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Don’t give up on MOOCs yet. That’s the message from MIT computer science professor Anant Agarwal, also the founder and CEO of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based non-profit, edX.
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Through apps and accessories our smartphones can be almost any digital tool we could ever need, including a thermal camera as FLIR showed us
earlier this year. Not surprisingly, competing products to the FLIR ONE have started to appear, including the Seek thermal camera which promises a considerably smaller form factor and a cheaper price tag, without sacrificing too much in terms of its capabilities.
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If you’re lucky enough to catch a glimpse of cardboard’s enemy list, you’ll probably find water up near the top alongside cats and fire. The two just don’t mix, which is why it’s incredibly impressive that Ernest Packaging Solutions, working with the folks from Signal Snowboards, were able to make a surfboard out of cardboard that didn’t disintegrate as soon as it touched the ocean.
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With her maiden flight just a few short weeks away, the newest 787—and the first for Virgin Atlantic—is all set to take to the skies. And to honor this momentous machine, Virgin has just released this stunning time lapse video of its construction.
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Most bridges are compromises: Cars want to speed low and straight across the water, but but boats want to pass under them. So we wind up with either tall bridges (expensive) or moveable bridges (clunky and awkward). But now a Dutch engineering firm has come up with a radical solution that doesn’t involve the bridge—instead, it lowers the water 26 feet to let ships safely pass.
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Meet Nixie, a wearable camera that flies off your wrist and turns into a remote-controlled quadcopter. It’s the bizarre-yet-appealing wearable camera drone nobody asked for… and now I kind of want it.
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There are probably lots of justifiable reasons why carmakers haven’t got around to making an electric pickup that anyone can buy (range and demand would be just two), but that doesn’t mean such vehicles don’t exist. Engineers at Nissan, with a little…
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