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Kelly Paik

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Kelly Paik writes about science and technology for Fanvive. When she's not catching up on the latest innovations, she uses her free-time painting and roaming to places with languages she can't speak. Because she rather enjoys fumbling through cities and picking things on the menu through a process of eeny meeny miny moe.
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Bill Gates launches $1 billion dollar fund to look for clean energy solutions

Bill Gates thinks we need better ideas for producing clean energy and combating climate change. So he’s throwing more than $1 billion into a...
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Amazon Go will get rid of the checkout line on your next grocery run

Nobody likes waiting in lines. So it’s no wonder Amazon’s idea of a grocery store with no checkout line is getting such a glowing...
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FDA approves more trials for prescription ecstasy

America is in the midst of shifting its attitudes toward the use of marijuana for medical purposes and it’s possible MDMA is poised to...
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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs wants to give cities a technology makeover

What would you do if you could redesign a whole city using whatever technology you wanted? That lofty question is exactly what Alphabet’s Sidewalk...
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Another lawsuit piles onto Theranos’s woes

Already bogged down under a series of lawsuits and federal investigations, medical startup Theranos just got hit with a new suit last week. This...

The Great Barrier Reef just went through the biggest die-off in history

Coral reefs have been in trouble for a while now but some years are definitely worse than others. Unfortunately, the ARC Centre of Excellence...
Facial ID using iPad

Your face is all you need to enter the Chinese tourist town Wuzhen

Visitors at one tourist destination in China no longer need to carry around tickets, stamps, or IDs to get into the park. Just their...
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Facebook is finally doing something about fake news

Facebook will tackle its fake news problem but don’t expect technology to solve everything Fake news online is by no means a new problem. But...
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Google wants to help you avoid the lines with real-time crowd tracking

This holiday season, Google wants to help you avoid the crowds as you go out on your merry way shopping and eating. The company...
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Stephen Hawking says we’ll go extinct on Earth in 1000 years

Stephen Hawking just gave humankind a 1000-year deadline to get off this planet and find new homes elsewhere. It’s because the renowned cosmologist doesn’t...

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Facebook now uses a selfie to prove your identity

The next time Facebook notices suspicious activity on your account, they could be asking you to verify your identity via selfie. The social media...
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Google now shows wait times for sit down restaurants and soon grocery stores

Google has once again improved the live search results returned for businesses. Last year Google added the ability to do real time crowd tracking....
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No one’s in the driver’s seat of these driverless cars by Waymo

This week, Waymo debuted a public test of their self-driving cars in the Phoenix metro area with one very important thing missing - a...