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	Apple iPad Air “Pencil” Commercial has Bryan Cranston Narrating [VIDEO]
	Bryan Cranston is back for another unexpected role, this time as the narrator for Apple's first iPad Air television commercial. Titled "Pencil", the minute long piece compares the thin and powerful tablet to the combo of wood and graphite. The tabl...
	Anki Drive Connected Toy Car Gets a Teardown by iFixit
	Apple invited robotics company Anki on stage at the WWDC to show off its connected toy car game, Drive. It controls physical toy cars around a track with your iOS device. iFixit just got their hands on them and decided to find out what's underneath....
	Amazon's Huge Biodome Building Proposal Has Been Given the Green Light
	Amazon managed to gain initial approval to build a series of huge greenhouses in the middle of Seattle so its employees never need to leave work. The 65,000 square-foot, 95-feet tall, five-floor biodome structure will contain offices, dining areas, ...
	Science Has Finally Figured Why Kettles Whistle
	Guess what? For more than a century, scientists have been wondering why kettles whistle. That's right. And we all thought it was part of the design. Thankfully, that has finally been answered. Thanks to two scientists from the University of Cambridg...
	What an Instagram Ad Will Look Like
	Instagram ads are coming to your feed. Are you ready for it? Of course, the photo sharing app is well aware of the potential backlash that comes with ad integration, so they're easing it as slowly as possible. Some users in the U.S. have been seeing...
	New York Replacing 250,000 Street Lamps with LEDs
	New York city is preparing to replace its street lamps with LEDs. That's right, all 250,000! The project was announced by Mayor Bloomberg, and he pointed out that the shift to LED would save the city $6 million in energy costs and $8 million in main...
	LED Lighting Is Being Used to Comfort Intensive Care Unit Patients
	It's no surprise different kinds of lighting have different effects on us. Now Philips is planning to use LED lighting systems to improve patient care. It is already being developed for use in hospitals, in intensive care units. The company has deve...
	How Apple Made the All-New Mac Pro [VIDEO]
	Apple officially introduced the all new Mac Pro yesterday, featuring the latest intel Xeon processors with up to 12 cores. The workhorse includes a dual workstation-class GPUs, six Thunderbolt 2 ports, PCIe-based flash storage and ultra-fast ECC me...
	You'll Be Able to 3D Print Your Own Humanoid Robot Pal [VIDEO]
	Project Poppy's goal is to allow you to 3D print and assemble your own humanoid robot to play around with. The design team behind the project imagines a world where bipedal robots can be printed and assembled and programmed by their owners. Every p...
	NASA Transmits Data to the Moon At 622 Megabits Per Second
	NASA was able to transmit data at a rate of 62 megabits per second, completely error free to the moon! The laser sharp data demonstration named "Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD)" was deployed from a New Mexico ground station to a space...

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