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Wi-Fi signals can identify you through walls and even track your movements

It’s fair to say that Wi-Fi has become a pretty indispensable part of modern-day life, but it seems the technology can do a heck of a lot more than just stream data to and from our digital devices. Researchers in the US have developed a system called RF Capture that uses wireless signals to detect and track human motion throughout a building, even when people are behind walls or furniture, or are in rooms at the opposite end of the building. In a paper that will be presented at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 conference next month, researchers from the Massachusetts Institut

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There’s a record-breaking ozone hole over Antarctica, but experts say not to worry

The surface area of the Antarctic ozone hole has been abnormally large for this time of year, breaking records in terms of its size for most of October. But scientists say there’s no cause for alarm, as the expansion is expected to be temporary in nature due to seasonal fluctuations. Researchers from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the official weather and climate agency of the United Nations, announced the news of the atypically large ozone hole this week, which reached its maximum extent on October 2 with an area of 28.2 million km2. (more…)

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we’ve invented a Star Trek-style sonic tractor beam

When you thought that film tricks was just child play...  You know that scene in an alien movie were all of a sudden an unseen elevator is carrying the humans up into the spaceship, well scientist have done the imaginable they have created a version of that technology. When I think of a tractor beam - a stream of energy that can move objects - I imagine a ray emerging from a spaceship gripping an object outside and pulling it in. In my mind this spaceship is the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, but the idea has been used in countless science fiction plots. But in

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Nike’s power-laced ‘Back to the Future’ shoes will be available in 2016 Fly?

It's gonna fly me to space in 2016! lol Just kidding thou... In an effort to celebrate Back to the Future Part II, NIKE has made those shoes you love so dearly. But, don't worry the flying version will be coming out next y...(You didn't hear it from me). "We started creating something for fiction and we turned it into fact, inventing a new technology that will benefit all athletes," says Nike CEO, Mark Parker. (more…)