Futurism

Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data

Pre-Teen Hackers Prove It: The U.S. Election System Simply Isn’t Secure Enough

AI Analysis Uncovers Coral Reefs Resistant to Climate Change

Monsanto’s Court Ruling Marks a Turning Point for Cancer-Causing WeedKiller

Google May Still Be Tracking You, Even If You Opted Out

Ghosting Google may not be so simple.

6 hours ago

#Google #location tracking #privacy

Here’s What We Know About SpaceX’s Crewed Dragon Spacecraft

A glimpse at the future of space travel.

6 hours ago

#astronaut #dragon #elon musk

The U.S. Military Now Has the Money It Needs to Prepare for Climate Change

The National Defense Authorization Act included some money to help the military get ready for a warmer future.

8 hours ago

#climate change #donald trump #military

The FDA Has Approved a Contraceptive App. Now More Could Flood the Market.

Critics argue that Natural Cycles is neither safe nor effective.

9 hours ago

#app #contraception #fda

Sponsored

The First Trailer For A Hard-Hitting Blockchain Documentary Is Here [Sponsored]

Blockchain came out of nowhere—and this documentary wants to know where it's going.

9 hours ago

#alex winter #blockchain #documentary

Elon Musk Wants All Autonomous Cars to Be as Secure as Tesla’s

Tesla's CEO tweeted that he plans to share the company's security software.

August 13, 2018

#Autonomous vehicles #elon musk #tesla

This Week in Tech: July 28 – Aug 3, 2018

AI Robot Hands, Tesla Surfboards, Cryptojacking, and More

Elon Musk’s Money Run for the Future of Tesla Starts Now—Here’s How He’ll Try to Pull It Off

A new blog post sheds light on who the buyer might be.

August 13, 2018

#buyout #electric car #elon musk

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft is Searching Space for Earth-Like Planets

NASA's got an eye way up in the sky and it's searching outer space. Will NASA's new satellite telescope find the next Earth?

August 13, 2018

#earth-like planets #NASA #outer space

AI Can Make Sure Cancer Patients Get Just Enough (but Not Too Much) Treatment

It can dose out drugs to shrink tumors without causing the patient unnecessary pain.

August 13, 2018

#artificial intelligence #cancer #cancer treatment

I Tried Apple’s Screen Time Tool. The Results Were Not Heartening.

My results (and probably yours) mean screen usage tools might not help us win the fight against smartphone addiction.

August 13, 2018

#apple #facebook #iPhone

Hackers Find Earth’s Satellite Communication Systems Aren’t All That Secure

One more thing to worry about.

August 13, 2018

#communications #hacking #satcom

Here’s How Vaping Really Compares to Smoking Cigarettes

"Are we really willing to pay the cost when living on credit runs out?"

August 10, 2018

#cigarette #ecig #effects of smoking

Advanced Transport

Waymo’s Phoenix Project Could Tell Us If Self-Driving Cars Can Improve Public Transportation

Apple May Prove Powerful Enough to Get the U.S. Its First Hyperloop

Uber Kills Self-Driving Truck Division, Clearing the Road for Tesla

A Plane Train Hybrid Concept is the Best of Both Vehicles

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Shining a Spotlight on Women Scientists That Were Previously Overlooked

This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”

Google Glass Is Back, And May Have Finally Found A Place It Belongs

AI Coaches Are Here To Unleash Your Inner LeBron

Earth & Energy

The U.S. Has a New Plan to Deter Would-Be Hackers

Science is Reducing Plastic Pollution in our Food Chain. Here’s How.

Rising Stocks Show Tesla Investors Are Warming up to Musk’s Cool Attitude

A Warm Water Mass Called “The Blob” Is Killing Alaska’s Cod

Enhanced Humans

The Pentagon Tells Soldiers To Stop Sharing Their Locations With Apps

Think You Could Do More if You Just Had an Extra Hand? You’re Probably Right.

Creating Genetically Modified Babies Is “Morally Permissible,” Says Ethics Committee

Electronic Skin Lets Amputees Feel Pain Through Their Prosthetics

Future Society

Explaining Its Decisions Isn’t Going To Make Twitter Better

Facial Recognition Tool That Tracks People Across Social Media Now Available to Hackers

There Is Literally No Logical Reason The US Should Allow *More* Uses for Asbestos

Some Americans Will Get to Vote via Blockchain This November

Hard Science

NASA Just Launched A New Space Probe That Will Venture Closer to the Sun Than Any Craft Before It

Figuring out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding Might Require a New Type of Physics

Engineers Use CRISPR to Create A New Species With Just One Chromosome

Scientists Shed New Light on What Life-Producing Planets Require

Health & Medicine

We Can Now Successfully Transplant Lab-Grown Lungs in Pigs

China Is Cracking Down on a Company Selling Unsafe Vaccines

The FDA Just Approved a Drug to Keep Us a Little Safer From Another Pandemic

We May Have Reached a Turning Point in the Opioid Crisis, Report Implies

Off World

SpaceX Just Launched A Rocket With A Critical Reused Part

NASA Announces The First Commercial Astronauts to Pilot The Next Generation of Spacecraft

SpaceX Will Be Ready to Transport Humans in April 2019, NASA Estimates

Scientists Say We Can’t Terraform Mars. Elon Musk Says We Can.

Robots & Machines

Interacting With This Therapy Bot Can Help Children With Autism Perfect Their Social Skills

Someone Just Used a Drone to Try to Assassinate a World Leader

Humanoid Robots Can Manipulate Our Emotions When We Least Expect It

MIT Researchers Create an Aerosol Spray Loaded With Nanobots

Sci-Fi Visions

New York City Council Capped The Number Of Ubers Allowed On City Streets

Turns Out Musk Might Actually Be Serious About Taking Tesla Private

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round

Facebook Just Shut Down Dozens of Fake Pages

Virtuality

Augmented Reality Recreates A New York City Not Seen for Centuries

Virtual Reality Has Reached A “Tipping Point.” It’s Officially Here to Stay.

This VR Horror Game Is Exactly as Scary as Your Body Can Handle

Hands on Virtual Reality, No Remotes Required

Starbucks’s New Crypto Platform Could Bring Bitcoin Into the Mainstream

You'll soon be able to use crypto to buy your cold brew.

August 3, 2018

#bitcoin #cryptocurrency #starbucks

This Week in Science: July 28 – Aug 3, 2018

Lab-Grown Lungs, Terraforming Mars, 3D Printed Guns, and More

Ontario Ends Its Three-Year Basic Income Trial After Just One Year

“It was certainly not going to be sustainable.”

August 2, 2018

#ontario #the digest #UBI

Google’s Censored Chinese Search Engine Shows It’s No Longer Afraid of U.S. Backlash

Google came under fire for such a move a decade ago, but today, it’s just business as usual.

August 1, 2018

#censorship #china #Google

You Can’t Legally 3D Print Guns Quite Yet

A recent legal battle has cleared the way for the rise of the 3D-printed "ghost gun."

July 31, 2018

#3d printed guns #3d printing #cody wilson

Lab-Grown Meat Could Become a Restaurant Staple

Lab grown meat will be served in a European restaurant by the year 2021. When will meat alternatives be as ubiquitous as the real thing?

July 31, 2018

#artificial burgers #burgers #food

For TSA’s “Quiet Skies” Program, Air Marshals Followed Travelers’ Every Move

Welcome to the friendly skies...

July 30, 2018

#air travel #flying #government surveillance

Going Dark: How to Hide Your Social Media Presence for Good

The internet is a scary place filled with your most embarrassing pictures - from high school to that crazy office party. Here's how you can stop your past from coming back to haunt you.

July 30, 2018

#facebook #instagram #internet

This Week in Tech: July 21 – July 27, 2018

Bad Facial Recognition, Chinese Hyperloops, Military AIs, and More

Dentists Are Now Using Tech to Monitor Patients’ Stress Levels

You might not dread your next cleaning.

July 27, 2018

#3d printing #dentist #healthcare