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The people most opposed to GM foods, foods modified in the lab to exhibit wanted characteristics, overestimate their knowledge of the subject the most.
Science & Energy

Strongest Opponents of GM Foods Know the Least About Them

But they think they know the most.

By Kristin Houser

A regional grocery chain is deploying a fleet of 500 robot assistants name Marty, yet another sign that robots are the future of retail.
Artificial Intelligence

Grocery Chain Adds 500 Googly-Eyed Robot Assistants to Its Staff

Marty is ready to spot spills in 172 stores.

By Kristin Houser

Tesla is offering up a mid-range Model 3 for anybody capable of hacking into it at a security event in Vancouver, Canada.
Tesla

Tesla Is Giving Away a Model 3 if You Can Successfully Hack One

Hackers have three days at a security conference in Vancouver.

By Victor Tangermann

Wiliot has raised an additional $30 million after demonstrating its battery-free Bluetooth chip, which pulls power from ambient radio signals.
Internet Of Things

World’s First Battery-Free Bluetooth Chip Pulls Power from the Air

It could make everything you own “smart.”

By Kristin Houser

Facebook has already divvied up the first $37 million that it will send to organizations that help fund local news coverage around the world.
Investing

Facebook is Investing $300 Million in Local Journalism Projects

"People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientist repurposed CRISPR to develop better antibiotics
Science & Energy

Researchers Repurposed CRISPR to Help Develop Better Antibiotics

Here's how a gene-editing tool is helping us to stay healthy.

By Jacob Banas

China’s Lander Just Sprouted First-Ever Plants on the Moon
Moon

China’s Lander Just Sprouted First-Ever Plants on the Moon

It's the first time humans have ever successfully grown anything on the lunar surface.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla’s Powerpacks Could Modernize Greece’s Electric Grid
Tesla

Tesla’s Powerpacks Could Modernize Greece’s Electric Grid

Greek authorities have met with Tesla with discuss a collaboration.

By Victor Tangermann

New research sheds light on how supermassive black holes, like the one at the center of the Milky Way, get so massive. It takes more than just eating stars.
Black Holes

Astronomers Figured out How Supermassive Black Holes Get so Big

Those big boys are gulping down a lot of cosmic gas

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers believe the brain reconstructs memories in the reverse order that it creates them, moving from the big picture onto the finer visual details.
Brain

The Human Brain Reconstructs Memories in Reverse Order

Instead of starting with the details, it retrieves the big picture first.

By Kristin Houser

Henn na Hotel in Japan is reportedly decommissioning half of the robots it used to have running the show. Too many were buggy or just plain annoying.
Robotics

Japan’s Robot Hotel Just Laid Off Half Its Robots

Automation? In this economy?

By Dan Robitzski

We simply can't decrease fossil fuel usage quickly enough to avoid climate catastrophe without leaning heavily on nuclear energy, according to two experts.
Energy

Experts: The Only Way to Save the Planet Is Nuclear Energy

Other renewables simply can't scale up fast enough.

By Kristin Houser

In China, Tesla has begun to add specially designed locks to parking spots to prevent Supercharger ICEing, the parking on non-EVs in Tesla charging spots.
Tesla

Tesla Found a Clever Way to Prevent Supercharger ICEing

The company is locking ICE drivers out of parking spots.

By Kristin Houser

A report from the Chinese media claims that the NYPD is using facial recognition software developed by Chinese companies.
Facial recognition

China Claims US Police Are Using Its Facial Recognition Software

It's reportedly less biased than the tech developed Stateside.

By Kristin Houser

General Motors (GM) luxury division Cadillac just gave us a first look at its response to the Model X at a car event in Detroit.
Advanced Transport

Cadillac Just Teased the First Images of Its Electric SUV

And it could give Tesla's Model X a run for its money.

By Victor Tangermann

We need to improve robot surgeons' sense of touch before the machines can truly reach their potential, according to one surgeon.
Health & Medicine

Experts Want to Give Robot Surgeons a Sense of Touch

Until they do, many operations will prove too difficult for bots.

By Kristin Houser

According to research by Standard Chartered Bank, China will have the world's strongest economy by next year, with India taking second place by 2030.
Future Society

China Poised to Overtake US Economy in 2020

"The global middle class is at a tipping point."

By Dan Robitzski

The chair of Harvard University's Astronomy Department defended his controversial hypothesis that an interstellar object could be an alien probe.
Exobiology

Harvard Astronomer Defends Hypothesis That Object Is Alien Probe

"We have no way of knowing whether it’s active technology, or a spaceship that is no longer operative and is continuing to float in space."

By Jon Christian

A sleeping woman on a sofa who may have taken sleeping pills to aid her slumber
Sleep

A New Class of Drugs Could Make Safer Sleeping Pills

Sleep when you want it, consciousness when the house is on fire.

By Jacob Banas

Electricity producing bacteria may one day play a big roll in producing the Earths energy
Bacteria

New Technique Makes Electricity-Producing Bacteria More Useful Than Ever

These tiny power producers could charge our future with clean energy.

By Jacob Banas