GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	More People Are Afraid of Being Hacked than Spied On
	People are more creeped out by the possibility of a person or group hacking their personal information, instead of the idea that someone might be tracking their online movements and habits. According to the study, conducted for the Computer and Com...
	Marketing in 2014 Could Include Lots of Beards, Humans and Metaphors
	How is marketing going to look like in 2014? iStock by Getty Images compiled this chart so you can get ready to resist the marketing genius of 2014. That includes beards, and a lot of diverse humans. Are you ready? [PR Daily]
	The DARPA Challenge Is Hosting the Future of Robotics Now [VIDEO]
	The DARPA Robotics Challenge is now officially underway. You can watch a live stream of it right now. Thankfully, they aren't Terminators just yet. The tasks set before these bots are pretty challenging. The various teams involved are hoping to...
	Did You Know Someone is Making a Flying Bicycle? [VIDEO]
	Just when you thought jetpacks had all the glory of gifting you with flying powers, now someone is making a flying bicycle. Four companies in the Czech Republic are collaborating on the F-Bike. It flew for the first time this summer.The bike has fo...
	Paris Patient is The First to Get Half-Cow, Half-Machine Artificial Implanted
	Here's a medical feat. A breakthrough! French surgeons implanted a Carmat artificial heart in a human patient for the very first time. It combines mechanical components and heart tissue derived from cows, designed to be used for up to five years. Th...
	Here's The First Conversation Between a Human and a Robot in Space [VIDEO]
	Here's the conversation with Kirobo - the first talking robot in space when it arrived on the International Space Station this year with astronaut Koichi Wakata. Kirobo was designed to process and respond to questions, so, it kind of makes space a ...
	Google Has a $82 Million Corporate Jet Facility
	Google is set to break ground on a new corporate jet facility for use by its top executives and other tech industry titans. The 29 acre facility will feature 270,000 square feet of hangar space allowing Google to have its own airport. The facility c...
	Warby Parker Raises $60 Million in Series C Funding
	Warby Parker raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding, according to Fortune. It was led by Tiger Global Management, a previous investor, and brings the company's total funding to well over $100 million since it was founded in 2010.Warby Par...
	Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android When Apple Launched the iPhone
	Apple changed the landscape of smartphones forever when it launched the first iPhone in January 2007. There were some who could adapt to the new normal, but the ones who were slow suffered the most. Google was the first to recognize how important th...
	Earthrise. How The Iconic Photo Almost Didn't Happen
	45 years ago this coming Christmas eve, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders became the first humans to leave Earth's orbit and circle the moon. But the more memorable part of the mission was its famous "Earthrise" photo, ...

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