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Robot Fish Can Swim For 37 Hours With Blood-Powered Batteries
Robotics

Robot Fish Can Swim For 37 Hours With Blood-Powered Batteries

By Dan Robitzski

Russian scientists want to study reproduction and fertility in space, but cosmonauts are refusing to provide some crucial biological samples.
Off-World

Cosmonauts Refuse to Provide Semen Samples in Space

By Dan Robitzski

A new system could enable smart speakers to listen in for signs of a heart attack and immediately call for medical assistance.
Health & Medicine

Future Smart Speakers Could Call 911 if They Hear a Heart Attack

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this month, researchers from Australia's Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration published research containing a dire warning: prevent and reverse climate change or face the end of human civilization as we know it.
Climate Change

Doomsday Report Author: Earth’s Leaders Have Failed

By Dan Robitzski

Surveillance cameras will only get more sophisticated and harder to avoid, so privacy expert William Webster calls for increased transparency.
Artificial Intelligence

Privacy Expert: Surveillance Cams Will Soon Be Impossible to Spot

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA wants contractors to develop an "air-breathing" hypersonic weapon. Now Raytheon is ready to test a missile that can travel 5x faster than sound.
DARPA

New Missile Lobs Nukes 5x Faster Than Sound

By Dan Robitzski

Amnesty International argues that Facebook took away a crucial tool for humans rights investigators without consulting them.
Future Society

Human Rights Group: Facebook Won’t Let Us Investigate War Crimes

By Dan Robitzski

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.
Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

By Dan Robitzski

NASA head Jim Bridenstine announced that the SpaceX capsule explosion earlier this year has delayed the space agency's plans for crewed missions.
NASA

NASA Head: “No Doubt” SpaceX Explosion Delayed Flight Program

By Dan Robitzski

A pakistani politician unknowingly gave a press conference while a Facebook AR filter gave him cute cat ears during the livestream.
Virtual Reality

Politician Accidentally Rocks AR Kitty Ears During Livestream

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently spotted a brand new crater on the surface of Mars. The impact left a massive blue smudge that scientists think might be caused by exposed ice.
Mars

NASA Discovers Brand-New Crater on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A series of AI algorithms and neural nets turned Doom Guy's classic pixelated mug into an HD, nearly-photorealistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used a Neural Network to Draw Doom Guy in High-Res

By Dan Robitzski

As global temperatures rise, the Arctic is melting away, releasing more greenhouse gases and revealing previously-frozen nuclear waste and diseases.
Nuclear Fusion

The Melting Arctic Is Releasing Poison, Disease and Nuclear Waste

By Dan Robitzski

Security experts detect trillions of attempted hacks every day, many of which target political systems and elections using cheap, readily-available tools.
Science & Energy

Hackers Are Threatening Elections Around the World

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers from Xenotime, which previously took down a Saudi oil plant, are now attempting to breach American power plants with their malware Triton.
Hacking

Hackers Have Spent Months Trying to Breach America’s Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

The ACLU published a new report warning about the rise of AI-driven surveillance systems, which could strip away our privacy and cause overpolicing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Aided Video Surveillance Will Watch and Silently Judge Us

By Dan Robitzski

A semi-autonomous robot can go in and dismantle decommissioned nuclear reactors, handling some of the tricker tasks on its own.
Robotics

New Robots Can Safely Decommission Nuclear Reactors

By Dan Robitzski

Speaking to a crowd at E3, Elon Musk said once more that our reality is probably a simulation. But he says the plot could use some improvements.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: If Reality Is a Simulation, “The Plot Is Terrible”

By Dan Robitzski

We Talked To The New Leader of Space Nation Asgardia About What The Future Holds
Space

We Talked To The New Leader of Space Nation Asgardia About What The Future Holds

By Dan Robitzski

Retirees living in Boca Chica, the site of a SpaceX launchpad, shared complaints about the noise and secrecy surrounding rocket tests.
SpaceX

Local Retirees Furious About Elon Musk’s New SpaceX Launch Site

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Planner 5D is suing Facebook and Princeton University, claiming that they took, used, and shared its database of 3D models and simulations.
Artificial Intelligence

A Startup Is Suing Facebook, Princeton For Stealing Its AI Data

By Dan Robitzski

Beneath the Pacific Ocean, at the point farthest from any landmass, lies a mass grave where used spacecraft and decommissioned space stations go to rest.
Off-World

A Look Inside the Deep-Sea Graveyard for Dead Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

Experts argue that geoengineering, the umbrella term for hacking the planet to mitigate climate change, could lead to global conflict.
Climate Change

How Geoengineering Could Lead to World War III

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard geneticist George Church explains why he built a database of protective and harmful gene variations, and predicts how it could improve medicine.
Prosthetics and Devices

George Church Told Us Why He’s Listing Superhuman Gene Hacks

By Dan Robitzski

The Associated Press found that a LinkedIn profile for a "Katie Jones" was a made up cover likely belonging to a spy, and the profile photo was a deepfake.
Artificial Intelligence

A Spy Used a Deepfake Photo to Infiltrate LinkedIn Networks

By Dan Robitzski

Billionaire VC Vinod Khosla predicts that music as we know it will be gone in ten years, replaced by personalized AI-generated soundtracks.
Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire: Future Music Will Be AI-Generated to Match Our Moods

By Dan Robitzski

A new report finds that the U.S. military is the single largest producer of greenhouse gasses in the world, emitting more carbon than several countries.
Environment

The War on Terror is Murdering the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Jupiter's moon Europa, which many scientists suspect could support extraterrestrial life, has the same kind of salt in its oceans as Earth.
Moon

Jupiter’s Moon Europa Has Right Kind of Saltwater to Support Life

By Dan Robitzski

A new NASA study reveals why the Milky Way's black hole is so tranquil: a powerful and unique magnetic field is holding it at bay.
Black Holes

Here’s What’s Keeping the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole at Bay

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard geneticist George Church has assembled a database of genetic mutations that could give people superhuman-like capabilities or medical benefits.
Genetics

This Harvard Prof Is Listing Genes That Could Make You Superhuman

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just moved to the next phase of its Psyche mission. Now the spacecraft that will visit the distant asteroid is undergoing final design changes.
NASA

NASA Is Preparing to Explore an All-Metal Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built a new tool that matches DNA samples to specific faces from a database that could be linked to the specific genes found in the sample.
Facial recognition

Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases

By Dan Robitzski

a new companion robot called Irony Man was programmed to be ironic and sarcastic to better match how humans talk, but it doesn't know when to stop.
Robotics

Scientists Built a Robot With a Sense of Irony. It’s Insufferable

By Dan Robitzski

A new model reveals that black holes could take in a steady stream of antimatter particles that gradually chip away until the black hole dissipates.
Black Holes

New Research Reveals That Black Holes Can Die

By Dan Robitzski

According to the Department of Energy, geothermal energy could become a major player in the future of American electricity generation.
Geothermal

Energy Dept: Geothermal Power Has “Enormous Untapped Potential”

By Dan Robitzski

A brand-new subreddit called "newsbyAI" is full of fake news articles written by artificial intelligence systems that imitate the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence

New Subreddit Celebrates Bizarre Fake News Written by AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new law in Alabama will require that inmaes convicted of sexual crimes against a minor seeking parole will need to be chemically castrated.
Health & Medicine

New Law: Alabama Will Chemically Castrate Pedophiles

By Dan Robitzski

A new op-ed in the New York Times says that everyone can embrace a life of high-tech luxury, as long as the world embraces communism.
Future Society

NYT Calls For “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”

By Dan Robitzski

New Law in India Would Imprison Anyone Who Uses Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency

New Law in India Would Imprison Anyone Who Uses Cryptocurrency

By Dan Robitzski

Walmart executives have great things to say about their new robot workers, but human employees are less than thrilled about them.
Robotics

Walmart Employees Hate Their New Robot Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a new law that prohibits internet companies from selling user data without those people's explicit permission.
Science & Energy

Maine Bans Internet Companies From Secretly Selling User Data

By Dan Robitzski

The National Academy of Sciences overwhelmingly approved a new code of conduct that allows its governing council to expel sexual harassers.
Future Society

The National Academy of Sciences Cracks Down on Sexual Harassment

By Dan Robitzski

A robot sloth is expected to hang out in forest canopies with real slothes for months at a time, clinging to wires and tracking the environment.
Robotics

Scientists Built a Robot Sloth to Study Other Sloths

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency is about to test Vega, a new "satellite dispenser" that will cut space launch costs by stacking satellites like Legos.
Off-World

Europe Is Starting a “Ride-Share” for Small Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers just got their best look at the swirling layers of gas that orbit the black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Black Holes

Something Is Blocking the View of Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Swedish artists coded an ASCII penis and uploaded it to the Ethereum blockchain as part of an art project that they're calling digital graffiti.
Ethereum

Why Someone Hid a Giant Dong on the Ethereum Blockchain

By Dan Robitzski

New models show that scientists could use lasers and powerful magnets to manipulate superconducting materials or build quantum circuits.
Quantum Physics

Scientists Can Enhance Electronics by Shooting Them With Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

In July, Uber will launch a new helicopter service to shuttle New Yorkers from downtown Manhattan and JFK airport in Queens.
Advanced Transport

Uber Is Launching an On-Demand Helicopter Service

By Dan Robitzski

A new study examined heavy internet users and found both structural and physical changes to their brains. Their memories and attention spans both suffered.
Science & Energy

Wait, What? New Research Says Internet Use Is Killing Your Memory

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, The New York Times published a retroactive obituary for Alan Turing, the man credited as kickstarting artificial intelligence research.
Future Society

Alan Turing Finally Got His New York Times Obituary

By Dan Robitzski

A new biomedical technique lets scientists gene-hack an animal with CRISPR in vivo instead of having to remove and re-inject their cells.
Health & Medicine

Harvard Just Gene-Hacked Stem Cells Inside a Living Organism

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at the European Space Agency say that a crewed mission to Mars too dangerous to pursue because of high levels of cosmic radiation.
Mars

European Space Agency: Radiation Will Make Mars Mission Deadly

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientists built a new algorithm for self-piloting "roboats" that let them automatically latch together to form robot barges.
Robotics

Amsterdam Is Paying MIT to Develop Robot Barges For Its Canals

By Dan Robitzski

Circus Roncalli in Germany did away with its live animal shows. Instead, its using holograms to project virtual horses, elephants, and other animals.
Virtual Reality

A German Circus Is Using Amazing Holograms Instead of Animals

By Dan Robitzski

A company called GLITCH is selling dresses that were designed by an AI algorithm. It hopes to support more women in science and tech.
Artificial Intelligence

This Startup Is Selling “Little Black Dresses” Designed By AI

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. lawmakers proposed an amendment to federal patent law that would let biotech and pharma companies patent human genes.
Future Society

New Law Would Let Corporations Patent Human Genes

By Dan Robitzski

Deepfakes have become more powerful and accessible, but presidential candidates haven't taken steps to counter computer-generated misinformation.
Artificial Intelligence

Report: 2020 Candidates Are Going to Get Owned by Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

Democrats in the House of Representatives formally launched an antitrust probe into Silicon Valley to determine whether Facebook and Google are monopolies.
Future Society

Congress Is Deciding Whether to Break Up Facebook, Google

By Dan Robitzski

A new study figured out how young blood seems to revitalize older neurons. Two proteins from newborn mouse blood revitalized lab-grown human neurons.
Health & Medicine

Yeah, Young Blood Transfusions Do Seem to Fight Aging

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers just got their first complete observation of a star outside of our solar system erupting plasma out into the cosmos.
Off-World

A Star Just Coughed Something Up and Scientists Want to Know Why

By Dan Robitzski

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young
Biology

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young

By Dan Robitzski

The Army is accepting bids from contractors to build a rifle that could automatically targets and scan them with facial recognition.
Facial recognition

The US Army’s Next Rifle May Use Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

In order to pay for Artemis, NASA's upcoming 2024 Moon mission, it may have to cannibalize other parts of the space agency's budget.
Moon

NASA Is Considering Cutting Other Programs to Pay for Moon Mission

By Dan Robitzski

A new congressional report found that many ongoing NASA missions are drastically over budget and delayed past their deadlines.
NASA

Congress: NASA Is Hideously Over Budget, Plagued by Delays

By Dan Robitzski