine, a provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, has released a Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight on the state of Internet traffic encryption in 2016.

The future of floating additive manufacturing

but won't ban fluoride in public water supplies... (NaturalNews) In response to a petition filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Environmental Working Group (EWG), and other environmental groups, the FDA has announced that it w

Don't call 911 during emergencies, call your trusted friends instead, using Cell 411, the decentralized emergency alerting and response platform. Cell 411 is a powerful smartphone app that allows you to stream content and notify people in your cell(s

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In both an impressive display of innovative technology and a glimpse of a future in which humans could be redundant, Volvo has shown off its Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling (ROAR) project.

As you light the candle-powered lamp and throw out some soothing background music with a candle-powered Bluetooth speaker, wouldn't it be good if you could add some candle-powered rotary speaker effects to your play along noodling?

All wet

You should check your local laws and regulations before firing off your own

If you asked me to choose one indelible memory from Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo unveiling gala Friday (Feb. 19), I would hem and haw for a few seconds, and then ultimately ask you to wait.

The Bike Washing Machine encourages you to conserve energy and get fit while completing household tasks.

According to Futurists We Will Be 3D Printing Underwater Cities, House-Moving Drones and Even Our Meals within 100 Years

Earth bag construction is taking off around the world, in large part thanks to Cal-Earth in Hesperia, California.

place in the world...For some people, the worship of nature and the divine go hand in hand. They see the overwhelming beauty in the world around them and can't help but see the hand of some otherworldly force at work.

Traffic can be a real grind. For those travelling between work and home by car every day, the seemingly endless cycle of gas-brake-repeat at a snail's pace can wear thin.

In response to Humanoid Robots to Manufacture Planes, reader "XBE", a 37-year ex-Boeing employee, pinged me with a few comments on robots and trends in the number of people it takes to build a plane.

Stephen Hawking wants a ride. Do you?

Scientists have successfully printed a functional human ear that is ready for transplanting.

Take everything you know about data storage and set it aside, because a breakthrough from a research team at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC) could change everything.

concrete 100 MILES away to be ready in 2018...A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018. Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers, the rail gun can fire a shell w

Almost good enough to be transplanted into humans

Scientists have long been on a quest to find a way to implant electrodes that interface with neurons into the human brain.

The government is already spying on us through spying on us through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters (update), television, doll,

Ir has been a couple of months since WUWT has checked in on the progress of solar cycle 24.

The five-year race to preserve every neuron in the brain has come to a successful close