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Oct 7, 2020

WATCH: This New Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal Can Move

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Circa 2015


First we kick them, then we give them the tools they need to destroy all of humanity. Good job, us.

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Oct 7, 2020

GMC Hummer EV Dubbed World’s First Electric ‘Supertruck’ In New Teaser: Video

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GMC is going straight for Tesla’s electric performance crown, it seems.

Oct 7, 2020

Deepfake Yourself with Nvidia Maxine’s Video Chat Tools

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Imagine wearing a mask of your own face to work.


Nvidia’s new video chat platform will make video chats more professional, if it can survive the uncanny valley first.

Oct 7, 2020

AL-SUS Step Lift

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This step lift turns a staircase into an escalator.

Oct 6, 2020

Mercedes Future Truck!

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Does this make you feel uncomfortable?? Take a look at the tech 🤩 in this truck! Mercedes-Benz truck of the future…thoughts?

Oct 5, 2020

Researchers find ‘Queen of the Ocean’ ancient great white shark off Nova Scotia coast

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The shark, named Nukumi by researchers, is more than 17 feet long, 3,541 pounds and believed to be about 50-years-old.


Researchers off the coast of Nova Scotia found a nearly 2-ton great white shark believed to be roughly 50 years old, dubbing her a true “Queen of the Ocean.”

Coming in at more than 17 feet long and 3,541 pounds, she is the largest shark the group has been able to sample in the Northwest Atlantic, according to a Friday Facebook post by OCEARCH, a non-profit marine research organization. She’s been named Nukumi for “the legendary wise old grandmother figure” of the Indigenous Mi’kmaq people, a First Nations group native to that region of Canada.

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Oct 5, 2020

Russian surfers say mystery ocean pollution is poisoning them and killing animals

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Images on social media show masses of sea life washed up on the beaches of Kamchatka, and water tests found high levels of oil products and other compounds.

Oct 4, 2020

A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France

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A rock structure, built deep underground, is one of the earliest hominin constructions ever found.

Oct 4, 2020

Scientists Create Clear, Glasslike Material Out of Wood

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It’s a lucrative concept that has drawn the attention of researchers across the globe in recent years.


But thanks to a new generation of futuristic building materials, those materials could be poised for a significant upgrade. A team of researchers at the USDA and several research institutions say they’ve developed “transparent wood,” a glass-like material made almost entirely out of trees that they claim is stronger, safer, more cost efficient and more thermally efficient than glass.

Kicking Glass

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Oct 4, 2020

Archaeologists Just Unveiled a Fully Intact Mummy That’s Been Sealed For 2,500 Years

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O,.o.


Archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that were buried more than 2,500 years ago.

Opening one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi before assembled media, the team revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hieroglyphic inscriptions in bright colours.

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