Frank Gehry twists steel into Van Gogh-inspired tower

Frank Gehry has developed a distinctive style over the decades, with his love of asymmetry and irregular forms giving rise to unusual forms. This continues with an almost-complete steel-clad tower that's part-inspired by a Vincent van Gogh painting.

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Acoustasonic Jazzmaster review: Fender walks the digital tightrope

10 guitars in one; that's the promise with Fender's groundbreaking digitally-enhanced Acoustasonic range, and the new Jazzmaster flavor pushes things further and harder than ever before. We've spent two weeks with Fender's brave leap into the future.

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Spongy wood nanogenerators make for energy-harvesting smart floors

There are untold energy sources all around us, if we can just figure out how to tap into them. Swiss researchers have now demonstrated an environmentally friendly way to make spongy wood flooring that can generate electricity with every step.

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Computer tool spots deepfakes via tiny reflections in the eyes

Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have just offered a compelling example of what deepfake detection could look like, developing a technology that can spot them with 94 percent effectiveness by analyzing tiny reflections in the eyes.

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Pandemic profits threaten global COVID-19 vaccination efforts

Several effective COVID-19 vaccines have been developed in rapid time but was that the easy part of the process? Are intellectual property protections and for-profit pharmaceutical companies now getting in the way of vaccinating the world's population?

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Dark matter or cooling “primordial soup” could create gravitational waves

In January scientists reported the detection of very low-frequency gravitational waves. Now astrophysicists have investigated two possible sources – the universe cooling down after the Big Bang, and a field of particles that could be dark matter.

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Solar-powered off-road teardrop trades propane for electric camping

We've seen a few electric camping trailers on the global market, and Colorado Campworks presents one of the first we've seen in the US. Its NS-1 is an off-road teardrop built to rely solely on electric power out in the wild, no need for LPG.

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Insta360’s Go 2 actioncam is still tiny, but more capable

Although Insta360 is known for its panoramic video cameras, two years ago it released a tiny conventional actioncam called the Go. This week the company announced that model's new-and-improved sibling, the Go 2.

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Bone pit may be site of “earliest-known indiscriminate mass killing”

In case there was ever any doubt … atrocities are nothing new. Scientists have recently determined that piled human remains unearthed in what is now Potočani, Croatia, represent the earliest-known indiscriminate mass killing.

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