5 Interesting Tech Stories You Might Have Missed This Week

From Google Maps to welding robots.

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Not everything technology makes possible is a good idea. This week's most interesting stories showed a number of bizarre phenomena made possible by technology, many of which created strange new complications for all of their futuristic advances. Sometimes striving to remove all the complications out of life can leave nothing but a vacuum of dissatisfaction in its wake. Humans find meaning in struggles where machines never will. Trying to offload too much of our daily strife can lead to a special kind of disillusionment that is becoming a regular part of these modern times. 

I Outsourced All My Most Mundane Personal Tasks to India

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Iranian High Schoolers Will Learn to Hack Foreign Drones

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Re-purposed Welding Robot Can Forge Any Painting It's Shown

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Australian Scientists' Quest for a Hangover-Proof Beer

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Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put Their Communities on Google Maps

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