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Nov 19

4 innovative toilet designs to talk about on World Toilet Day

By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins

In honor of World Toilet Day, we have compiled a list of a few innovative toilet designs that show promise in helping to solve sanitation and ecological problems.

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Nov 12

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Given Internet access, can kids really learn anything by themselves?

By PBS News Hour

It started with a hole in the wall. Sugata Mitra, working for a software company in Delhi, cut a gap between his firm and the slum next door, putting out an Internet-connected computer for kids in the community to use.

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Oct 22

Will you die prematurely? This blood test may contain the answer

By Nsikan Akpan

In a new study in Cell Systems, scientists present the possible reasons why a set of blood markers correlate with premature death in ostensibly healthy people.

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Oct 12

Can your ‘brain fingerprint’ reveal how smart you are?

By Nsikan Akpan

Neuroscientists at Yale University discover a way to identify individuals and predict their intelligence levels by using brain fingerprints based on functional MRI scans.

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Oct 08

Instead of a ‘dislike’ button, Facebook tests new set of reaction emojis

By Joshua Barajas

Facebook announced Thursday that it will test six new reaction emojis that express a range of emotions beyond the social network's iconic "like" button.

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Sep 15

Like this post: Facebook’s working on a ‘dislike’ button

By Joshua Barajas

Recognizing that the “like” button isn’t appropriate for all occasions from deaths to various tragic stories, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company is building a “dislike” button for the site.

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Mar 25

Photo essay: DIY airplanes, submarines, Lamborghini and other homemade Chinese inventions

By Laura Santhanam

What do restaurants, gunpowder and paper money have in common? They were all invented in China.

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Feb 20

Will your job exist in the future, or will a robot have replaced you?

By Simone Pathe

In the long view of history, technological advancement unleashed by the Industrial Revolution has come to be seen as a net positive for economic development and everyone’s well-being, even those workers who initially lost their jobs. There’s reason to wonder,…

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Dec 18

Reinventing the way chemicals are made to make them cheaper and cleaner

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Scientists are changing the way chemicals are made to make new drugs, smart materials and agroproducts in a cleaner, safer way. Miles O'Brien has this report from "Science Nation."…

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Nov 21

Uber’s boys club is what’s wrong with Silicon Valley

By Vivek Wadhwa

Uber is one of the most hated companies in the technology industry, writes Vivek Wadhwa. But its disrepute is largely because of its arrogance and frat-boy behavior—not only its business practices. And this behavior is only slowing the company down.

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