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Banking technology company FIS has developed a system that is claimed to streamline the cash-getting process. Known as Cardless Cash Access, it allows people to get money from ATMs within seconds, using nothing but their smartphone.

Scott Carpenter, one of the last surviving Mercury 7 astronauts, has died at the age of 88. The second American to go into orbit and the fourth Mercury astronaut to travel into space, Carpenter is also remembered for his contributions to oceanography.

Team Austria (Vienna University of Technology) has been announced the overall winner of Solar Decathlon 2013 after the closest competition in the history of the event. Second place went to University of Nevada Las Vegas, with the Czech Technical University achieving third place overall.

Since the earliest days of brewing beer and making wine, the search has been on for an easy, affordable method of chilling drinks quickly without diluting them in the process. Spin Chill claims to have a solution that helps make beverages ice cold in 60 seconds.

It's the world's most used web browser, but how many users are using extensions to get the most out of Google Chrome? Here are some of my favorites, not geared towards any particular profession, which I think could prove useful to my fellow generalist web users out there in the world.

In many parts of the world, electric bikes are limited to a top speed of 20 mph (32 km/h). While that may keep the speed down on commercially-produced e-bikes, such is not the case with one-offs. A case in point is Russian blogger Ivan Tulupov's twin-motored Desperado.

Explorers have mapped the surface of the iconic Matterhorn painstakingly by foot, by satellite, and now by drone, thanks to a small fleet of eBees launched by senseFly and Drone Adventures. The mission not only proved the eBee’s capabilities, but generated a data-rich 3D model of the mountaintop.

PSO J318.5-22 is an exoplanet discovered this year by astronomers at the University of Hawaii that is floating through interstellar space without a parent star and is one of the smallest free-floating objects seen outside of the Solar System.

The massive, Earth-roaming Rescue from Romanian off-road manufacturer Ghe-O Motors provides an ultra-capable alternative to other off-roaders. This fearless vessel carries up to 11 people through mud, snow, water and anything that's in their way.

Researchers at Rice University have used a computer simulation to calculate that carbyne, a monodimensional chain of carbon atoms, is twice as strong as carbon nanotubes and three times stiffer than diamond.

Guitar maker Shawn Steen has launched a line of hand-built guitars designed to comfortably fit the shape of a player's body, while looking good and sounding great.

Italian architects LEAPfactory recently constructed a new energy-efficient hotel on the southern glacier of Mount Elbrus, in Russia's Caucasus mountain range. Dubbed LEAPrus 3912 on account of its altitude in meters, the hotel was constructed for the North Caucasus Mountain Club.