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Panasonic Sets World Record in Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Efficiency
Energy

Panasonic takes top spot on conversion efficiency of a crystalline silicon-based PV module from rival SunPower.

Facebook is Integrating Oculus into its Platform. Oculus Co-founder Skeptical
Meta

"Facebook the social networking tool as it exists today is not necessarily the future of VR."

Revolutionary Procedure Will Allow Kidney Transplants From Any Donor
Prosthetics and Devices

Eventually, the procedure could also be used for liver and lung transplants.

The ‘Netflix of Virtual Reality’ is Bringing March Madness to VR
Virtual Reality

3D virtual reality provider NextVR is bringing more content to their platform.

Self Filling Water Bottles Have Arrived, but Just How Viable Are They?
Robots and Machines

This self-filling bottle turns *air* into drinking water. So, why aren't we all carrying it around?

This Virtual Reality App Lets You Use Your Phone to Meet People in Imaginary Worlds
Virtual Reality

Now you can meet others in virtual reality in real time.

You Can Help Make a Real Hyperloop Pod for SpaceX
Hyperloop

The internet is being used in the best way possible - to help make the hyperloop a reality.

We Just Created the World’s Thinnest Lens—And It’s Going to Revolutionize Our Screens
Robots and Machines

This could allow us to manipulate the flow of light in atomic scales.

Researchers Are Studying How They Can Achieve Matrix-Level Immersion in Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality

We're trying to see if there is a way to convince the brain that we are physically feeling something that is purely virtual.

Scientists Create a Hybrid Gene That Lets Them Control Mice Using Magnets
Science & Energy

By creating a hybrid gene, researchers are able to control mice with magnetic fields.

World First: Woman Has Tumour On Lung Removed By a Robot
Artificial Intelligence

Now, we have cancer fighting robots.

South Africa is Using Drones to Combat Poaching
Drones

When Air Shepherd drones are flying, poaching stops.

Germaphobes Rejoice! Scientists Made A Self-Cleaning Bathroom
Science & Energy

Facebook Is Training Its Artificial Intelligence to Understand Language
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook is training its AI to understand language by teaching it to read children's books.

Scientists Find Mysterious, Repeating Radio Bursts Emanating From Space
Off-World

New discovery debunks existing theories that fast radio bursts are caused by cosmic cataclysmic events—could there be something deliberate and conscious behind these regular radio signals?

Blue Origin is Making Space Tourism a Reality. Here’s How
Blue Origin

New Shepard, Blue Origin's suborbital spacecraft, will undergo crewed testing by next year.

This New Biosensor Can Diagnose Cancer and Other Diseases on the Spot
Science & Energy

And it can provide results in as little as 15 minutes!

This Flexible Film Could Be the Key To Making Invisibility Cloaks
Robots and Machines

This new material could be used to coat (and thus, cloak) objects.

More Than 30 Billion Light-Years Away, Hubble Captures the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Found
Off-World

You are seeing this galaxy as it existed 13.4 billion years in the past.

Stem Cell Breakthrough Restores Sight in Rabbits, Humans are Next
Prosthetics and Devices

Japanese researchers cultured and grew sheathes of rabbit cornea that restored sight in blind rabbits.