Futurism

The EU’s Proposed New Copyright Laws Show No Government Knows How to Govern The Internet

Four Major Phone Carriers Just Did Something to Actually Protect Your Privacy

► Using “Shark Vision” We’ve Learned Some Sharks Glow in the Dark

Hackers Target Yet Another South Korean Crypto Exchange, Steal $32 Million

A Major EDM Festival Is Selling Tickets On the Blockchain

Doing away with scalpers? Probably the best application of blockchain yet.

13 hours ago

#blockchain #ethereum #festival

Don’t Mess With the Musk: Elon Sues Ex-Employee for Spilling Tesla Secrets

Martin Tripp has made a powerful enemy.

14 hours ago

#elon musk #lawsuit #tesla

Electronic Skin Lets Amputees Feel Pain Through Their Prosthetics

"I felt my hand, as if a hollow shell, got filled with life again.”

14 hours ago

#amputee #artificial skin #prosthetic

Here’s The Conspiracy Tearing Bitcoin Crypto Communities Apart

Here is the secret meaning behind the mysterious 21e8.

17 hours ago

#bitcoin #conspiracy #cryptography

Many Common Psychiatric Disorders Share a Genetic Link, Study Finds

They might have more in common than we thought before.

17 hours ago

#brain #neurological disorder #psychiatric disorder

Boring Company Flamethrowers Are Here and Already Being Used Questionably

Elon Musk's decision to sell "Not-A-Flamethrower" flamethrowers has some sweating over potential consequences.

18 hours ago

#boring company #elon musk #Laws

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

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

Synthetic Biological Weapons May Be Coming. Here’s How To Fight Them.

A new DoD report has some suggestions.

20 hours ago

#biological weapons #CRISPR #department of defense

MIT Creates “Artificial Blubber” to Keep Navy SEALs Warm

“It’s like wearing a coat of air.”

June 20, 2018

#apparel #military #navy seals

In Ontario, New Project Will Give Providers and Patients More Access to Health Records

The government has one chance to get this right.

June 19, 2018

#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.

June 19, 2018

#elon musk #Model 3 #tent

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

The singularity is not imminent.

June 19, 2018

#artificial intelligence #debate #ibm

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

You know what's pretty similar to monkeys? Humans.

June 19, 2018

#CRISPR #gene-editing #rhesus monkeys

Advanced Transport

Hold Up, Boring Company Is Making Tunnels For Cars Now?

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

Artificial Intelligence

Was That Script Written By A Human Or An AI? Here’s How To Spot The Difference.

Google Created AI That Just Needs A Few Snapshots To Make 3D Models Of Its Surroundings

A New AI Algorithm Can Track Your Movements Through A Wall

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

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

6 Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Traditional Burial

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

Hard Science

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

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

Health & Medicine

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

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

Off World

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

Astronomers Just Discovered Three Planets in an Entirely New Way

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.

Robots & Machines

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

Soul Machines: Engineering Lifelike, Emotionally Responsive AI

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

Sci-Fi Visions

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

China Is Rolling Out A Mandatory Program That Puts Tracking Chips In Every Car

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

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

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

Too Drunk to Drive? You Might Also Be Too Drunk to Ride in an Uber

You might "not be matched with any provider" if Uber thinks you’re in an "unusual" state.

June 8, 2018

#patent #ride-hailing #Uber

Want to Change Society’s Views? Here’s How Many People You’ll Need on Your Side

We've honed in on the "tipping point" for social change.

June 8, 2018

#social change #society #tipping point

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