Driving a “Lunar” Rover, From the Space Station and other top stories.

• Driving a “Lunar” Rover, From the Space Station

  

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• Puma's robotic running companion can keep pace with Usain Bolt

  

  The robot works by scanning lines on the track with an array of nine IR sensors, while wheel rotations are monitored via Arduino to keep track of speed and distance. BeatBot's also outfitted with LED lights on the back and dual GoPro cameras. If you figured this would be expensive, you're right. Even though there isn't an exact price, for now, BeatBot will only be offered to Puma-sponsored teams and athletes. Until that changes, you'll just have to make due the old fashioned way: finding a fast..

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• These dozing 'dragons' could change how we think about sleep

  

  Am Australian bearded dragon (Stephan Junek/Max Planck Institute for Brain Research via Reuters) The dragon's eyes twitch under its lids. An electronic monitor hooked up to its brain shows activity spiking across it. Somewhere inside its reptilian subconscious, a dream may be playing out — of enjoying a satisfying meal or relaxing on a sun-baked stone. The dragon is sleeping, scientists say. Not just resting, the way fish and wasps and even amoebas do, but really, truly sleeping, the way hu..

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• Blackroom, New Game From 'Doom' Creators, Taken Down From Kickstarter

  

  Blackroom, the new project being developed by "Doom" creators John Romero and Adrian Carmack, had its Kickstarter campaign taken down. The game holds a lot of promise, so why was its crowdfunding canceled?(Photo : Night Work Games | Kickstarter) Blackroom, the new project being developed by John Romero and Adrian Carmack under Night Work Games, is a first-person shooter that holds a lot of promise. Romero and Carmack are known for their role in bringing massively popular franchises Doom and Qu..

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• Microsoft declares Cortana search box as Bing- and Edge-only turf

  

  Microsoft on Thursday began blocking rival browsers and search providers from using Windows 10's Cortana search box, the operating system's prime search real estate."To ensure we can deliver the integrated search experience designed for Windows 10, Microsoft Edge will be the only browser that will launch when you search from the Cortana box," said Ryan Gavin, general manager of search marketing, in a post to a Microsoft company blog.The Cortana search box -- at the lower left of the Windows..

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