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Fingerprint scanner scares refugees away from safe haven

In northern France, authorities and charities have built three refugee camps with different technology and philosophies. But their good intentions can easily be undermined.

Robot cameras make a splash at Olympics

A Getty photographer taps bots to get spectacular underwater images.

​Samsung turns IBM's brain-like chip into a digital eye

By emulating the way the human brain works researchers hope to build faster, more efficient computer chips.

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A new MacBook Pro: Will it solve the Apple laptop shopper's dilemma?
With new MacBook Pro models on the horizon, where does Apple's laptop lineup current stand?
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We've lost R2: Actor Kenny Baker dies
 by Mike Sorrentino
Darth Vader returns in new 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' trailer
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Perseids sizzle in shooting-star show
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After hack, more data on Democrats hits the web
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Top Marine says smartphone society makes soldiers soft
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 by Iyaz Akhtar
VR and exoskeletons restore feeling to paraplegics
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From James Bond to Game of Thrones, the incredible monasteries of Meteora
These monasteries in central Greece rise impossibly from seemingly inaccessible stone columns. Here's how they look up close...and inside.
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James Bond, 'Game of Thrones' were here: Tour the breathtaking monasteries of Meteora

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Sonos charts its post-Echo strategy on August 30

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Samsung IFA press invite teases likely Gear S3 smartwatch

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