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A wearable wireless hydration sensor from North Carolina State University will be able to tell how thirsty you are via a chest patch or wrist-worn device. The device is designed to tell you when you might be facing heat stress…

Virtual assistants are supposed to be a linchpin of tech’s future. Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, and others have all made big investments in the tech. Many of them are using the idea of a disembodied, information-fetching helper as a…

You’ve got data from every other moment of your waking life, why shouldn’t you have it for your sexual encounters too? That’s exactly what Lovely — a new wearable that is part tracker, part sex toy — is aiming to…

Looking for the cheapest way to get to space? This helium-powered balloon might be the ticket, and is already taking reservations for ‘space tourism.’ Until now, the burgeoning private spaceflight industry catered only to the ultra-rich. Now, a relatively unknown name…

NASA has released high-resolution close-up images of Saturn’s outermost rings captured by Cassini as part of its penultimate mission. The spacecraft has been diving in and out of the rings every week since November, taking images that show features as…

A former employee of the Federal Reserve Board of Directors has fined $5,000 and put on probation after being caught mining bitcoins on a server owned by the US central bank. The Fed’s Office of the Inspector General said today…