You Know, Just a Giant Spider Robot w/ Snakes For Legs

Come on — you can kick harder than that! What is this, an 8-and-under kickball league? This is a video from the apocalypse-hurrying jerks at Carnegie Mellon’s Biorobotics Lab of a hexapod spider bot with modified robot snakes for…

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Marriott no longer wants to block guests’ WiFi devices

Marriott’s (thankfully) raising the white flag and admitting defeat to Google, Microsoft and everyone else lobbying against its plans to block WiFi devices inside its hotels. The company has issued a statement that makes its new stance clear: guests …

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Hyperloop test track likely bound for Texas

Tesla CEO and SpaceX CTO Elon Musk took to Twitter this afternoon to provide a bit more info on his Hyperloop project. According to the tweet, the 700-MPH transit system will get a test track where both companies and student teams can visit to test p…

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Braille for the mouth could help deaf people hear

The one thing that every technologist shares is the desire to solve a problem, and there are several as-yet unsolved issues that relate to disability. It’s not all bad news, however, since in the last few months we’ve seen inventions that help the bl…

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