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The new trailer for the upcoming Child's Play movie shows creepy doll Chucky commandeering a smart lawnmower, a thermostat, and a drone.
Future Society

In New “Chucky” Trailer, Killer Doll Terrorizes With IoT Gadgets

It's 2019, so in this horror movie your smart home gadgets are trying to kill you.

By Victor Tangermann

North Korea just announced a new missile test and made demands for ongoing disarmament negotiations with the U.S., calling for the removal of Pompeo.
Future Society

North Korea Says It Tested a New Weapon But Won’t Say What It Was

Weird flex but okay!

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook admitted yesterday that it "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of some 1.5 million new users since May 2016.
Future Society

Facebook “Unintentionally” Uploaded 1.5 Million Email Contacts

Reminder: your personal data is not safe with Facebook.

By Victor Tangermann

Alan Detrich, the man who found a baby t-rex fossil on his property, decided that he wants to sell it off. The fossil is currently up for auction on eBay.
Future Society

Someone Listed a T-Rex on eBay, and Paleontologists Are Furious

Bidding starts just under $3 million.

By Dan Robitzski

The creation of biased AIs is linked to the tech industry's overwhelmingly white, male workforce, according to a new report.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts: To Solve AI’s Bias Problem, Hire Fewer White Men

The industry's "diversity crisis" is partially to blame for its racist, sexist AIs.

By Kristin Houser

A humanoid robot TV news anchor dubbed Alex just read the news on Russia 24, a state-owned television channel, yesterday.
Robotics

Russia Built a Grotesque Robot Newscaster and Put It on TV

A robot TV anchor accused a mayoral candidate of kicking a homeless cat.

By Victor Tangermann

Using CRISPR gene editing tools, MIT scientists turned a human cell into a tiny computer that could be used to detect diseases and churn out treatments.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Used CRISPR to Turn a Cell Into a Biological Computer

"Imagine a microtissue with billions of cells, each equipped with its own dual-core processor."

By Dan Robitzski

A team from Yale created a system that let them breathe new life into pig brains that had been removed from the animals' skulls.
Science & Energy

Yale Scientists Kept Decapitated Pigs’ Brains Alive for 36 Hours

What is dead may never die — until you unhook it from the BrainEx system.

By Kristin Houser

After conducting an internal investigation into three professors who knew about He Jiankui's CRISPR baby research, Stanford let its faculty off the hook.
Prosthetics and Devices

Stanford Declines to Punish Faculty For CRISPR Babies

They knew about it beforehand, but did nothing to stop it.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered that one subregion of the Milky Way is far more efficient at star formation than the others — and they don't know why.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Mysterious Star-Forming Factory In Milky Way

Everything is star-stuff — but especially this place!

By Kristin Houser

This Attack Helicopter Can Launch Drones From Midair
Drones

This Attack Helicopter Can Launch Drones From Midair

Swarming drones could pour out of this helicopter to do its bidding.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX successfully landed three Falcon Heavy boosters last week. But stormy weather had a different plan for them, and one fell into the water.
Falcon

SpaceX Landed a Falcon Heavy Booster. Then It Fell Into the Sea.

Otherwise, everything went just fine.

By Dan Robitzski

The first human CRISPR trial in the U.S. has officially begun, with a UPenn team using the technology to treat two cancer patients.
Prosthetics and Devices

The US Has Officially Started Using CRISPR on Humans

We're about to see what CRISPR can do against cancer.

By Kristin Houser

Incredibly Tough NASA Sensor May Have Survived Moon Lander Crash
Moon

Incredibly Tough NASA Sensor May Have Survived Moon Lander Crash

Scientists are planning to hunt down the missing device.

By Dan Robitzski

By extending astronaut Christina Koch's space mission to 328 days, NASA hopes to glean new insights into the impact of longterm spaceflight on humans.
NASA

NASA Announces Plan to Keep Astronaut in Space for 328 Days

And the mission could help us finally send humans to Mars.

By Kristin Houser

A 1.5-meter device called a Z-pinch generated nuclear fusion, but not for long enough to be useful. Still, it shows that small-scale fusion is possible.
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Generated Nuclear Fusion With a Tabletop Device

There's just one catch.

By Dan Robitzski

Andrew Yang’s Goal: Steer Us Away From a Bleakly Dystopian Future
Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang’s Goal: Steer Us Away From a Bleakly Dystopian Future

Is the presidential hopeful the answer to a rapid decline in financial security and mental health?

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceIL has announced plans to build Beresheet 2, a sequel to the spacecraft behind the company's first failed Moon landing.
Moon

After Failed Moon Landing, Israel Vows to Try Again

"We're going to build a new spacecraft. We're going to put it on the Moon."

By Kristin Houser

Harvard astronomers found evidence that 'Oumuamua isn't the only interstellar visitor we've had in recent years. Others may have crashed into the Earth.
Off-World

An Interstellar Rock Like ‘Oumuamua May Have Hit Earth In 2014

The Harvard professor who says 'Oumuamua might have been an alien ship says something like it hit Earth a few years ago.

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists developed a new type of gene-hacking technology that acts like a DNA "shredder." It could be used to cure diseases like herpes.
Health & Medicine

New CRISPR Tech Could Cure Herpes

CRISPR-Cas3 can target and erase viruses in human cells — including, potentially, herpes.

By Dan Robitzski