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In the food industry, it seems, the robot revolution is well underway, with machines mastering skilled tasks that have always been performed by people.

Roughly 70% of all produce sold in the U.S. has pesticide residue in it, even after it is washed, according to a new report from the Guardian.

In less than two decades, SpaceX went from Elon Musk's dream of a greenhouse experiment on Mars to conducting the majority of U.S. rocket launches.

Best known for huge, highway-hogging motorhomes and travel trailers, Thor Industries became the world's largest RV manufacturer when it purchased Germany's Erwin Hymer Group earlier this year.

This is about 20 minutes long and shows a guy build an underground house with just a basket and a bamboo digging stick with metal blade. Truly impressive...

In the wake of the widely publicized "largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted" that broke last week, it has become clear that the SAT and ACT tests used to gauge student intellect for college admission (or at least their aptitude to take test

The bootstrapped LPP Fusion dense plasma focus nuclear fusion project will be starting a potentially big year of testing. They are completing work on their beryllium electrode.

China announced plans to invest 81.2 billion yuan (US$12 billion) in four new nuclear reactors for the first time since 2016. CNNP's reactors are planned in Zhangzhou city, Fujian province, while CGN will build the other two in Huizhou city, Guangd

nVidia's latest AI technology can instantly transform your doodles into photo-realistic scenes

Planet Labs received $168 million in funding and some of the funding will be to launch many more satellites. On April 1, 2019 they will launch 20 next-generation Dove satellites - Flock 4a - are scheduled to launch on ISRO's PSLV-C45 rocket.

If and when the Gateway outpost is deployed in 2023, it will need an airlock to get any useful work done, so ESA is working on a new egress point for scientific experiments for the cislunar manned laboratory. Based on two independent approaches by Ai

a computer capable of a quintillion calculations per second...Intel said on Monday that it would build the US's most powerful supercomputer, so fast that it could process 1 quintillion -- 1 billion times 1 billion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 -- c

Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google all default as women. But what if AI assistants thought beyond gender norms?

Airbus has begun shore-to-ship trials in Singapore with its #Skyways parcel delivery #drone. This marks the first time drone technology has been deployed in real port conditions, to deliver a variety of small, time-critical maritime essentials to wor

"We don't know if Lazareth is genuinely intending to test fly this thing," we wrote when we first saw La Moto Volante late last year, "or just present it as a work of art." Well, a new video answers that question pretty comprehensively, as it shows t

SpaceX will not build a new nosecone for the Starhopper. Elon Musk tweeted that the new nosecone is being built for the orbital Starship.

SpaceX will begin test firing the Starhopper. The Starhopper will be tethered and the hops will not be visible from offsite. This will likely be only a few feet or less of lift in the initial tests. The first integrated test firing of a single engine

The bootstrapped LPP Fusion dense plasma focus nuclear fusion project will be starting a potentially big year of testing. They are completing work on their beryllium electrode. If everything goes smoothly on four critical steps then this could be the

The bootstrapped LPP Fusion dense plasma focus nuclear fusion project will be starting a potentially big year of testing. They are completing work on their beryllium electrode. If everything goes smoothly on four critical steps then this could be the

Routine Eye Test Can Detect Earliest Stages of Alzheimer's in Seconds, According to New Research

John Preskill, Director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, presented an overview of quantum technology at the 2018 Q2B Conference.

Reaction Engine's Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) is closer to reality with ESA and the UK Space Agency (UKSA) green lighting the preliminary design of the demonstrator engine core.

Reaction Engine's Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) is closer to reality with ESA and the UK Space Agency (UKSA) green lighting the preliminary design of the demonstrator engine core.

This was last night's "one more thing."

Is Powerful Enough to Drive A Ford Fiesta For 750 Miles Without Refuelling...A hyper-efficient and super-light one-piston engine smaller than a backpack could render modern hybrids obsolete.

The SpaceX Starhopper is on a cement launch pad. Elon Musk has indicated the Raptor engine delivery and installation will start next week. SpaceX will one or three engines and begin hop tests.

Global emissions must be reduced by 60% before 2050 to avoid 2 degrees of global warming. However, energy consumption is doubling in the next 40 years due to an increasing world population and economic growth.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corporation have announced that they have agreed to a joint study of a concept for a manned lunar rover for long-range Moon exploration.

After earning a recommendation for the project from a Las Vegas' tourism authority last week, The Boring Company has today received the final tick of approval to move ahead with a transport loop beneath the city's convention center.

Roland Gumpert, of Audi Quattro and Apollo fame, has put forth a supercar that solves the problem of limited electric range and slow charging. The 800-horsepower, all wheel drive Nathalie uses a cheaply refuellable methanol fuel cell to charge its ba

If you would like to contribute to future Precariat animations, you can donate your computer time to cloud rendering. No knowledge of 3D animation is required.

Tesla bought Maxwell Technologies for their dry battery technology. Maxwell proved 300 Wh/kg energy density is which 20-40% better than current Tesla batteries.

How much more fun could drones be if you got fiddly hand controllers out of the way and flew them with your mind?

A UK-based team of researchers has created a graphene-based sieve capable of removing salt from seawater.

Solar power is remarkable, but it's unstable. Is it a clear day or did the clouds just roll in? The power is always in flux. That's why many solar panel owners choose to buy big batteries to store and sip energy all the time. But what if your ele

Wave Computing AI-enabled MIPS chips will support 80% of the self-driving and advanced driver assisted systems.

Goodyear introduces its latest concept tire at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show.

Jetpack Aviation has leap-frogged its own flying car project with the announcement that it's taking pre-orders now on a self-stabilizing, jet turbine-powered flying motorcycle capable of 150 mph speeds, 20 minute endurance and 15,000 ft altitudes.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released captivating footage of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft descending and making contact with the primordial asteroid Ryugu. During the rendezvous, the probe shot a bullet into the surface to kick up a

Chen Mingbo, head of the Shanghai city economic and information technology commission, has stated that Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory should be completed in May 2019.

Part of the Transhuman dream is to achieve God-like omniscience, which is the goal with brain implants. Who would control the knowledge available to you? Google. Proceed at your own risk. ? TN Editor

Full-size bus testing is underway. Some readers tell me this could not happen for decades. My calendar says its 2019.

Traditionally, welding has been limited to materials that share similar properties, so it's tough to make even aluminum and steel join forces. But now, scientists from Heriot-Watt University are claiming a breakthrough method that can weld together m

Scientists at KU Leuven in Belgium have developed a device that combines incoming solar energy and water vapor from the surrounding air to produce a record-breaking daily average of 250 liters (66 gal) of hydrogen throughout the year.

What if you could have a chip installed in your brain that would increase your intelligence? Would you be interested?

Elon Musk has always warned us about Artificial Intelligence(AI) and this is what he thinks about Google's Deep Mind and AI.

Sue Khim is the CEO of Brilliant. Brilliant is a problem-solving website in mathematics and science for high aptitude students. Brilliant aims to democratize the way smart, driven youth are identified and developed by making an intellectually challen

Robert Bigelow became a billionaire as the owner of Budget Suites of America hotels. But now he wants to build hotels in space. And his company Bigelow Aerospace is getting closer with their inflatable habitats.

Earlier this year, a company launched four tiny satellites into orbit without permission. These "rogue satellites" caused an uproar in the space community, and in the future, others like them could increase the risk of catastrophic collisions in

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