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The University of Michigan is building a 32-acre model city for testing self-driving cars. The Mobile Transformation Facility will include both a city centre with the traditional grid model and a four-lane highway. Realistic features will include “merge lanes, stoplights, intersections, roundabouts, road signs, a railroad crossing, building facades, construction barrels and eventually a mechanical […]
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From black panther to Magneto, here are some of the world’s richest superheroes. [Source: buddyloans.com]
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Oregon and cities around the world are buying data on cyclists collected by Strava, a popular app.
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Fans of the popular book and film franchise The Hunger Games will recognize the hand signal instantly: the middle three fingers of the hand, raised to the sky. A gesture of resistance against the repressive government in the fictional world of Panem, it has now become a very real symbol of protest in Thailand at demonstrations against the junta that took power after the May 22 coup d’etat.
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A routine request in Florida for records detailing the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray turned extraordinary Tuesday when the U.S. Marshals Service seized the documents before local police could release them.
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Turns out, HealthKit already exists. And it’s an Australian startup that isn’t very happy with Apple’s name choice for its health-focused services.
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The sensor, which has a microprocessor built into its body, works by emitting a small electrical signal into the soil.
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