More from Kristin Houser (Page 9)

A Michigan town is upgrading its high school with features designed to minimize fatalities in the event of a school shooting.
Future Society

This $48M School Was Designed to Minimize Mass Shooting Deaths

By Kristin Houser

An Illinois resident had died from a mysterious respiratory illness related to vaping, and officials still aren't certain as to its cause.
Chemistry

Officials Announce First Death From Vaping-Related Illness

By Kristin Houser

A BMW covered in Vantablack, a coating that absorbs nearly all light, is about to go on display at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Advanced Transport

BMW Unveils a Car Coated in Vantablack

By Kristin Houser

PayPal has suspended an account used by the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to collect donations from supporters.
Future Society

PayPal Suspends Ku Klux Klan’s Donation Account

By Kristin Houser

First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes
Developments

First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX said it didn't do anything to avoid a satellite collision because a software bug prevented it from knowing the risk of a crash had increased.
SpaceX

SpaceX Blames Bug for Decision Not to Avert Satellite Collision

By Kristin Houser

Authorities in Hong Kong are spraying crowds of protestors with canons full of blue dye to make them easy to identify for later arrest.
Future Society

Police Are Spraying Protesters With Dye to Round Them up Later

By Kristin Houser

Inventor Richard Browning donned his Iron Man-style jet suit to deliver a letter to the Isle of Wight — and broke a personal flight record in the process.
Advanced Transport

Watch the Iron Man-Style Jet Suit Inventor Fly to an Island

By Kristin Houser

Chinese deepfake app Zao replaces famous actors with iPhone users' faces, and though popular, it has quickly raised serious privacy concerns.
Artificial Intelligence

New Deepfake App Lets You “Act” in Popular Movies, TV Shows

By Kristin Houser

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch took to Twitter to share terrifying photos of Hurricane Dorian that they'd snapped from the ISS.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Snap Terrifying Photos of Hurricane Dorian

By Kristin Houser

To avoid a collision with one of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, the ESA was forced to perform a first-of-its-kind "collision avoidance manoeuvre."
ESA

SpaceX Wouldn’t Move Its Satellite to Avoid a Collision, Says ESA

By Kristin Houser

A ransomware attack left approximately 400 dentist offices hacked and without access to their computer files, and most are still trying to regain it.
Future Society

Bizarre Ransomware Attack Targets True Villainy of World: American Dentists

By Kristin Houser

An Australian man has uploaded a video of himself hanging from a drone while fishing — and the whole stunt appears to have gone surprisingly well.
Drones

See a Man Dangle From Drone to Literally “Fly” Fish

By Kristin Houser

Google security researchers have uncovered an extensive iPhone hacking effort that may have compromised thousands of users weekly for years.
Google

Google Uncovers Massive, Multi-Year iPhone Hacking Effort

By Kristin Houser

A life expectancy study found that Americans with four-year degrees saw their mortality rates drop between 2010 and 2017, while rates increased for others.
Studies

Lifespans Increasing for Educated Americans, Falling for Others

By Kristin Houser

MIT's autonomous boats can now shapeshift, starting in one configuration, separating, and then joining up to form a new configuration.
Self-Driving Vehicles

MIT’s Fleet of Autonomous Boats Can Now Shapeshift

By Kristin Houser

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak believes his recent interview with Bloomberg was misinterpreted, and he wants to set the record straight.
Future Society

Steve Wozniak: I Didn’t Mean the Gov’t Should Break up Apple

By Kristin Houser

Tesla has launched a car insurance program in the U.S. that it claims will be able to save drivers up to 30 percent on their rates.
Tesla

Tesla Just Launched a Car Insurance Program

By Kristin Houser

In an interview with "CBS This Morning," JUUL Labs CEO Kevin Burns called the rash of respiratory illnesses related to vaping "worrisome."
Chemistry

JUUL CEO Tries Blaming “Worrisome” Vaping-Related Illness on THC

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with an extremely elliptical orbit that sets it apart from any other known planet.
Science & Energy

Newly Discovered Exoplanet Is “Unlike Any Other”

By Kristin Houser

A first-of-its-kind study will test the ability of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in "magic mushrooms," to treat chronic anorexia nervosa.
Health & Medicine

Trial Testing Psilocybin’s Impact on Anorexia Launches in US

By Kristin Houser

Vaping cannabis oil sold under the brand name Dank Vapes left a man with severe heart and lung damage, according to his brother.
Chemistry

Vaping Black-Market Cannabis Oil Is Putting People Into Comas

By Kristin Houser

YouTube is suing a Nebraska man for allegedly lauching a swatting attack against a popular Minecraft streamer after attempting to extort money from them.
Future Society

YouTube Sues Man for Allegedly Swatting a Minecraft Streamer

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have created a theoretical model of Saturn that posits that the gas giant's liquid interior is viscous, flowing like honey.
Science & Energy

Saturn’s Interior May Actually Flow “Like Honey”

By Kristin Houser

KFC sold out of all the plant-based "chicken" available at an Atlanta restaurant on Tuesday, a sign that customers are eager to try faux meats.
Future Society

KFC Sold All of Its Meatless “Chicken” in Five Hours

By Kristin Houser

After Tesla fired Carl Medlock, he began repairing the company's Roadsters on his own, and today, he's well known amongst the Roadster community.
Tesla

Meet the Guy Tesla Fired, Who Now Fixes Roadsters

By Kristin Houser

Super intelligent cyborgs will soon replace humans as Earth's dominant species, British futurist James Lovelock argues in his new book "Novacene."
Future Society

Futurist Predicts Cyborgs Will Replace Humans on Earth

By Kristin Houser

By transitioning pets to diets rich in insects, we could help save the environment and alleviate world hunger, experts told the BBC.
Future Society

Scientists Say You Should Feed Insects to Your Dog or Cat

By Kristin Houser

The DEA will begin reviewing applications from researchers interested in growing marijuana, finally making good on a 2016 promise.
Chemistry

DEA Announces Plan to Expand Researchers’ Access to Marijuana

By Kristin Houser

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes Pluto is a planet — but not because he thinks the scientific definition of planethood is flawed.
Science & Energy

Pluto Is a Planet, Insists NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine

By Kristin Houser

Americans are subject to a social credit system like China's, but it's managed by tech companies and not the government, according to Fast Company.
Future Society

Report: America Has a Social Credit System Much Like China’s

By Kristin Houser

KFC will begin selling Beyond Fried Chicken made from Beyond Meat's plant-based protein at an Atlanta restaurant to test customer response.
Future Society

KFC to Begin Selling Meatless Fried “Chicken”

By Kristin Houser

President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested nuking hurricanes before they can reach the U.S., several anonymous sources told Axios.
Science & Energy

Report: Trump Has Repeatedly Suggested Nuking Hurricanes

By Kristin Houser

NASA astronaut Anne McClain's estranged wife has accused her of committing what may be the first example of a "space crime."
NASA

NASA Astronaut Accused of First Space Crime

By Kristin Houser

A Canadian company is building a geothermal energy project so benign, its CEO claims you could "literally put it in someone's backyard."
Geothermal

This Geothermal Energy System Could Be Built in a Backyard

By Kristin Houser

A Danish initiative imagines 3D printers that can walk, fly, and swim, navigating the world autonomously to repair roads, reefs, and high rises.
3D Printing

Designers Want to Give 3D Printers Legs, Let Them Wander the Earth

By Kristin Houser

The first large-scale study of a polypill showed the cheap, once-daily medication was able to prevent cardiovascular disease.
RX and Medicine

This Cheap “Polypill” Could Reduce Your Risk of a Heart Attack

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese first that creates cloned pets says it's considering ways to use artificial intelligence to clone animals memories.
Science & Energy

Chinese Firm Wants to Give Cloned Pets the Original’s “Memories”

By Kristin Houser

Dealers are using Snapchat and other social media platforms to sell illegal guns — and it's getting them caught by federal agents.
Future Society

Dealers Are Using Snapchat to Sell Illegal Guns

By Kristin Houser

A study found that Instagrammers who post a lot of selfies are perceived as less adventurous, less successful, and more lonely than "posie" posters.
Future Society

Your Selfies Make You Look Like a Lonely Loser, Study Finds

By Kristin Houser

A life-sized humanoid robot named Fedor began its journey from Russia to the International Space Station on Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket.
Off-World

Russia Just Sent Its First Robot to Space

By Kristin Houser

A new blood test that looks at just 14 biomarkers could one day allow doctors to predict the likelihood you're going to die within five to 10 years.
Studies

This Blood Test Seems to Predict if People Are Going to Die Soon

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft says humans no longer review audio of Xbox users for "product improvement purposes" — but that doesn't mean they aren't still listening.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft: We Stopped Listening to Your Xbox Convos “Months Ago”

By Kristin Houser

German startup Volocopter hopes its wild-looking VoloCity VTOL will service the world's first on-demand air taxi service.
Advanced Transport

Volocopter Unveils 18-Rotor Electric Air Taxi for Two

By Kristin Houser

If the U.S. and Russian engaged in nuclear war, it would plunge the Earth into a nuclear winter, with tempteratures plummeting and soot blocking the Sun.
Future Society

This Is What Would Happen if the US and Russia Nuked Each Other

By Kristin Houser

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry shared a chainmeme to his Instagram and Twitter feeds, apparently unaware that it was a hoax.
Future Society

Instagram Hoax Fools Department of Energy Head Rick Perry

By Kristin Houser

A sex robot created by DS Doll Robotics is incredibly life-like, adding credence to predictions that we may be headed to a future rife with "digisexuals."
Robotics

Unsettling Sex Robot Looks Almost Exactly Like a Real Person

By Kristin Houser

Starup Starship Technologies plans to deploy its autonomous delivery robots on 100 college campuses within the next 24 months.
Robotics

This Startup Is Deploying Thousands of Autonomous Delivery Robots

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX will attempt to take photos of its spacefaring Starman dummy in "a few years," according to a new tweet from CEO Elon Musk.
SpaceX

Elon Musk: SpaceX Will Launch a Spacecraft to Check on Starman

By Kristin Houser

In a newly filed lawsuit, an Illinois teen accuses JUUL and Phillip Morris of violating the RICO Act by marketing their e-cigarettes to minors.
Developments

Teen Files Lawsuit Against JUUL, Phillip Morris for Targeting Kids

By Kristin Houser

A new study linking a pregnant person's flouride intake to their future child's IQ has been met by a wave of criticism from the scientific community.
Studies

Scientists Decry New Study Linking Fluoride to Lower IQ in Kids

By Kristin Houser

Tesla Solar is now giving homeowners in six states the option of renting its solar panels for as little as $50 per month, with a $1,500 uninstall fee.
Tesla

You Can Now Rent Tesla Solar Panels for Crazy Cheap

By Kristin Houser

The Porthcawl Town Council is denying that it planned to build high-tech anti-sex toilets, saying its "enthusiasm and intentions" were misinterpreted.
Future Society

Town Denies Planning to Install High-Tech Anti-Sex Toilets

By Kristin Houser

A major cyberattack could cause mass injury and death not unlike a nuclear weapon attack, according to one computer scientist.
Future Society

Scientist: Major Cyberattack Could Be as Bad as Nuclear War

By Kristin Houser

The FDA has proposed 13 new cigarette warnings, each featuring a statement on the health impacts of smoking along with a color image.
Cancer

FDA Proposes Grotesque New Warning Images for Cigarette Packs

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX's Starman test dummy just completed its first orbit around the Sun in a Tesla Roadster, a journey that took 557 days.
SpaceX

SpaceX’s Starman Just Orbited the Sun for the First Time

By Kristin Houser

Young people are sprucing up their résumés with bitmojis, logos, and other embellishments, and it's leaving a bad taste in the mouths of some recruiters.
Future Society

Members of Gen Z Are Putting Bitmojis on Their Résumés

By Kristin Houser

Chinese search engine Sogou is creating AI author avatars to narrate the writers' books in both their voices and their likenesses
Artificial Intelligence

These AI Author Avatars Will Read Their Books to You

By Kristin Houser

A startup developing a marijuana breathalyzer just secured funding through Y Combinator, one of the world's top accelerators.
Robots and Machines

This Startup Created a Marijuana Breathalyzer

By Kristin Houser

Amazon claims its Rekognition software can now detect fear on a person's face, as well as provide a better estimate of their age.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Claims Rekognition Can Now Detect Fear

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have reported finding eight new repeating fast radio bursts, potential alien signals, brining the total number of known repeaters up to 10.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Detect Eight New Potential Alien Signals

By Kristin Houser

The FAA is banning anyone from bringing an Apple recalled MacBook on flights — though it's not clear how it plans to enforce the ban.
Robots and Machines

FAA Bans Exploding MacBooks From Airplanes

By Kristin Houser

The first trial of a chlamydia vaccine in humans delivered promising results, with researchers already looking forward to the next steps.
RX and Medicine

New Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Promise In First Human Trial

By Kristin Houser

Starting in 2023, the United State's nuclear stockpile will be managed by El Capitan, a supercomputer with a peak performance of 1.5 exaflops.
Computers

This $600 Million Supercomputer Will Manage the US’s Nukes

By Kristin Houser