Blind Inventor Creates WeWALK Smart Cane That Uses Google Maps To Help The Visually Impaired
“In these days we are talking about flying cars, but these people have been using just a plain stick.” WeWALK / TwitterThe WeWALK smart cane...
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2,000-Year-Old Scrolls From Vesuvius Eruption To Be ‘Virtually Unraveled’ With A.I.
The fragile scrolls from the ancient city of Herculaneum have been destroyed by physical unwrapping, and so scientists plan to use A.I. and machine learning...
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Hotpot Pursuit: Chinese Police Arrest Fugitive After Finding His Apartment Through Scent Of His Dinner
When facial recognition failed to track down a fugitive, Chinese police relied on a more primitive instinct: smell. PixabayA man who had been on the...
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A Moon Elevator Is Both Inexpensive And Entirely Doable, Study Says
The lunar space elevator would dangle in orbit above Earth and be held taut by our planet’s gravity. You’d reach the moon after a short...
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Remains And Car Of Missing Man Found After 22 Years — Thanks To Google Earth
William Earl Moldt was last seen leaving a nightclub in his car by himself in 1997. Two decades later, his remains and car were found...
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Inside The Nazis’ Forced Labor Camps — And The Companies That Reaped The Benefits
The Nazis told their prisoners, Arbeit macht frei, or “Work sets you free.” In truth, millions of forced laborers were worked to death. In December...
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Meet Ada Lovelace, One Of The World’s First Computer Programmers
In the mid-1800s, Ada Lovelace saw the full potential of computers more than a century before they were a reality. Wikimedia CommonsLady Ada Lovelace, a...
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Inside The Cement Tube Homes That Might Be The Future Of Hong Kong’s Housing
Plagued by overcrowding, Hong Kong has been exploring creative options to accommodate its burgeoning population. One such option? A retrofitted cement water pipe called an...
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British Company Releases Pictures Of World’s First ‘Smart Condoms’
These days, most people have some kind of smart device, whether it be a phone, watch, or something that helps you track your daily steps....
