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• Smoke can hide unconscious victims from firefighters
• Firefighters have used thermal cameras to locate victims
• New device projects thermal image into firefighters’ masks

What’s the most dangerous thing in a fire?

If you think it’s the flames or the heat, that’s understandable: those are dangerous, too. But both from a victim’s and a firefighter’s perspective, the deadliest enemy is smoke.

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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, the founder and chairman of popular e-commerce service Alibaba, is warning us that the next 30 years of technological development may bring us more anguish than happiness.

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Scientists discovered four new types of blood cells.

“We are creating AI, not Terminator.” A Russian official tweeted this video of a robot that can shoot guns.

This suit might change the way animated movies are made.

The Apple store in Dubai has the coolest windows.

This snake robot can climb walls.