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A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.
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Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.
It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.
There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts.