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From chatting to friends in a messaging app or buying a coffee, to tapping in and out with an Oyster card or streaming music, today almost everything we do leaves a trail of data breadcrumbs. And this increasing datafication of our world has led to an unprecedented explosion in data. Just in the  average minute , Facebook receives 900,000 logins, more than 450,000 Tweets are posted, and 156 million emails and 15 million texts are sent.With numbers like that, it’s no wonder we’re essentially  doubling the amount of data  created in the world roughly every two years. In its fifth year, Data Never Sleeps shows exactly how much data is created every single minute. From tweets to swipes, likes to shares, the digital world is exploding. Have a look Domo   has just released their fifth annual infographic looking into the world’s data generation and online behavior, called “ Data Never Sleeps 5.0 .” You can check out their infographic from 2016  here  for compa...

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With just the wave of a magnet, MIT researchers can control soft 3D printed structures and make them complete a range of movements, such as crawling, rolling up or jumping. The engineers believe this technique could be used for “promising applications” in biomedicine. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  engineers have developed soft, 3D printed structures using a new type of 3D printable ink which is infused with tiny magnetic particles. After printing, the structures can be controlled by waving a magnet. Imagine marionettes without the strings. Although magnetically activated materials have been created before, the difference here is that the MIT researchers have achieved a range of complex movements. The varied structures all move in different ways. For example, a “spider-grabber” can crawl, roll, jump, and snap together fast enough to catch a ball, a smooth ring shape can be controlled to wrinkle up, a long tube will squeeze shut and a sheet structure w...