Walking while texting could mean jail time under New Jersey proposal

Jared Schumacher is one of hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans who routinely use electronic devices to text, listen to music or do other tasks as they walk outdoors. If…

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How South America’s lithium triangle is gearing up to feed our battery addiction

Far from the soy and cattle that dominate its vast fertile pampas, Argentina harbours another valuable commodity that is rocketing in price and demand and luring newly welcomed foreign investors.…

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Government keeping its method to crack San Bernardino iPhone ‘classified’

A new method to crack open locked iPhones is so promising that US government officials have classified it, the Guardian has learned. The Justice Department made headlines on Monday when…

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Alone together: my weird morning in a virtual reality chatroom

I’m standing in front of a decorative garden talking to a guy from Germany about PC specifications. This is not really what I was hoping for from the future of…

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World’s thinnest lens measures a barely-there 6.3 nm thick

A team from the Australian National University (ANU) has created the world’s thinnest lens, one two-thousandth the thickness of a human hair (Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU). View gallery (4 images)…

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Review: You can ride on the Jurni carry-on case, but don’t ride it too hard

The Jurni has a simple black body and cheerful highlighting, available in a range of colors (Credit: Stu Robarts/Gizmag). View gallery (21 images) Towards the end of last year, Trunki…

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Spongy polymer grows to fill gaps in the spine after surgery

Use of the polymer graft could provide a non-invasive and inexpensive method for filling gaps in the spine left after the removal of tumors (Credit: American Chemical Society). Removing spinal…

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Seagate Introduces 10 GBps NVMe SSD, Might Be Micron NAND Inside

Seagate announced a new NVMe PCIe SSD at the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference that can attain up to 10 GBps of throughput. Seagate is not releasing many details of…

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Construction workers walk off Tesla’s new Reno site in protest over pay

Hundreds walk off job at battery manufacturing plant as union organizers say out-of-state workers are increasingly being hired for lower pay The Tesla Gigafactory is shown under construction outside Reno,…

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Japan recognises ‘right to be forgotten’ of man convicted of child sex offences

Court orders Google to hide news reports of Japanese man saying criminals are entitled to have their private lives ‘respected and rehabilitation unhindered’ A court in Tokyo has ordered Google…

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