Bespoke Rolls-Royce gets kids to surgery in luxury

Going into surgery can be stressful enough for well-informed adults, but spare a thought for children on their way to the operating theater. As a way to make such journeys a little more enjoyable, Rolls-Royce has constructed a pint-sized vehicle that lets kids drive themselves to the OR in luxury.

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Science meets architecture with robotically woven, solar-active structure

New York's MoMA PS1 will feature a shelter installation that uses robotically-knitted solar fabrics that absorb and release light. Winner of the art institution's Young Architects Program competition, the canopy from Jenny Sabin Studio is photo-luminescent by night and cooling by day, with a misting system that delivers a cooling spray when someone comes near.

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Microsoft's Xbox Games Pass subscription service to launch with 100+ games

Microsoft has announced Xbox Game Pass, a subscription service that gives gamers access to a library of over 100 Xbox One and backward compatible Xbox 360 games. New titles will cycle into the catalog every month, and those that catch a player's attention can be downloaded to their Xbox One console. There are a couple of restrictions that mean you don't exactly "own" them, but they can be bought at a discount if so desired.

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Pro skier turns to jetpack power to get home in time for lunch

Remember when you were a kid playing outside and mom called out that it was time for lunch? You leapt up and fired on all cylinders to get home so as not to miss out on your meal or spark mom's ire. Pro skier Filip Flisar recently took this concept to the next level, racing over snowy streets propelled by a jetpack. Needless to say, he made it home in time for his midday meal.

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Quick spin: Just how Porsche is the Macan S?

The sports car business is fickle and, during the 1990s, the king of rear-engine performance was on the brink of bankruptcy. It made diehards angry, but the solution was to build a luxury four-wheel drive. Twelve years after the Cayenne made a perennial problem child into a profit powerhouse, it gained a younger brother called the Macan. Porsche says it's the sporty child in a class full of same-same offerings, but can a four-wheel drive ever really deliver a truly authentic sports car experience? We spent some time with a Macan S to find out.

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YouTube cuts the cable with live TV subscription service

Cable TV companies can be notoriously slow to adapt their business models to the way people are consuming media nowadays. There's a generation that's used to having content on demand and on the go, with services like Netflix and YouTube. In an effort to squeeze live TV into that model, Google has announced YouTube TV, a cable-like subscription service that will let viewers in the US to watch live TV on a range of devices, or save episodes to the cloud to watch later.

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Vitamin-dispensing nanomesh designed to get on peoples' nerves

For injuries in which nerves are severed, there are already conduits (basically tiny tubes) that can be used to hold the two ends together while they heal. These don't actually do anything to promote healing, however, plus they can't be used on nerves that are injured yet still in one piece. That's why scientists have developed a nanofiber "nerve-wrap" mesh that could be used to treat conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome.

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LG G6 vs. Google Pixel XL

Based on its specs and our brief hands-on time with the new LG G6, it's shaping up to be a very competitive flagship. How does it stack up to one of our favorite Android standard-bearers, the Google Pixel XL?

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Rocky Tatooine-like exoplanets could exist after all

An international team of scientists may have discovered debris from a metal-rich, rocky asteroid falling into a white dwarf that comprises one half of a distant binary star system. The presence of the asteroid suggests that rocky, and potentially habitable worlds could potentially form in a two-star system, not entirely unlike the fictional planet Tatooine on which Luke Skywalker was raised in the Star Wars universe.

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Bids to be sought for Trump's border wall

We've covered some controversial architecture projects in the past, but perhaps none more so than this: the wall being proposed by Donald Trump to be built along the southern border between the United States and Mexico. The US Department of Homeland Security has recently announced their intention to begin receiving concepts for the project in the next week.

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WHO releases first-ever hit-list for antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Last year, both the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) and the British government warned about the dangers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) became the latest institution to join in this increasingly ominous chorus with the release of a list of antibiotic-resistant priority pathogens – the first in the organization's 69-year history.

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Drone design features an autorotating body

One of the big worries regarding the widespread use of drones is that if their motors fail, they could plummet out of the sky and hit us on the head. Equipping them with parachutes is one option, although that adds weight and complexity. Meteorological forecasting company Meteomatics is taking another approach, in the form of a quadcopter that can spin its way down like a top.

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Holster sensor activates cop's body cam when weapon is drawn

A new sensor designed for law enforcement can alert an officer's body cameras to start recording automatically when a weapon is drawn. The Axon Signal Sidearm from TASER International is a wireless sensor that attaches to an existing police firearm holster and integrates with the company's Axon line of dash cameras, body cams and other wearable cameras.

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Black holes are regularly ripping distant stars to shreds

Astronomers in the UK have found new evidence that black holes tear stars apart 100 times more often than previously thought. These stellar-swallowing smorgasbords, scientifically known as tidal disruption events (TDE), were thought to happen only every 10,000 to 100,000 years, but a recent discovery has researchers from the University of Sheffield rethinking that rate of occurrence.

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A slightly serious habitability ranking of TRAPPIST-1's planets

The discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a (relatively) nearby dwarf star raises plenty of questions. Could they possibly harbor liquid water? What are the conditions like and what kind of life, if any, could exist there? While there is much to learn about these distant, potentially habitable worlds, scientists do already have a handle on a few of the key features. So here's an early snapshot of each and which we'd lean towards in the event we ever needed to, you know, to relocate to another solar system.

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DS7 adds some French hybrid flair to Geneva

Peugeot is rediscovering its mojo, Citroen has found its funk and Renault is taking on the low-cost luxury. It would seem all is well in France, then, but there is one gallic brand is still struggling to gain a foothold. Citroen luxury spinoff DS is yet to hit its stride, although the high-ups in Paris will be hoping the new DS7 SUV is the car to change that.

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Huawei Watch 2 vs. Huawei Watch

Huawei's first smartwatch – simply called the Huawei Watch – was one of our favorites in the first-wave crop of smart wrist wearables. Let's examine how the second generation Huawei Watch 2 compares to the first.

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First anti-drone gun on its way to fight terrorism in the Middle East

The widespread availability of drones has always carried the increased risk of them falling into the wrong hands. And forces battling Islamic State terrorists are now seeing this play out in very real and dangerous ways. As more reports emerge of the group using weaponized consumer drones to strike allied forces, one unnamed Middle Eastern government is bringing in a high-tech solution, the long-range Dronegun that can ground unmanned aircraft from kilometers away.

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Getting out of Auto: Understanding the exposure triangle

Hopefully our guides to ISO, aperture and shutter speed have made those photographic terms a little less daunting than they once were. If you now feel like you understand those concepts and are already comfortable trying out the semi-automatic modes on your camera, it might be time to go for full manual mode. Here we'll look at the idea of the exposure triangle, and how understanding it can make it easier when you first start shooting in manual.

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Alpine A110 goes from concept to production reality

After months of teasing, concepts and previews, Alpine has pulled back the sheet on the hotly anticipated A110 ahead of its Geneva debut. We still don't know how much power it'll have, but the mid-engined two-seater is certainly a looker with some cool details hiding under the retro styling.

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VR gaming is about to get much better: Oculus demo impressions from GDC

This past weekend we spent about six hours hopping from demo-to-demo at a pre-GDC hands-on with Oculus. Our conclusion? VR gaming is about to take big leap forward in depth, length, polish and quality.

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Raspberry Pi Zero gets Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

Since the launch of the very first Raspberry Pi, more than 12 million units have been sold. In November 2015, the Foundation hit back at numerous attempts to undercut the Pi's market dominance by announcing an entry-level addition to the family called the Pi Zero. Now, a year after including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in the Pi 3 Model B, a wireless-ready Zero has been released – the Pi Zero W.

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Nokia 3310 hands-on: A retro moment in mobile phones

As if having the Nokia brand back wasn't enough of a nostalgia hit for mobile lovers, new owners HMD Global have also brought back one of the most beloved phones of the past: the Nokia 3310. New Atlas got some hands-on time with it at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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NYC tower won't leave its neighbors in the shade

New details and images have emerged regarding Studio Gang's Solar Carve Tower. Unveiled in 2012, the unusual building is due to begin construction soon and features an interesting design that's informed by a desire to not unduly obstruct the view nor cause the surrounding area to be left in shadow.

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Infento puts many tracks in the snow with 8-in-1 sled for all ages

Forget the $20 snow saucer. Kids now have a better way to shred the snow. Following up on its impressive build-your-own ride-on kits, Infento offers high-performance sledding kits for kids of all ages. Its Big Snow Kit brings seven different styles of sled in one, giving industrious children many different ways of blasting down a snowy hill. Snow days just got even better.

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