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Researchers have used Type 1 CRISPR-Cas3, which "shreds" DNA, in human cells for the first time, giving scientists a powerful new gene-editing tool.
DNA

Researchers Use CRISPR “Shredder” on Human DNA for First Time

It could help researchers discover DNA segments essential to diseases.

By Kristin Houser

Facebook just announced changes to how it handles dead peoples' memorialized accounts. It'll no longer suggest that you invite dead people to events.
Future Society

Facebook Will Stop Suggesting You Invite Dead People to Events

Facebook is gradually becoming a digital graveyard.

By Dan Robitzski

Passerine's drone uses its bird-like legs to jump into the air, overcoming a design flaw that plagues many other fixed-winged aircraft.
Drones

This Drone Takes off by Leaping With Bird-Inspired Legs

This drone launches itself into the air.

By Kristin Houser

A newly unveiled Energizer smartphone supposedly contains "the highest capacity battery ever seen in a smartphone" — but it's also incredibly big.
Robots and Machines

Energizer’s Brick-Like New Phone Has a Battery That Lasts 50 Days

It's reportedly "the highest capacity battery ever seen in a smartphone."

By Kristin Houser

Experts tell CNN they envision a future in which scammers use voice-mimicking technology to make robocalls sound like someone a target knows personally.
Artificial Intelligence

Prepare for Robocall Hell, Where Scam Bots Pretend to Be Your Mom

Future robocallers might sound just like your friends and family.

By Kristin Houser

On Wednesday morning, an international team of scientists will release the first-ever images of black holes. Quite understandably, scientists are pumped.
Black Holes

Here’s Why Everyone’s so Excited About the Black Hole Image

A "planet-sized" telescope is about to release first-of-their-kind images.

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. military recently invited some members of the press to test a prototype of IVAS, its advanced night-vision goggles with augmented reality features.
Military

The Military is Developing Augmented Reality Night Vision Goggles

"No other piece of equipment has had this kind of impact since the introduction of night vision."

By Dan Robitzski

A facial recognition trial focused on New York's Robert F. Kennedy Bridge didn't correctly identify a single person's face.
Facial recognition

New York’s Facial Recognition Trial Was a Complete Failure

The system didn’t correctly identify a single face.

By Kristin Houser

A new survey figured out how many bacteria and fungi are on the International Space Station. In some places, there are a billion cells per square meter.
International Space Station

The International Space Station is Teeming With Germs

Scientists did the first full survey of bacteria and fungi on the ISS. The results were icky.

By Dan Robitzski

The leader of Asgardia warns that world leaders must do more to prepare for a potentially life-threatening asteroid impact.
Off-World

The “Space Nation” Warns That an Asteroid Could Wipe out Humanity

"Future life-threatening impacts are inevitable unless defences [defenses] are built."

By Kristin Houser

In eight states, high schools are now offering esports as a varsity level sport for students, according to CNN — a glimpse of the future of sports.
Future Society

Schools in Eight States Now Have Varsity Video Game Teams

The nerds have become the jocks.

By Natalie Coleman

The YouTube account using Google's AI research to make synthesize videos of Trump singing is back, this time with "Sweet Dreams."
Google

Watch Google’s AI Make Trump Sing Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams”

Soon there'll be enough of these for a box set.

By Dan Robitzski

A number of American prisons have done away with in-person visitation, replacing it with sub-par video conferencing that generates revenue for the prison.
Future Society

Prisons Are Replacing Visits With Expensive, Grainy Video Calls

"It's not the same," said one inmate.

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on cancer detection shows that dogs can sniff out the disease in blood with an extremely high degree of accuracy.
Cancer

Dogs Can Sniff out Cancer With Nearly 97% Accuracy, Says Study

A trio of beagles could usher in the future of cancer detection.

By Kristin Houser

In a new profile, leaders in the movement to ban autonomous weapons such as killer robots describe how they're making progress.
Robotics

Meet the People Fighting Back Against Militarized Killer Robots

"Anything is inevitable if you do nothing to stop it."

By Dan Robitzski

A "super fungus" called Candida auris is cropping up in hospitals all across the globe, killing half the people who contract it within 90 days.
Health & Medicine

Deadly “Super Fungus” Could Be the Beginning of a Global Epidemic

"It is a creature from the black lagoon. It bubbled up and now it is everywhere."

By Kristin Houser

The Stentrode, the first neural implant that doesn't require open surgery, is poised to begin clinical trials to help paralyzed people communicate.
Brain

This Neural Implant Accesses Your Brain Through the Jugular Vein

The brain-computer interface lets paralyzed people type using their thoughts.

By Dan Robitzski

Several Chinese schools have started making students wear brain-scanning headbands that can detect when they start to lose focus or slack off.
Future Society

In Chinese Schools, Brain-Reading Headbands Measure Student Focus

You can't slack off with this brain-reading headband!

By Dan Robitzski

More and more Chinese citizens are opting for eco burials as a way to cope with the increasing price of grave plots due to a lack of land.
Future Society

In China, Overpriced Graves Force People to Bury Dead in Jars

"I think in the future, there will be more and more people joining this land-saving way of burial."

By Kristin Houser

Google's Deepmind just pitted its math-solving AI system against a 16-year-old's math exam. The exam won, and it wasn't that close.
Google

Google’s Best AI Just Flunked a High School Math Test

A high school math test bested Google Deepmind's algorithm.

By Dan Robitzski