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Clean coal doesn't exist, but burning it in as clean a way as possible could give us more time to adopt clean, renewable energy around the world.
Climate Change

Fossil fuels have no long-term future. But we could burn them in a greener way.

Glimpse: Utopian Fiction Could Help Us Unlock the Bright Future We Never Imagined
Future Society

We're drawn to narratives like Handmaid's Tale and Black Mirror. But they're not helping us create a better world.

Automakers Hyundai and Kia will beginning adding a solar roof to select cars in 2019, allowing the Sun's energy to help power the vehicles.
Solar Power

Automakers are finally getting serious about solar-powered cars.

Malta launched a new AI task force to develop a plan for safe, effective, beneficial AI. It will also determine how a robot might earn citizenship.
Artificial Intelligence

The country is preparing to enter the AI big leagues.

China is sharing its censorship and surveillance knowledge with other nations, including many in Africa, according to a new report.
Future Society

The country is schooling others on how to control citizens online.

Microsoft's underwater data center off the cost of Scotland could be the first of many the company deploys to support its cloud technology.
Science & Energy

Cooling servers is hard work. Why not let the chilly ocean do it?

Whether it's to manage the world better than we do or give us new insight into how our own minds work, many experts agree we should make a human-level AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Machines as smart as people could build a much better future.

Elon Musk claimed that Tesla's cars will soon be able to "follow you like a pet" and take directions "like a big [remote controlled] car."
Tesla

But the CEO has a long history of missing deadlines.

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy
Science & Energy

Don't worry, it's only devouring our galaxy slowly.

With a spinal implant boosting paralyzed people's brains' commands, they were able to walk short distances for the first time since their injuries.
Health & Medicine

Early test runs show promising results, but the device isn’t a cure-all.

Federal research into universal basic income shows that regular cash payments don't reduce employment at all. In fact, it seems to help.
Universal Basic Income

We have evidence that UBI truly helps, but it won’t solve our problems.

NASA is hard at work on a "factory" that'd let future Mars missions — or even colonists — extract rocket fuel from Martian soil.
NASA

Promising NASA research could make Mars missions far more realistic.

Lime Recalled Thousands of Scooters Because They Were Catching Fire
Advanced Transport

Because blocking sidewalks wasn't annoying enough.

A slew of tech billionaires, including Bill Gates and Richard Branson, are determined to make cost-effective nuclear fusion a reality.
Science & Energy

Branson, Bezos, and Gates are investing big in fusion companies.

A vaping detection system with AI-powered sensors is alerting officials in the U.S. and Canada to the signs of vaping in school bathrooms.
Artificial Intelligence

They're using AI to crack down on teen vaping.

What Astronauts’ Tweets Could Tell Scientists About the Psychology of Space Travel
Off-World

If you thought Twitter was bumming you out here on Earth, try tweeting from space.

Waymo is the first company to receive a permit to test truly driverless cars — autonomous vehicles without a safety driver — on California roads.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-driving cars will roam California roads without their "training wheels."

Researchers from Ghent University have figured out a way to store data in a powder, and it could help us move away from magnetic storage solutions.
Chemistry

It could be the storage medium of the future.

MIT wants to allow internet users to give commands to a real-life hired actor on Halloween. Terrible idea or fascinating social experiment?
Virtual Reality

The internet can tell them what to do — within limits.

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful
Artificial Intelligence

Scary movie soundtracks are better left to the human composers.