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Why it matters to you Giving robots smart sensing skin will provide them with a new way to perceive the world. Skin doesn’t just exist to keep our insides in; it’s also an incredibly useful material for sensing. Rather than having to rely on visuals to confirm that we are ...

Coway AP-1512HH Mighty Air Purifier Street price: $230; Deal price: $210 While we’ve seen deals as low as $160 before, those deals tend to last hours, not days. If you’re in need of a good air purifier and can’t wait, this $20 drop in price is a decent deal from ...

New York-based MongoDB went public on the Nasdaq on Thursday, finishing the day at $32.07, up 34% above its IPO price of $24. This is also above the proposed range of $20 to $22, which had been increased from $18 to $20. The IPO netted $192 million for the company ...

Why it matters to you Whether it’s for reasons of privacy or copyright protection, this smart LED lighting system disrupts camera sensors by producing a flickering pattern that ruins photos. In a world in which virtually everyone carries a high-quality camera with them in the form of a smartphone, enforcing ...

It’s unclear why it’s taken Adobe and Microsoft so long to get together on the Surface Dial, nor why the functionality is so limited. As Microsoft has just released its Surface Book 2, however, there may have been some pressure for Adobe to at least do something to help motivate ...

How fast the landscape seems to shift. SoftBank has been making waves in Silicon Valley since announcing its Vision Fund earlier this year. Now, one of SoftBank’s besties — the sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates, called the Mubadala Investment Company — is also making a splashy debut ...

Why it matters to you This new spray-on cement could help retrofit existing buildings to survive earthquake damage. Earthquakes can cause massive amounts of devastation. Using modern building materials and designs, architects have created a number of impressively reinforced buildings around the world which are able to survive quakes that ...

The service covers handbags and wallets valued more than $500 and produced by Balenciaga, Burberry, Céline, Chanel, Christian Dior, Fendi, Goyard, Gucci, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Prada or Valentino. Sellers who want the eBay Authenticate backing just have to send their item to the company for free via FedEx. Then once ...

It’s a tale as old as time. Entrepreneur meets VC. VC shells out a bunch of dough. Entrepreneur operates under threat of failure to turn that cash into a profit. And the cycle repeats. But James Rohrbach, a serial founder who sold his previous company to Noodle in 2010, wanted ...

While the 5G data connection news doesn’t sound very exciting on its own, it’s a sign that Qualcomm’s technology is closer to something that consumers can actually use. It’s also developed a tiny millimeter wave antenna module (above), which is the size of a nickel — significantly smaller than competing ...