Read the latest articles from Futurism (Page 1032)

Unilever has teamed up with a squad of academics and electronics manufacturers to create a gadget that'll tell you if you have body odor.
Machine Learning

A Deodorant Maker is Using Machine Learning to Detect Your B.O.

The maker of Axe Body Spray is working on tech to detect odors.

DARPA hopes to find a way to counter Russia's missiles that can allegedly travel 20 times the speed of sound. It won't be easy.
Future Society

The Pentagon Needs Help Intercepting “Hypersonic” Nukes

The military’s research division just put out a call for project ideas.

The Two Fastest Supercomputers on Earth Belong to the US
Computers

The Two Fastest Supercomputers on Earth Belong to the US

The latest rankings show the U.S. coming out on top.

According to Bloomberg, Waymo is about to announce the world's first commercial driverless car service in Phoenix, Arizona, putting them ahead of the curve.
Advanced Transport

Yep, It’s Real: Your Next Rideshare Could Be Driverless in as Soon as a Month

The program would put Waymo ahead of the curve.

Spanish scientists just let some photosynthetic bacteria go to town on stool samples. They turned it into biofuel and filtered out any greenhouse gases.
Bacteria

A Purple, Photosynthetic Bacteria Can Turn Your Poop Into Power

“Household sewage” can now be turned into hydrogen gas and useable carbon.

A newly uploaded video featuring a drone bike theft is probably fake, but it does draw attention to the possibility of the devices supporting crime.
Drones

Watch a Drone Steal a Bicycle

It's likely a hoax, but the video could foreshadow the future of crime.

We Should Make Dangerous Robots Look Dangerous, Says Roboticist
Robotics

We Should Make Dangerous Robots Look Dangerous, Says Roboticist

There's a lot we could convey through a robot's appearance.

Companies in the UK are implanting microchips in their employees that can be used to access company buildings and store information.
Prosthetics and Devices

British Companies Are Implanting Microchips in Their Employees

It's a convenient way to deal with security, but it raises privacy concerns.

Sources close to the matter shared details on Samsung's foldable phone, including its price and release date, with Yonhap News Agency.
Robots and Machines

Here’s What Samsung’s Foldable Phone Will Probably Cost You

You might want to start saving now.

A combination of machine learning and new data gathering tools could help warn firefighters in California earlier and possibly even save lives.
Machine Learning

How Machine Learning Could Help California Fight Wildfires

Wildfires are tearing California apart. Maybe AI could help.

Tesla developed bioweapon defense mode to help drivers in the event of an attack, but it's also helping them breathe during California's wildfires.
Tesla

Tesla’s “Bioweapon Defense Mode” Is Helping Californians Breathe

It's filtering the smoke from nearby wildfires.

Mattereum wants to tokenize the whole economy and become the platform that brings digital smart contracts to tangible investments.
Blockchain

Why a Blockchain Startup Bought This $9 Million Stradivarius Violin

Mattereum wants to tokenize the real world.

How Facebook Flags Terrorist Content With Machine Learning
Machine Learning

How Facebook Flags Terrorist Content With Machine Learning

But it's not perfect.

Cartoons From Tomorrow, a book of Futurism Cartoons.
Future Society

Coming Soon: Our First Book Based on Futurism Cartoons

Nationwide release coming September 2019.

German researchers have grown human heart tissue that expresses genes, responds to drugs, and beats just like the real thing.
Health & Medicine

See Lab-Grown Human Heart Tissue Beat Like a Real Heart

Researchers coaxed stem cells into forming pulsating heart tissue.

Sadness is associated with a particular neural circuit connecting the amygdala with the hippocampus, which helps store memories.
Brain

Researchers Found What Sadness Looks Like in the Brain

Sadness is linked with the circuit between memory and emotion.

A new charge-storing system looks like a fabric that can be stitched into whatever you're wearing that day, helping discretely power biosensors.
Science & Energy

A New Battery Can Be Stitched Into Clothes to Power Wearables

Instead of a bulky battery pack, it looks like any other embroidered logo.

The headmaster of a Chinese high school lost his job after he was discovered mining crypto using the school's electricity.
Cryptocurrency

Headmaster Fired for Stealing School’s Electricity to Mine Crypto

He racked up a $2,120 energy bill over the course of a year.

New 3D maps of the Earth's crust hidden beneath Antarctic ice reveal new fragments of ancient continents, perhaps broken off when Pangaea split.
Space

A Satellite Found Remnants of Lost Continents Under Antarctica

Beneath Antarctic ice lie swaths of rocky crust left from since-destroyed landmasses.

Walmart plans to create an Intelligent Retail Lab (IRL) in its Levittown location to explore how AI could improve the shopping experience.
Artificial Intelligence

Walmart Wants to Use AI to Track Everything Happening in Its Stores

The retailer wants to harness the power of tech.