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  Kenneth Marritt

  

  Astronauts will grow their own food (or weed?) for the first time ever

  Gizmodo - Jesus Diaz

  NASA is sending a really cool garden to the International Space Station on April 14, on board the SpaceX Dragon. For the first time in history, …

• http://mashable.com/2014/03/08/life360-bmw-i3-car/

  

  Kenneth Marritt

  Mar 9, 2014
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  Kenneth Marritt

  

  How these social robots are helping autistic kids

  VentureBeat - Christina Farr

  At the Duck’s Nest preschool in Oakland, Calif., a fluffy blue robot asks a group of toddlers, “I want to be your friend. Will you please be my friend?” Robotics experts are testing this low-cost and affable robot, called Romibo, at schools across the country. According to its creator, Aubrey Shick, …

• http://gigaom.com/2014/03/08/a-plain-english-guide-to-how-natural-language-processing-will-transform-computing/

  

  Kenneth Marritt

  Mar 9, 2014

• http://www.geek.com/news/airpnp-lets-you-rent-your-bathroom-to-drunken-strangers-1587170/

  

  Kenneth Marritt

  Mar 9, 2014
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  Kenneth Marritt

  

  This robot is teaching college kids how to code robotics apps (exclusive)

  VentureBeat - Meghan Kelly

  Robots: they build your Teslas, assemble your iPhones, and now they teach your college kids. The Baxter Robot, created by Rethink Robotics, teaches undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, the principles of using and coding for robots — the same kinds of robots that will be …