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The world's largest esports organization ESL, which hosts a US$250,000 Counter-Strike tournament in Germany next month, is partnering with anti-doping authorities to clamp down on gamers resorting to performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) to gain an edge.

While cheap, kerosene lamps are bad for the environment and human health. Intended as an alternative in areas with access to electricity, the SALt (Sustainable Alternative Lighting) lamp burns for eight hours at a time running on only a glass of water and two teaspoons of salt.

Vertical farms present an efficient, cost-effective and sustainable means of producing food in the face of growing urban populations worldwide. A see-through, mobile vertical farm project called Isabel is aiming to take this message on the road.

When it comes to hanging things on a wall in a straight line, a laser level can go a long way towards making that easier to accomplish. A new device called Sure Hang aims to make the laser level even more useful by allowing it to integrate directly with a tape measure.

hubs promises to make building an open geodesic dome easy and quick, with construction time rated as under an hour. Its creators cite possible uses for the dome as a garden room, aviary, chicken run, chidren's den, and more.

The Future of Life Institute has presented an open letter signed by over 1,000 robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers urging the United Nations to impose a ban on the development of weaponized AI with the capability to target and kill without meaningful human intervention.

New research predicts it is possible to create a material with a new record-setting melting point that would have a good chance of staying intact, even at the insane temperatures in places like the outer edges of Earth's core.

Part electric bicycle, part motorcycle and part moped, the Bolt M-1 is a capable, two-wheeled machine engineered for urban commuting. The fully electric bike wears light motorcycle styling and can put out up to 5,500 watts for speeds up to 40 mph.

Using Wi-Fi and/or NFC, the Nourish device is able to sync with popular fitness trackers, food loggers and health apps. It then keeps track of its user's states of health and fitness, serving up nutritional supplements that are custom-blended on a daily basis.

Arduino is a great platform for those wanting to get into both software and hardware development, but incorporating voice commands into these projects is not without its challenges. MOVI is a standalone speech recognition unit that aims to make this task simple.

A British research team has happened upon a technique that promises to cut the healing time of chronic wounds by a third, using simple low-intensity ultrasounds.

IBM Research has successfully created the first 7nm node test chip with functioning transistors, a development that could lead to processors that boast four times the capacity of those on the market today.