This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 9)

It's That Time of Year Again--Fall Is Here and Packs of Robot Dogs Are Frolicking in the Leaves James Vincent The Verge "There's nothing I like more on bright and cold autumnal days than heading down to the park and watching the robot dogs playing in piles of leaves. To hear the scuttle of their little metal legs! To imagine the joy in their tiny silicon brains! The World's First Gattaca Baby Tests Are Finally Here Antonio Regalado MIT Technology Review "Anxious couples are approaching fertility doctors in the US with requests for a hotly debated new genetic test being called "23andMe, but on embryos." Elon Musk Says Building the First Sustainable City on Mars Will Take 1,000 Starships and 20 Years Darrell Etherington Tech Crunch "Addressing a question about comments he made earlier this week at the US Air Force startup pitch day event in California, Musk said that his stated launch cost of only around $2 million per Starship flight are essentially required, should the final goal be to set up a'self-sustaining city on Mars.'i"