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MIT students will be gifted $100 worth of Bitcoin

MIT students will be gifted $100 worth of Bitcoin

If you're starting as an undergraduate at MIT this year, there's $100 coming your way. The catch -- if you…

10 years ago

Google May Get Into Wi-Fi And Cellphone Services

Google may be expanding its provision of public Wi-Fi according to planning documents for its high-speed broadband service. There's even…

10 years ago

Google Unwittingly Cracks Own Captchas

Google has developed an algorithm that can decipher house numbers from Street View images with impressive accuracy. The problem is…

10 years ago

Dying Grandmother Uses Oculus Rift to Travel, Climb Stairs Again [Video]

Roberta Firstenberg was dying of cancer and only had a few months to live. Priscilla, her granddaughter, emailed the Oculus…

10 years ago

Scientists Of 1975 Predict Today’s World

On Friday we looked back at psychics' predictions made in the 1975 book The People's Almanac, forecasting the rest of…

10 years ago

Are Your Socks Dumb? Then use the Smarter BLACKSOCKS! [Video]

You know how something is so outrageous, it's just gotta be true? Well, this concept is so outrageous, it totally…

10 years ago

WOW! Check out Honda’s AWESOME New Version of ASIMO, The Humanoid Robot [Videos]

The Asimo's latest edition, unveiled on April 16, can run briskly, climb stairs with ease, dance like Travolta, kick a…

10 years ago

Psychics Of 1975 Predict Today’s World

During a recent trip to Hay-on-Wye -- a magical small town with around 30 new and used bookshops -- I picked…

10 years ago

Report: Amazon to Reveal New Smartphone

First the Kindle brand, then the new Kindle Fire TV, and now...a smartphone! Amazon is rumored to be releasing a…

10 years ago

Drones Could ‘Refuel’ On Power Lines

An MIT student is working on a way for unmanned drones to recharge their power supply by perching on power…

10 years ago