Futurism

CRISPR Doesn’t Cause Unintended Mutations in Monkeys, Study Finds

Putting Pokémon On The Blockchain Takes Microtransactions To Their Inevitable, Insufferable End

Biohacker Who Implanted Transit Chip in Hand Evades Fine

A Robot Just Operated On A Human Eye for the First Time

Ontario Plans to Let Companies Access A Database of Patient Health Records

The government has one chance to get this right.

15 hours ago

#health records #medicine #ontario

In an Effort to Speed up Production, Tesla Is Assembling Model 3s in a Giant Tent

Capitalism has no time for walls.

16 hours ago

#elon musk #Model 3 #tent

IBM’s Debater AI Is Impressive, But It Won’t Conquer Humanity

The singularity is not imminent.

17 hours ago

#artificial intelligence #debate #ibm

Think Deleting Your Facebook Profile Is Hard? Try Deleting Your Genomic Data.

You can’t un-spit into that test tube.

June 18, 2018

#dna #DNA testing #genetic testing

The US May Soon Have The World’s First Space Force

President Trump said it will be "separate but equal" to the Air Force.

June 18, 2018

#military #space #space exploration

Google’s AI Can Predict When A Patient Will Die

And it does it better than conventional models.

June 18, 2018

#ai #artificial intelligence #data privacy

This Week in Tech: June 9 – June 15, 2018

Virtual Real Estate, Full Self-Driving, Seeing Through Walls, and More

Russia Wants to Vaporize Space Junk With a Laser. There Is No Way This Will Go Wrong.

The Russian space agency designed a tool to clear away space trash orbiting Earth.

June 18, 2018

#laser #laser cannon #Russia

6 Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Traditional Burial

Modern burials are notoriously harmful to the environment. Here are some future solutions good for your conscious and mother Earth.

June 18, 2018

#burial #death #eco-friendly

Want to Breathe on Mars? A Sea-Dwelling Bacteria Could Make That Possible.

They seem perfectly suited to the harsh conditions of the Red Planet.

June 17, 2018

#Colonization #Cyanobacteria #mars

FIFA’s Video-Assisted Referees Aren’t Perfect, But Neither Are Human Referees

The World Cup is on, and people have a lot of feelings about the new tech.

June 16, 2018

#fifa #refereeing #referees

This Study To Assess How Drinking Affects Our Health Is A Master Class In How To Do Science Poorly

Happy hour is ruined.

June 15, 2018

#alcohol #health #medicine

Welcome to the Age of 5G. No One Can Agree On Whether That’s A Good Thing.

It'll probably help consumers... eventually.

June 15, 2018

#5G #cybersecurity #digital communication

Advanced Transport

Here Are The Best Candidates in the Competition to Design A Personal Flying Device

Tesla Will “Enable Full Self-Driving Features” in August. Here’s What That Actually Means.

Yes, Autonomous Cars Are Going To Kill People Before They Save Lives, Expert Says

As Self-Driving Cars Hit Roadblocks, Autonomous Boats Could Take Traffic Off The Streets

Artificial Intelligence

This Artificial Intelligence System Predicts The Future To Help You Around The House

Brain-Based Circuitry Just Made Artificial Intelligence A Whole Lot Faster

Google: JK, We’re Going To Keep Working With The Military After All

AI Can Now Manipulate People’s Movements In Fake Videos

Earth & Energy

Cheap Carbon Capture Technology Might Make Our Climate Goals Possible

AI That Counts And Identifies Wildlife Could Be A Game-changer For Ecologists

The DoE May Bail Out Failing Coal Plants in the Name of National Security

China Isn’t Taking Our Recycling. Here’s What We Could Do With It Instead.

Enhanced Humans

UC Berkeley Finally Scores a Win With Two CRISPR Patents

CRISPR Could Help Us Cure Diseases. It Could Also Cause Cancer.

We’ve Reached A New Level In Bionics: Artificial Limbs We Forget Are Artificial

We’re Getting Closer to Having Regenerative Abilities like Deadpool

Future Society

8 Women in Science and Their Ground-Breaking Achievements

Bitcoin and Ether Aren’t Securities, Says SEC Official

Genetic Analysis Helped The AP Catch Sketchy Fisheries

The Guy Who Created Oculus Has Now Made Surveillance Tech That Acts As A Virtual Border Wall

Hard Science

Forget Wi-Fi, Li-Fi is the Next Phase of Wireless Internet

5D Glass Discs Store 3000x More Info Than CDs – for 13.8 Billion Years

A Graphene Aerogel Is 99.8% Air and as Strong as Steel

Scientists Invented A Real-Life Flux Capacitor

Health & Medicine

New Gene Therapy Could Stitch Together Damaged Spinal Cords

This Robot Is Here to Draw Your Blood

Have Poor Vision? Let These Super Clunky Glasses Focus Your Eyes For You

This Pill Could Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Off World

NASA: Don’t Start Mourning the Opportunity Rover Just Yet

A New Trick Lets Us Weigh The Galaxy. It’s The First Step Toward Figuring Out What It’s Made Of

NASA Found Evidence of Organic Matter on Mars. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.

NASA Scientists Imagine Studying Venus From A Floating Research Colony

Robots & Machines

Watch This Autonomous Car Carefully, Safely Weave Through A Crowd of Pedestrians

America Now Has The Fastest Supercomputer In The World. Here’s Why That Actually Matters

Ordering Food via Touchscreen Is so Fun You Spend More Money When You Do It

With Bees Scarce, A Drone Pollinates A New York Apple Orchard

Sci-Fi Visions

A New Browser Plug In Wants To Help You Fight Fake News

People Are Paying Insane Amounts of Real Money for “Virtual Real Estate”

Elon Musk’s Flamethrowers are Here, And, Yes, People Are Already Using Them in Dumb Ways

Security Companies Want To Use Facial Recognition To Stop School Shootings

Virtuality

New VR Demo Lets You Use Your Hands to Explore A Cat’s Innards

Disney Made A VR Jacket That Can Simulate Hugs, Snakes Crawling On Your Back

Scientists Use EEG Machine to Create Digital Images From Brain Activity

To Stop Russian Election Meddlers, Facebook Goes Analog

This Week in Science: June 9 – June 15, 2018

CRISPR Patents, Planet Discoveries, the Fastest Supercomputers, and More

Apple No Longer Allows Crypto Mining On Its Devices. That’s Good For Users.

A new policy bans background cryptocurrency mining on any Apple device.

June 12, 2018

#apple #bitcoin #cryptocurrency

This Week in Tech: June 2 – June 8, 2018

Flying Car Firsts, Blockchain Religions, Digital License Plates, and More

Facebook Wants To Make Its News More Credible With New Hires And Partnerships

For ‘definitely not’ a media company, Facebook is putting the pieces in place to define the future of media.

June 8, 2018

#facebook #Media #news

This Week in Science: June 2 – June 8, 2018

SpaceX Delays, Artificial Bone Marrow, Solar System Mysteries, and More

It’s Now Scary to Be A White Hat Hacker Thanks to the US Government

The government is suing the guy who stopped the 2017 malware attack that shut down banks and hospitals.

June 7, 2018

#ethics #kronos #marcus hutchins

Five Ideas That Could Save Shopping Malls from Becoming Obsolete

Amazon has disrupted the market, and experts suggest 25% of malls will close in the next 5 years. Could technologies like these help save them?

June 7, 2018

#facial recognition #no pay system #retail industry

A Dutch City Is Creating the First Habitable, 3D Printed Houses

Say goodbye to cookie-cutter homes.

June 6, 2018

#3d print #home #material

Washington State Is Suing Facebook And Google For Violating Election Advertisement Laws

Washington’s attorney general says the two companies failed to disclose who bought political ads.

June 5, 2018

#advertisements #facebook #Google

The SEC Is Not Messing Around, Appoints New Leader To Tackle Crypto

There's a new sheriff in town. Her name is Valerie A. Szczepanik.

June 5, 2018

#cryptocurrency #finance #sec