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Now, catch burglars the tech way

  Bloomberg It’s burglar catnip: a large, unoccupied home late at night, with iPads and laptops strewn temptingly around. Sure enough, one man did break in—exactly as the police had planned. Arrested, he protested his innocence, at least until law enforcement shined a black light in his direction and he glowed like a neon-yellow beacon. The bait he’d lifted was ...

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Spiderbots to build a city on the moon

  Peter Jeffrey / Bloomberg Who wants to work in 250-degree heat or scuttle into the center of a nuclear disaster to measure radiation levels? These fools do! They are robots from Siemens built like spiders, with a hive mind and 3D printers, so when they land on the moon they can, you know, build a city there, splitting up ...

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2016: The year that carmakers moved into mobility

  Relaxnews From Ford and GM to BMW and VW, 2016 has been as much about trying to solve consumers’ mobility issues as it has been about trying to sell people new cars. And as technological innovations continue to come thick and fast and urban areas become even more crowded, this could well prove to be the shape of automotive ...

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