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Last year, Amazon kicked off its inaugural Picking Challenge to encourage teams to create robots able to perform the task of an Amazon stock picker. This year’s competition added a second type of challenge – and a Dutch team has claimed victories in both.

Thermacell is preparing to launch a lighter, more compact mosquito repeller designed to go deeper into the wilderness. The Backpacker Repeller drops Thermacell's mosquito-fighting technology into your pack.

There are currently a record seven active unmanned missions operating on or around Mars, but the parade has only just begun. The next couple of decades will be very busy indeed as a new series of international missions head out to the Red Planet.

The Octospot is an actioncam that's optimized for scuba diving. Among other things, it's reportedly the first to offer pressure-controlled auto white balance, so that images don't look bluer the deeper you go.​

No sign yet of giant sandworms, but NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has sent back images that show sand ripples on the Red Planet’s dunes are of a type not found on Earth’s deserts. Created by Mars’ thin atmosphere, the information has provided new clues on the history of the planet’s atmosphere.

Last month, Bose added Bluetooth wireless to its top drawer active noise cancellation technology for the QuietComfort 35 over-ear headphones. Sennheiser has responded to the battle cry with the PXC 550 Wireless headphones.

​​Astronomers have detected the first-ever exoplanet holding a wide stable orbit in a chaotic triple star system.

An inexpensive new device created by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania uses genetic material instead of antibodies to detect the Zika virus.

Titan is one of the most interesting bodies in the Solar System, as the only other place we know of that very likely holds liquid water. Scientists have found that conditions could be right for non-water-based life to evolve, challenging our Earth-focused ideals of habitability.

Modern muscle cars might be comfortable, capable sports cars, but the family line started as unsophisticated beasts in the 1960s. Chevy is celebrating this evolution with the Camaro 50th Anniversary Edition, a car with some retro fashion sense, but a more modern setup under the hood.

Most people don’t bother buying themselves a birthday present, instead leaving the gifting to close friends and family members. Things work a bit differently in the world of bikes, a point proven by Ducati’s 1299 Panigale S Anniversario.

Two things that scream "American summer!" are the bright, hot sun and hot dogs cooking under it. The new GoSun Solar Dogger ties those two even closer. A slimmer, more portable GoSun cooker, the Solar Dogger harnesses the power of the sun to cook hot dogs, sausages and other compact, tubular foods.