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iCandy: Phoning It In

Smartphones are dialed into medicine, motion pictures, and motoring

1 min read
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Photo: Yana Paskova/The New York Times/Redux
These men are on a quest to turn a subterranean cavern beneath New York City’s Delancey Street into a sunlit green space. They’re using technology in the form of fiber-optic cable that will channel the sun’s rays from remote skylights to the spot where they plan to create an underground park.

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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeComputingNews

Is the Turing Test Dead?

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EnergyTopicTypeNewsClimate Tech

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AerospaceTopicTypeFeature

Fly the Hybrid Skies

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