In October 2010, this Boeing 787 Dreamliner, designated ZA006, became the sixth and final 787 to join the flight test program.
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McDonald&39's shows off a touch-screen kiosk installed in France in 2009.
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Lytro says its light-field camera, due to ship later this year, will let people change the focus of their photos after the fact.
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Everyone knows that speed cameras work.
They create the discipline of a lissom lady in leather and make sure everyone understands just what the rules...
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How do you expect to achieve immortality
Well, should sporting prowess have passed you by, or should you have suffered an unfortunate career-ending i...
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Can Spirit be revived
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The Spirit rover, currently out of commission on the surface of Mars, could be awakened in the coming weeks.
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The three-year wait for a recreational jetpack may be almost over--assuming regulators give their approval.
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Even those of us who cover e-commerce often overlook the reality of connecting the "e" part of the equation to the real world. Webvan and Kozmo.co...
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Telepresence robots are way cool, but way expensive. We've seen several platforms for these machines that let you remotely guide a robot around a d...
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Imagine if you could pray to your computer to stop the beach ball of doom from spinning, the blue screen of death from staring you in the face.
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In December, Boeing&39's Phantom Ray hitched a ride to California on the back of NASA&39's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
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A shining example of crowdsourcing at work, Ushahidi is mobilizing citizens to report and map conflicts. The project began as a way for Kenyans to log...
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The Active Scope Camera can worm its way into debris to seek survivors.
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Rescue robots are making...
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Researchers in Germany are reporting two thumbs up for their first clinical trial testing a remote-controlled capsule endoscope in the stomachs of he...
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There is no plane I feel safer in than a Boeing 747. Its sheer size and its apparent effortlessness offer something no other plane seems to manage: t...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Less than six weeks before launch, astronaut Timothy Kopra, injured in a bicycle accident Saturday, was removed from the ...
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Venture capitalists expect greater investment next year, while CEOs of VC-backed firms are looking at more work and more hiring, according to a repor...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--After three launch delays due to technical problems and bad weather, the shuttle Discovery was grounded again Friday. Its...
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You may have heard of Fold-It, which involves different approaches to folding proteins, and EteRNA, which lets players propose new molecular structur...
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Using a powerful new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what appears to be the most distant object ever observed, a sm...
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