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Diabetes Patients Are Hacking Together the Tech They Need. Doctors Are Just Tuning In.
Health & Medicine

Patients have been hacking together their devices to create a DIY artificial pancreas.

Op-Ed: We Gave Corporations Our Data. Now They’re Deciding How AI Will Affect Our Future.
Artificial Intelligence

While we’re deciding how we feel about AI, companies like Google are already shaping our future.

MIT’s New Robot Can Visually Understand Objects It’s Never Seen Before
Artificial Intelligence

After it learned to pick up one shoe, the system could do the same with shoes it had never seen before.

Drone Racing: The Next Battleground For AI to Try to Dominate Humans
Artificial Intelligence

They'll navigate complex courses in a series of four races.

Google’s New Search Engine Could Solve a Major Problem in the Scientific Community
Science & Energy

Need a dataset? Just Google it.

The Most Far-Out Statements From Elon Musk’s Wide-Ranging Interview With Joe Rogan
Elon Musk

We listened to the whole interview so you didn't have to.

Artificial intelligence agents in a simulated environment developed became biased against dissimilar agents without any outside influence.
Artificial Intelligence

Taken to its extreme, AI that runs the world could even develop an anti-human bias.

Two companies are ready to try manufacturing optical fibers aboard the International Space Station to improve their quality.
Off-World

The process could produce purer cables.

Artificial Intelligence

The future of health is on the horizon.

A group of hospitals has come together to form Civica Rx, a not-for-profit company that will manufacture in-demand generic medications.
Health & Medicine

This nonprofit could ensure patients always get the meds they need.

The US Has Tons of Spaceports But Not Enough Launches
Off-World

We don't need 10 spaceports for 29 launches per year.

Goldman Sachs is delaying plans for cryptocurrency trading operation due to regulatory uncertainty, according to a Business Insider report.
Bitcoin

The Wall Street bank might not be ready to dive into crypto's turbulent waters.

Sugar Pills Can Help Tiny Robots Navigate Your Body
Health & Medicine

This specific kind of pill keeps the bots from releasing drugs too early.

It’s Now Way Easier to Manipulate Individual Atoms in 3D
3D Printing

The technique could make quantum computers a whole lot more sophisticated.

Social Media Giants Need Regulation From a Government That’s Unsure How To Help
Future Society

Congress is ready to help tech companies win the war against misinformation. If only it knew how.

Japan Will Soon Conduct The First Test of Elevator Movement in Space
Off-World

It's an important step towards making a space elevator into a real, useful tool.

An African nation has agreed to let researchers release genetically engineered mosquitoes into the wild as part of a plan to eradicate malaria.
Health & Medicine

This is the first step of a long-term plan to eradicate malaria from the region.

Artificial intelligence will change life for the better. But there are reasons to be cautious as well. Five experts tell Futurism what most worries them.
Artificial Intelligence

A future governed by AI is promising. But it's also scary.

The U.S. Army is eyeing a system that traps military drones while they're on the move, which could help the devices avoid detection by enemies.
Drones

It can launch or capture drones while on the move.

Loungewear Infused With Science Takes Relaxation To A Whole New Level
Health & Medicine

You rest. Let the clothes do the work.