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There won’t be Love and Sex with Robots

There won’t be Love and Sex with Robots

IF you were hoping to gain some expert knowledge on the ethics and practicality of intimate human/robot relationships, you’re out of luck.

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The world’s most unnecessary gadget

The world’s most unnecessary gadget

THIS looks like a normal light bulb. It makes the room bright. But it’s got a second hidden feature not usually seen on a light. What were they thinking?

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The most gruesome series ever created

The most gruesome series ever created

THE sixth season of The Walking Dead has started and the special effects make-up designer has warned there will be record amounts of blood and guts.

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This foldable keyboard is pure genius

This foldable keyboard is pure genius

THIS foldable keyboard developed by Microsoft promises to offer a solution to many gripes of smart device users.

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A Shinkansen train pulls into Tokyo Station on January 3, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: iStock

Australia’s huge high speed fail

HOP aboard a train from Sydney to Melbourne and you’re in for a gruelling 11-hour ride. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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CREDIT: Patent Yogi London to New York in an hour: Airbus' latest patent hints at 'Concorde 2' hypersonic jet

The next step in hypersonic aviation

DUBBED the ‘Concorde 2’, this futuristic craft could transport passengers close to 6000 kilometres in just over an hour – but don’t expect a ticket to come cheap.

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Ed O'Neill and Eric Stonestreet in TV's Modern Family, Channel 10

How to make your own man cave or she shed

EVERYBODY needs a sanctuary. Ladies and gentlemen, here’s how to create the ultimate home-escape yourself.

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Elon Musk, Chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCity's Inside Energy Summit in Manhattan, New York October 2, 2015. SolarCity on Friday said it had built a solar panel that is the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity. REUTERS/Rashid Umar Abbasi

‘Apple is the Tesla Graveyard’

IT appears Elon Musk is not Apple’s biggest fan. During a recent interview, the Tesla CEO took some very public pot shots at his competitor.

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This film image released by Disney shows, Iron Man, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr., left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, in a scene from

‘Iron Man suit’ only two years away

SEEING Iron Man fighting on the front line is more than just a script idea, with the military only two years away from debuting a suit similar to the superhero.

You wish you could work here

You wish you could work here

LOCATED in one of San Francisco’s roughest areas, this tech giant’s office is a dreamland of free food and fun zones. We took a look inside.

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Ahmed Mohamed, 14, gestures as he arrives to his family's home in Irving, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Ahmed was arrested Monday at his school after a teacher thought a homemade clock he built was a bomb. He remains suspended and said he will not return to classes at MacArthur High School. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Richard Dawkins slams teenage ‘fraud’

THE world can’t stop talking about this teenager, who was arrested for taking a clock to school. He’s been accused of being a phony.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 09: Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses a rally against the Iran nuclear deal on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol September 9, 2015 in Washington, DC. Thousands of people gathered for the rally, organized by the Tea Party Patriots, which featured conservative pundits and politicians. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

‘That’s a clock, and I’m the Queen’

SARAH Palin has spoken out against the teenage whiz-kid who was arrested after bringing a clock to school, suggesting he deserved what he got.

In this Sept. 14, 2015 photo provided by Eyman Mohamed, her brother Ahmed Mohamed stands in handcuffs at Irving police department in Irving, Texas. The 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday, Sept. 16 and got an invitation to the White House after word spread that he had been placed in handcuffs and suspended for coming to class with a homemade clock that school officials thought resembled a bomb. (Eyman Mohamed via AP)

From cop shop to White House

HIS innocent invention was so controversial that he was arrested. Now, the world’s most powerful men have weighed into his extraordinary ordeal.

AN image of crown-of-thorns starfish dining-out on coral at Lizard Island has won PhD student Richard Wylie a ‘highly commended’ award in the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography for 2014. The School of Education at Southern Cross University student’s graphic photograph, aptly entitled ‘Thorny Problems’, shows that even one 40cm wide crown-of-thorns can eat its way through a large area of reef. MUST CREDIT

Starfish, meet your terminator

A KILLER robot is about to be let loose in Australia. It’s mission: To hunt down and destroy the crown-of-thorns starfish that are murdering the Great Barrier Reef.

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Spaceliner - The SpaceLiner vision of a rocket-propelled intercontinental passenger transport could push spaceflight further than any other credible scenario. Picture: German Aerospace Centre

‘Australia to Europe in just 90 minutes’

A GERMAN aerospace agency is working hard to develop a futuristic rocket-propelled jet that promises to fly passengers from Australia to Europe in just 90 minutes.

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Finally, we can see a hoverboard in action

Finally, we can see a hoverboard in action

AFTER a month of teasing the public with is hoverboard, luxury car maker Lexus has released a video showing it in action. It’s pretty sick.

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Outrageous plan for ‘rollercoaster-plane’

Outrageous plan for ‘rollercoaster-plane’

AIRBUS has patented a hypersonic jet that could take you from London to New York in an hour. But it’s not for the faint-hearted.

Is this the world’s quirkiest office?

Is this the world’s quirkiest office?

IT’S the vibe: we take a look behind the scenes of the world’s most divisive hospitality company, in an office to rival the most opulent of Airbnb listings.

German tourist Eric Vogel straps a seatbelt around HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot, as Vogel and his traveling companions give hitchBot its first ride Friday, July 17, 2015, in Marblehead, Mass. HitchBOT is beginning its' first cross-country hitchhiking trip of the U.S., in Marblehead with a final destination goal of reaching San Francisco. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

hitchBOT’s comes to grief in US

A HITCHHIKING robot that thumbed its way into the hearts of fans worldwide has met a brutal demise while crossing the United States.

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Why are Creationists building Noah’s Ark?

Why are Creationists building Noah’s Ark?

IT’S been called “sickening” by scientists but an Aussie creationist is leading the charge to build a giant Noah’s Ark. And the reason for it is bizarre.

SUN VALLEY, ID - JULY 07: Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity, attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 7, 2015 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Many of the world's wealthiest and most powerful business people from media, finance, and technology attend the annual week-long conference which is in its 33rd year. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Billionaire’s 37 projects to save us

THE most powerful people in the world have issued dire warnings of a ‘Terminator scenario’. Now SpaceX founder Elon Musk is doing something about it.

‘From New York to London in three hours’

‘From New York to London in three hours’

FORGET everything you know about air travel because a new supersonic jet is about to change the game forever.

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Man arrested after flying balloon-rigged chair

Man arrested after flying balloon-rigged chair

IS IT a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a Canadian man soaring through the skies on a chair rigged with helium balloons. His reason why is incredible.

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It’s on: giant robots to wage war

It’s on: giant robots to wage war

IT’S the fight the world has been waiting for. Japan and the US will take their historic rivalry to the giant robot-fighting arena in an epic battle next year.

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A robot developed by Toshiba Corp. is demonstrated at its laboratory in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. As Japan struggles in the early stages of decades-long cleanup of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Toshiba has developed the robot that raises its tail like a scorpion and collects data, and hopefully locate some of melted debris. The

Meet Fukushima’s latest robot hero

IT’S been four years since a 15-metre high tsunami shattered the Fukushima power plant. Only now do we have a hope of finding out what’s going on inside — via a robotic scorpion.

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Perth inventor creates robot brickie

Check out this bricklaying robot

THE world’s first fully-automated bricklayer is being developed in Perth, which could raise the brick shell of a new home within two days.

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This luggage idea is pure genius

This luggage idea is pure genius

IT looks like a standard suitcase, but this luggage comes with an innovative design that might just revolutionise the way we travel.

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Has Lexus created a rideable hoverboard?

Has Lexus created a rideable hoverboard?

A NUMBER of efforts have been made to make the hoverboard dream a reality with no great success … until now.

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FOR SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ONLY - Zoo Month. Dora the Greater One-horned rhino pictured at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo. Dora has been part of a global breeding program which has helped to produce offspring in zoos around the world. Picture: Toby Zerna

The idea that could save a species

IT’S worth more than gold or cocaine on the blackmarket. Now one pioneering company has come up with a brilliant idea that could save a species from extinction.

Sex dolls are now talking dirty

Sex dolls are now talking dirty

SEX dolls have undergone a robotic makeover. Say hello to the new generation of silicone “love dolls”.

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