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1. We’re teaching robots to heal themselves.
By Charles Q. Choi in Mashable
2. What if your clothes could charge your phone?
By the New Scientist
3. If the NSA gets the encryption backdoors it wants, abusive governments will use them too.
By Andrea Peterson in the Washington Post
4. The next political ad battleground is in your pocket.
By Tanzina Vega at CNN
5. Can a doll help girls of color see themselves as pretty?
By Teresa Jusino in the Mary Sue
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