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A shopping study found that people who use their phones for non-shopping related tasks while at the store make more unplanned purchases.
Future Society

Playing on Your Phone at the Store Could Make You Buy More Junk

New research shows that your phone could even cause you to forget items you actually meant to buy.

By Kristin Houser

"Millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014" have been combed over by hundreds of outsourced workers in Hyderabad.
Future Society

Outsourced Workers Are Training AIs With Your Private FB Posts

For years, millions of private Facebook posts were hand-labeled by third-party contractors.

By Victor Tangermann

A web developer wants to turn San Francisco parking lots into coworking spaces, desks, folding chairs, and all.
Future Society

SF Is so Expensive That People Are Using Parking Spots as Offices

Would you use a parking space for coworking?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists figured out how to 3D print a functional "lung" made of inflatable air sacs that can oxygenate blood just like a real lung.
3D Printing

New Video Shows 3D Printed Lung “Breathing”

The air sac can be seen pumping oxygenated blood, just like a lung.

By Dan Robitzski

A massive new report by the United Nations concludes that a million species are under threat of extinction — and humans are to blame.
Science & Energy

United Nations: One Million Species Are Poised to Go Extinct

"This loss is a direct result of human activity."

By Kristin Houser

In IHMC Robotics' new video, its humanoid robot Atlas autonomously traverses suspended wooden planks and wobbly cinder blocks.
Robotics

Watch This Hulking Robot Play “The Floor Is Lava”

See it walk across suspended planks and wobbly cinder blocks.

By Kristin Houser

Gaia, an ESA satellite charged with plotting the course of the stars, just discovered three new asteroids orbiting the Sun at a peculiar angle.
ESA

ESA Satellite Accidentally Discovered Three New Asteroids

Gaia was supposed to map the stars. It found something new instead.

By Dan Robitzski

An artificial intelligence-powered pun generator created by Stanford Researchers attempts to prove that a neural network can have a sense of humor, too.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Is Spitting Out Coherent, Almost-Funny Dad Puns

AI won't be writing our comedy specials quite yet — but maybe some day.

By Victor Tangermann

Boston-based startup ClimaCell pulls data from cell phones, street cameras, connected vehicles, and drones to forecast weather conditions.
Science & Energy

This Startup Uses Cell Phone Signals to Forecast Weather

And the tech has the potential to save lives in developing nations.

By Kristin Houser

In a medical first, doctors saved a stabbing victim's life by performing open-heart surgery in the street because he wouldn't have survived to the hospital.
Medical

Medical First: Doctor Performs Open Heart Surgery in the Street

The stabbing victim probably wouldn't have survived the trip to a hospital.

By Dan Robitzski

Hubble scientists just assembled a dizzying composite image made of 16 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations that includes 265,000 galaxies.
Off-World

Tiny Specks Zoom Into Beautiful Galaxies In Amazing Hubble Image

16 years of data showing 265,000 galaxies all in one image.

By Dan Robitzski

Produce grown by startup Iron Ox's robot farm is now available for purchase, a futuristic example of how technology is transforming agriculture.
Robotics

Futuristic Robot Farm Begins Selling Its First Produce

Your next salad could include greens cultivated by a robot named Angus. 

By Kristin Houser

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over
Robotics

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over

Do you know how fast you were going?

By Victor Tangermann

A Stanford scientist says that "hearables," devices that communicate with our brains through our ears like smart hearing aids, are coming soon.
Brain

Stanford Scientist Says In-Ear Gadgets Will Monitor Our Brains

"The ear is like a biological equivalent of a USB port."

By Dan Robitzski

The practice of microdosing psychedelic drugs is reaching the mainstream, according to a newly published piece in The Guardian.
Health & Medicine

Moms Are Microdosing Magic Mushrooms, Just Like Tech Execs

"It definitely doesn’t impair my ability to parent. If anything, my awareness is sharpened."

By Kristin Houser

InfoWars came back online not even a day after Facebook announced the ban with a page titled "Infowars is back."
Future Society

InfoWars Made a New Facebook Page One Hour After Ban

Facebook is losing a game of whack-a-mole.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at LIGO just observed the gravitational waves given off by a black hole as it consumed a neutron star for the first time.
Black Holes

Scientists Just Detected a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star

It was the fifth gravitational wave detection at LIGO in April alone.

By Dan Robitzski

Four tissue chips designed to mimic various process in the human body are headed to the International Space Station to help scientists study disease.
SpaceX

SpaceX Is Sending Living Bits of Human Organs to Space

And what they discover could help us battle disease here on Earth.

By Kristin Houser

As cobalt mines run low, scientists think they could start harvesting it from the ocean. They have a plan to get enough for over 500,000 Tesla batteries.
Advanced Transport

Ingenious Gadget Could Harvest Battery Material From the Ocean

Dangling these orbs from unused oil rigs could soak up enough cobalt for hundreds of thousands of electric cars.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are hoping a new upgrade at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) could finally make fusion a reality by coating the reactor in lithium.
Energy

Scientists Have a New Idea to Make a Fusion Reactor Practical

This silvery-white metal could help make fusion energy a reality.

By Victor Tangermann