Stanford researchers are using computer algorithms that can see and learn to analyze millions of publicly available images on Google Street View to determine the political leanings of a given neighborhood just by…
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Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers
Origami-inspired muscles are both soft and strong, and can be made for less than $1 Researchers at Harvard and MIT have created origami-inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing…
Motorola Ad trolls Samsung which trolled Apple
Recently Samsung has started showing an ad for calling the Apple iphone users to switch to Samsung Galaxy phone. This ad tells the story of a loyal iPhone user who only upgraded…
Energy from Electric Cars could power our lives — but only if we improve the system
Power stored in electric cars could be sent back to the grid – thereby supporting the grid and acting as a potential storage for clean energy – but it will only be…
World’s smallest tape recorder is built from microbes
Through a few clever molecular hacks, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have converted a natural bacterial immune system into a microscopic data recorder, laying the groundwork for a new class of…