A "shared" workspace at the Atlassian office. The company installed heat and motion sensors to track when and how often every desk, room and table was used. Atlassian hide caption
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The German service robot Toomas was designed to welcome customers and help them find items in a store. Joerg Sarbach/AP hide caption
Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs
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Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods has created an Internet interface so customers can zoom in and view information about specific koa trees from their computers. Courtesy of Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods hide caption
Using Investments And Technology To Rebuild Hawaii's Koa Forests
Tanimura & Antle workers use tractors to install drip tape into fields that will be used to grow lettuce and other crops in California's Salinas Valley. Aarti Shahani/NPR hide caption
Why California Farmers Are Conflicted About Using Less Water
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The Daimler Freightliner Inspiration, a self-driving long-haul truck, is seen during an event at the Hoover Dam, May 5, 2015, near Boulder City, Nev. John Locher/AP hide caption
Coming Soon To A Highway Near You: A Semitruck With A Brain
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A Google sign at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google is launching a two-week-long patent marketplace next month, where sellers can name their own price. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption
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The Apple II Watch is meant to parody the Apple Watch and show what wearables might have looked like in the 1980s. Jon Brown/Instructables hide caption
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Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore holds up a silicon wafer at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., in 2005. Moore's prediction 50 years earlier, called Moore's Law, has been the basis for the digital revolution. Paul Sakuma/AP hide caption
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Neiman Marcus is testing a digital "Memory Mirror" that lets shoppers see how an outfit looks in back as well as displaying items they've tried on side by side. Courtesy of Neiman Marcus hide caption
Magic Mirror, At The Store, Should This Top Go In My Drawer?
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Artists in the residency program at Autodesk are given access to production-quality equipment in workshops, allowing them space to create at-will. Blake Marvin/Courtesy of Autodesk hide caption
Artists In Residence Give High-Tech Projects A Human Touch
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Google is doing test flights of its balloons carrying Internet routers around the world. Last June, a balloon was released at the airport in Teresina, Brazil. Google hide caption
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The Sidewinding Circular Skates are a modern hybrid of skates and skateboard. Hammacher Schlemmer hide caption
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Now Algorithms Are Deciding Whom To Hire, Based On Voice
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Continuous Liquid Interface Production, or CLIP, uses liquid resin with ultraviolet light and oxygen projected through it to create more complex structures than those of existing 3-D printers. Nina Gregory/NPR hide caption
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More than 600 Porto city buses and taxis have been fitted with routers to provide free Wi-Fi service. It's being touted as the biggest Wi-Fi-in-motion network in the world. Sérgio Rodrigues/Veniam hide caption