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Apple, Facebook, and others have rolled out new tools to help us reduce our screen time. But that might not be enough to help us put our phones down.

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

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at NVIDIA created a neural network that can come up with incredibly realistic faces on the spot.

Artificial Intelligence

Look at These Incredibly Realistic Faces Generated By A Neural Network

By Victor Tangermann

It’s 2018. Here Are Six Scientific Mysteries We Still Haven’t Solved.

Science & Energy

It’s 2018. Here Are Six Scientific Mysteries We Still Haven’t Solved.

By Victor Tangermann

A CRISPR Future: Five Ways Gene Editing Will Transform Our World

A CRISPR Future: Five Ways Gene Editing Will Transform Our World

By Victor Tangermann

IBM has unveiled a sleek, and sexy commercial quantum computer called the IBM Q System One at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

IBM Just Unveiled Its First Commercial Quantum Computer

By Victor Tangermann

California-based meat substitute company Impossible Foods plans to sell raw "meat" in grocery stores by the end of the year.

Artificial Intelligence

Impossible Burger 2.0: “I Couldn’t Tell It Wasn’t The Real Thing”

By Victor Tangermann

Harley-Davidson announced its long-awaited LiveWire electric motorcycle will go on sale in August for a cool $29,799.

Advanced Transport

Harley-Davidson’s Electric Motorcycle Will Go on Sale in August

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk: First Commercial Crew Test Will Be “Especially Dangerous”

Elon Musk: First Commercial Crew Test Will Be “Especially Dangerous”

By Victor Tangermann

See China’s Lunar Rover Set Off Across the Far Side of the Moon

See China’s Lunar Rover Set Off Across the Far Side of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Futuristic Hotel Suite Would Drive You Around While You Sleep

Futuristic Hotel Suite Would Drive You Around While You Sleep

By Victor Tangermann

In a world's first, Chinese lunar probe Chang'e-4 just touched down on the far side of the moon -- the more mysterious, and lesser known side.

China Just Landed a Rover on the Far Side of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In a live stream, NASA's New Horizon spacecraft team revealed new details about Ultima Thule — a space rock floating 6.6 kilometers away from Earth.

Here’s NASA’s Newly-Released Image of Ultima Thule

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent radio interview, Dutch astronaut André Kuipers recalls how he accidentally ended up calling American emergency services while on board the ISS.

An Astronaut Accidentally Dialed 911 in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists set off a massive explosion in the Nevada desert to test special earthquake-detecting balloons that could one day be deployed over Venus.

NASA Wants to Send Earthquake-Detecting Balloons to Venus

By Victor Tangermann

A researcher's new astonishing software called "Photo Wake-Up" allows 3D character animations to simply "walk out" of a static image frame.

This Algorithm Can Create 3D Animations From A Single Still Image

By Victor Tangermann

After whizzing past Pluto in July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is fast approaching Ultima Thule — an odd space rock 6.6 billion kilometers away.

New Horizons Will Fly Past the Most Distant Object We’ve Ever Visited

By Victor Tangermann

A group of researchers at Yale University successfully taught a robotic system about ownership relations and the social norms that surround those relations.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Taught an AI About Ownership Rules and Social Norms

By Victor Tangermann

Congress just introduced a bill calling for sanctions against Iran's efforts to develop its own digital currency.

The U.S. Challenges Iran’s Attempt to Develop a Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Local law enforcement and transport agencies will have to come up with a solution to ward off unwanted drones at airfields.

We Have No Idea How to Deal With Unexpected Drones at Airports

By Victor Tangermann

After investigating Swarm Technologies for months, the FCC finally settled with the space startup for launching unauthorized satellites in January.

FCC Fines Startup for Launching Satellites Without Permission

By Victor Tangermann

Bloomberg reports that Facebook may be working on creating its own cryptocurrency in the form of a stablecoin for WhatsApp users.

Facebook is Reportedly Creating Its Own Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology discovered a cloud of gas that was created around the time of the Big Bang.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Found Ancient Remains of a Big Bang “Fossil Cloud”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's InSight lander just successfully placed its seismometer five feet from itself onto the surface of Mars.

NASA’s Mars Lander Places Instrument to Listen for “Marsquakes”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX’s Reusable Dragon 2 Crew Capsule Is Covered in Solar Panels

SpaceX’s Reusable Dragon 2 Crew Capsule Is Covered in Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

The Boring Company just threw a big party to show off its newly completed first stretch of its test tunnel in Hawthorne, California.

Advanced Transport

The Boring Company Just Showed Off Its First Completed Tunnel

By Victor Tangermann

UNICEF announced a one month old child born in Cook's Bay on Erromango Island received the world's first drone-delivered vaccine.

A Child Was Immunized By the World’s First Drone-Delivered Vaccine

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to its partnership with startup Nuro, supermarket chain Kroger is starting to make deliveries via its autonomous bots without any drivers.

Self-Driving Vehicles

U.S. Grocer Kroger Has Begun Making Autonomous Deliveries

By Victor Tangermann

Trump Signs Order to Create a U.S. Space Command

Trump Signs Order to Create a U.S. Space Command

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's new "Toilet Humor" and "Romance Mode" features allow owners to make their Teslas fart and play Marvin Gaye. Why?

Tesla’s “Toilet Humor” Mode Is Real and It’s Called “Emissions Testing”

By Victor Tangermann

VRgineers's $5,800 virtual reality headset called XTAL features a pair of quad HD displays and a generous 180 degree field of view.

Virtual Reality

This New $5,800 Headset is the Rolls Royce of Virtual Reality

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that launched in 2009 could assist future commercial and international lunar landers.

NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Could Assist Commercial Missions to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A new study from scientists at Stony Brook University found that moon dust particles could react with human cells — and potentially lead to cancer.

Breathing in Moon Dust Could be Even More Toxic Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

California became the first state to mandate that all new mass transit buses have to be electric by 2029. All buses will have to electric in 2040.

Advanced Transport

All New Public Buses in California Have to Be Electric by 2029

By Victor Tangermann

BMW and Porsche's new 450 kW "FastCharger" can allegedly give your EV a 100 km range boost in just three minutes of charging.

Porsche and BMW’s New EV Chargers Are 3x Faster Than Tesla’s

By Victor Tangermann

This week, scammers have started emailing hoax bomb threats to schools and hospitals, demanding bitcoin payments in exchange for not setting off explosives.

Scammers Sent Hoax Bomb Threats Worldwide Demanding Bitcoin

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with CNBC's Making It, billionaire Richard Branson said that three or four day weekends could be a reality for "most people" in the future.

Richard Branson: Future of Work Is “Three and Even Four Day Weekends”

By Victor Tangermann

British self-driving-car software startup Wayve has figured out a way to teach an AV how to drive exclusively using a simulation — not real world streets.

Self-Driving Vehicles

An Autonomous Car Learned How to Drive IRL Inside a Simulation

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Galactic's suborbital spaceplane VSS Unity just reached an altitude of 82.7 km. But can we really call that space?

Did Virgin Galactic’s Spaceplane Reach Space? Depends Who You Ask

By Victor Tangermann

Russian TV Tried to Pass a Man in a Suit off as A High Tech Robot

Russian TV Tried to Pass a Man in a Suit off as A High Tech Robot

By Victor Tangermann

CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them

Robots and Machines

CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Galactic is planning to send its second SpaceShipTwo spaceplane called VSS Unity to "space for the first time." But what does that mean exactly?

Virgin Galactic Is Going to Space. Depending on Your Definition of Space.

By Victor Tangermann

People Are Road Raging At Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars

Self-Driving Vehicles

People Are Road Raging At Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Volvo's new electric truck is about to deploy on the streets of Hamburg, Germany. And they could beat Tesla's semi to the punch.

Volvo’s Electric Garbage Truck Is Its Answer to Tesla’s Big Rig

By Victor Tangermann

In a hearing in front of a House Committee, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google had "no plans" to launch a search product in China.

Google CEO: “No Plans” To Launch Censored Chinese Search Engine

By Victor Tangermann

Experts in the 3D bioprinting and regenerative health field got together to come up with ways space agencies could use the technology to treat astronauts.

To Heal Injured Astronauts, Experts Want to 3D Print “Skin, Bone and Body Parts”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft found evidence of "hydrated minerals" on the surface of Bennu, an asteroid millions of miles away.

A NASA Probe Just Found Evidence of Water on a Distant Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

A landmark research study at the National Institute of Health is finding that too much screen time is changing the way children's brains are developing.

New Research: Screen Time Is Literally Changing Children’s Brains

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk: “I Do Not Respect the SEC”

Elon Musk: “I Do Not Respect the SEC”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's team at JPL just recorded the first sounds from the Martian surface ever to be heard back on Earth.

A World First: Listen to the Sounds of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

British carmaker Aston Martin is creating a swappable electric drivetrain that could convert its classic cars into EVs.

Advanced Transport

Aston Martin is Relaunching Some of Its Vintage Cars As EVs

By Victor Tangermann

China just successfully launched a rocket with a lunar rover on board that will hopefully get the first-ever close-up look at the dark side of the Moon.

China Launches First-Ever Lander Headed to Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Insight Lander just flexed its arm to find the right spots to place its scientific instruments.

NASA’s InSight Lander Just Flexed Its Arm and Took a Selfie

By Victor Tangermann

When An Earthquake Strikes, Crawl Inside This Egg-Shaped Safety Pod

Science & Energy

When An Earthquake Strikes, Crawl Inside This Egg-Shaped Safety Pod

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk just revelaed the Boring Company will not only reveal its first tunnel in December, it will have "road legal autonomous cars" ready as well.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company to Launch “Road Legal” Autonomous Cars

By Victor Tangermann

The Most Powerful Ion Drive Ever is About to Blast a Spacecraft to Mercury

The Most Powerful Ion Drive Ever is About to Blast a Spacecraft to Mercury

By Victor Tangermann

The California Building Standards Commission voted unanimously to approve new standards that require new homes to use solar energy.

California Now Requires Solar Panels on All New Homes

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, it could take 20 years for quantum-safe encryption to become mainstream. And that's bad news.

Researchers: Quantum Computers Could Become Ultimate Hacking Tool

By Victor Tangermann

Elgan Aircraft's "Plimp" is capable of vertical take off and landing, make it ideal for a whole range of different uses.

Advanced Transport

This “Ultra-Safe” Aircraft Is a Cross Between a Plane and a Blimp

By Victor Tangermann

Listen To An AI’s Nightmarish Beatboxing

Artificial Intelligence

Listen To An AI’s Nightmarish Beatboxing

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX was hoping to launch a cargo mission to the ISS today. But moldy food bars meant for some 40 mice on board is delaying the mission by a day.

SpaceX Just Delayed Its Next Cargo Launch Because of Mold

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Is Testing Its Cashierless Tech in Big Box Stores

Amazon Is Testing Its Cashierless Tech in Big Box Stores

By Victor Tangermann

NVIDIA's latest AI technology can recreate an entire 3D scene by learning from a real-life video.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Dreams Up Trippy Video Games Based on Real Life Video

By Victor Tangermann

The InSight team at JPL have discovered that the spacecraft landed at a four degree angle in a large, sand-filled impact crater.

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Landed in a “Large Sandbox” at a Slight Angle

By Victor Tangermann

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