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Mack DeGeurin

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Mack DeGeurin is a tech reporter who’s spent years investigating where technology and politics collide. His work has previously appeared in Gizmodo, Insider, New York Magazine, and Vice.

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Google Street View helps catch suspect of a grisly crime

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People keep falling for fake ‘drones over Jersey’ videos

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A digital license plate made by Bay Area company Reviver Auto is displayed at Reviver Auto headquarters on May 30, 2018 in Foster City, California.
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Researchers hack digital license plates, demonstrating way to evade tolls and cops

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Friday November 15, 2025. Zhigang Chen Thermoelectric device. Prof. Chen and his team from ARC Research Hub in Zero-emission Power Generation for Carbon Neutrality (ZeroPC) have developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat instead of batteries and be utilized for chip cooling.
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Cruise had planned to expand its testing and offer autonomous rides through the Uber app as early as 2025.
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GM is killing Cruise robotaxis

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Electric Vehicles

Surprise: EV batteries might have a longer shelf live than once thought

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An oil rig in Oklahoma.
AI

‘A needle in a haystack:’ How AI is helping uncover abandoned oil wells

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Scientists are drawn to coral because its surface resembles the spongy structure of human bones.
Health

3D-printed, coral-inspired material can heal bones

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Researchers say they were inspired by the way the Manta ray effortlessly propels itself forward using its fins.
Animals

This Manta ray robot is the world’s fastest soft-bodied swimmer

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A Tesla Model 3 engaged in the so-called ‘Full Self Driving’ mode reportedly plowed through a deer without ever detecting it. While more advanced driverless systems use a mix of sensors including LiDAR, Tesla is trying to attain full autonomy using only cameras.
Ask Us Anything

Why are ‘driverless’ cars still hitting things?

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Animals

How did Thanksgiving turkeys get so darn big?

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Animals

A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years

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The Shadow Robot company's Dextrous Robotic Hand was the most advanced robot hand in the world in 2008.
Robots

Why advanced robots still struggle with simple tasks

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Aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of the lithium mine of the Chilean company SQM (Sociedad Quimica Minera) in the Atacama Desert, Calama, Chile, on September 12, 2022.
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‘Everything has a cost:’ High-tech products and the new era of mineral mining

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An AI-generated rendition of the "Daisy" AI bores a scammer with descriptions of her fictional cat.
AI

This AI-generated grandma thwarts scammers with long stories about her cat

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Goodbye, annoying touchscreens. Welcome back, buttons?

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Professor Jade Morton (co-author) posing with a phone and a monitoring station at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A monitoring station has a large and expensive antenna. Phones have smaller antennas, which leads to noisier measurements, but phones are present in more parts of the world.
Science

Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS

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Animals

Why scientists made vampire bats run on treadmills

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Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China's Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not via volcanism, as previously thought.
Archaeology

Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways

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