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Goal Line Technology Could be Introduced to College Sports
Optical tracking, chipped balls and magnetic goal lines are already routine in professional sport. The question in college athletics is not whether they work,…
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Augmented Reality Review Process Is a Lot of Fun When Done Right
Spec sheets tell you nothing about a headset. We test ours on the same 800-metre loop through Shinjuku after dark, and almost everything fails…
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The Space Eye is Turning Towards the Mysterious Dyson Sphere Structure
A new infrared survey is quietly re-examining thousands of nearby stars for the waste heat a stellar-scale engineering project could not hide. So far…
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Splitting the Atom Was the Likely Turning Point in Energy Production
In December 1938 two chemists in Berlin found barium where barium should not have been. Everything about how the modern world makes electricity descends…
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