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Google could be readying itself for the home robot market. According to a new patent, the tech giant has been working on a bot that moves autonomously throughout the home and can chat with family members and respond to queries. It might even be able to help with physical tasks. The …

In the last few decades, astronomers have slowly but surely added to the number of known exoplanets. Even the largest planets can be hard to spot, though, and moons are even smaller. Well, usually. A team working with data from the dearly departed Kepler space telescope has reported a possible …

  Less than two months ago, Tesla announced it would accept Bitcoins as payment for vehicles in lieu of cash. Now, the company has halted those plans, citing fears that continuing with them could cause environmental damage. Here’s the statement from CEO Elon Musk. The embed may be a bit …

An international team of researchers has proposed and demonstrated an efficient approach for triggering, trapping and guiding electrical discharges in air. Their technology is based on the use of a low-power laser beam that traps and transports light-absorbing particles in mid-air. Experimental configuration and principles of optical vortex beam for …

  When Microsoft introduced Windows 10 2004 earlier this year, it shipped an errata that may have shortened your SSD’s longevity depending on how often you reboot your machine. The good news is that a fix is on the way and that the problem shouldn’t have caused too many problems …

How connected TV measurement proves its A lot has been written about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world of advertising. Budgets were decimated and marketers scrambled to find other ways to do more with less. One of the less talked about themes, however, has been how the …

The final game for the Warwick High girls soccer team in 2016 showed both the Raiders’ potential and how far they still had left to go. “We were really upset at first, but I think that’s also helped us this season because now we know what we can do,” Warwick …

A study led by University of Tasmania researchers Cesar Tovar and Gregory Woods has shown that immunotherapy can cure Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) of the devil facial tumor disease. The findings are published in the journal Scientific Reports. Young Tasmanian devil. Image credit: Keres H. / CC BY-SA 4.0. Tasmanian …

The green-tea polyphenol Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) may be of particular benefit to patients struggling with amyloidosis and multiple myeloma, according to an international team of researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis. The research is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. According to Kathrin Andrich et al, the …

A team of researchers at the University of Virginia has devised a new imaging approach that combines powerful aspects of both magnetic resonance imaging and gamma-ray imaging. Prof. Gordon Cates and Dr. Wilson Miller with the unique imaging apparatus the team built in their lab. Image credit: Dan Addison / …