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A high-tech suit vibrates to let users feel music — a new way for everyone to experience sound, according to its creators, but especially for deaf people.
Prosthetics and Devices

Everyone can try synesthesia with a suit that translates music into touch.

Automation is eating into food and hospitality jobs. Unions are demanding measures that will protect staff from being replaced by robots.
Artificial Intelligence

Hotels want robots to be your bellhop. Human bellhops: uh hello?

Nuclear Power Used to Seem Like the Future. Now Its Fate in the US Is in Question.
Nuclear Fusion

There are good things about nuclear power. But it's definitely fallen out of fashion.

For the first time ever, researchers have discovered radio jets launching from a neutron star with a strong magnetic field.
Science & Energy

"For the first time ever, we have observed a jet coming from a neutron star with a very strong magnetic field."

MIT researchers have created Fiberbots, autonomous robots that can weave fiberglass into tall tubes that we could one day use for construction projects.
Robotics

They could be used to build large structures like bridges or shelters in space.

A new NIH program aims to sequence the DNA of a million volunteers, to better understand genetic variation between people and develop new treatments.
Health & Medicine

It's the Human Genome Project — times a million.

This week, Philippine inventor Kyxz Mendiola took his Koncepto Milenya, a flying sports car prototype, out for its first public test flight.
Drones

The first test ride lasted 10 minutes, and "everything worked perfect.”

Researchers in Hong Kong have invented a robot that looks like a caterpillar. It's designed to travel through your body and release drugs.
Medical

Its legs have good traction on "different tissues inside the human body."

Researchers have created an AI that can identify a person with 92 percent accuracy after recording just seven consecutive footsteps.
Artificial Intelligence

Sherlock Holmes could do it. Now so can AI.

Ridesharing app Uber agreed to pay a whopping $148 million fine today for covering up a 2016 hack — and bribing the hackers not to release the data.
Advanced Transport

Uber just agreed to pay $148 million for covering up a 2016 hack. User trust is already shaky.

Japanese space exploration company ispace is teaming up with SpaceX on two lunar missions, one in mid-2020 and the other in mid-2021.
Moon

It's helping an XPRIZE competitor finally reach the lunar surface.

Robotics

They adjust their actions based on a person's cultural background.

DNA

It's the first time a gene drive drove a population to collapse.

Artificial Intelligence

It alerts gas station staff to any signs of unsafe behavior.

DNA

This is a collaboration we could do without.

Science & Energy

In the future, we'll know a lot more about the past.

Artificial Intelligence

An “auxiliary human” composed the lyrics and melodies.

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts
Future Society

One for China, one for everyone else.

Steel Is A Huge Polluter. New Technologies Could Make it Green.
Science & Energy

Steel is a really useful material. It'd be better if we could make it without emitting so much carbon dioxide.

Scientists Just Took A “Spectacular Step” Towards Lab-Grown Human Egg Cells
Health & Medicine

We've never been this close to creating human eggs.