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A Tight Spot
Automakers have long been focused on perfecting the technology to move a car autonomously from Point A to Point B. Now, with fully autonomous vehicles inching toward mainstream reality, car…
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Peak Energy
"Hedonistic sustainability." That's how Bjarke Ingels, founder of architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), describes the newest Danish waste management facility, CopenHill. Completed in October…
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Learning to Float
Project teams are taking solar on a virtual boat ride, creating floating farms that gain maximum exposure to the sun. In India, plans are underway for the government to set up a 1,000-megawatt…
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Scanning the Horizon
Better bar codes are finally on the way. Although it has revolutionized how the world does business, bar code technology has changed little since it arrived in 1974. United Airlines' mobile…
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Branching Out
Banks are launching tech-centric projects to transform the brick-and-mortar experience for customers in the digital age—and not a moment too soon. In the United States, branch closures reached an…
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Enhanced Existence
Augmented reality (AR) is getting increasingly real. Thanks to the ubiquity of social media and smartphones, more consumers have access to AR than ever before—though they may not realize it. At the…
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Waste Not, Want Not
If the high cost of private healthcare in the United States wasn’t bad enough, much of that expense is avoidable. According to a 2019 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, about…
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Trading Transformed?
Blockchain—the technology that made cryptocurrency mainstream—is now entering the U.S. stock market. In November, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved a pilot project to use…
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Stream On
As video game publishers and tech companies hustle to complete streaming projects, the pressure is on to nail minimum viable product features—or risk losing serious ground to competitors.…
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Personal Space
The past half-century has been crammed with space exploration breakthroughs and technological innovations. But for much of that time, NASA failed to adapt its astronaut suit. Largely untouched since…
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