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A series of neural nets wrote a novel based on what it saw and heard while being driven around the country. It's, uh, interesting.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Took a Road Trip and Wrote a Terrible Novel About It

If “that guy in your MFA” were a robot.

Investigators have charged California resident Anthony Aiello with the murder of his stepdaughter — based on her Fitbit data.
Data Privacy

Fitbit Data Helped California Police Track Down a Murder Suspect

Investigators charged a California man with murder — based on the victim's Fitbit data.

The Five Funniest Things about the SEC’s Lawsuit against Elon Musk
Elon Musk

The Five Funniest Things about the SEC’s Lawsuit against Elon Musk

Musk's probably not laughing though.

This Humanoid Robot Can (Slowly) Install Drywall All by Itself
Robotics

This Humanoid Robot Can (Slowly) Install Drywall All by Itself

Coming soon to a construction site near you...

Glimpse: Why Are Tech Companies Pouring Money Into Instant Translators?
Artificial Intelligence

Glimpse: Why Are Tech Companies Pouring Money Into Instant Translators?

Do we *really* need to speak every language on earth? Tech companies seem to think we do.

Lockheed Martin is proposing to send a four-crew lunar lander from the Lunar Gateway to the surface of the moon. And it weighs a ton.
Moon

Lockheed Martin’s Giant Moon Lander Is an Absolute Unit

In awe of the size of this lad.

Training a neural net to decode a person's brain signals and send them to a robotic limb led to better, precise control over prosthetics.
Brain

A Neural Network, Connected to a Human Brain, Could Mean More Advanced Prosthetics

The AI system was better at understanding what the brain wanted to do.

A fertility clinic in California gives would-be parents the option of scanning embryos for eye color, putting us one step closer to "designer babies."
Prosthetics and Devices

You Can Now Pick Your Baby’s Eye Color Before You’re Even Pregnant

This fertility clinic lets parents screen embryos for eye color.

Transcend Air says its prototype aircraft could whisk a half-dozen passengers at a time between Boston and New York in less than 40 minutes.
Advanced Transport

This Futuristic Aircraft Could Take You From New York to Boston in 36 Minutes

A conventional jet would require closer to three hours.

The First Full-Scale Hyperloop Passenger Capsule Has Arrived
Hyperloop

The First Full-Scale Hyperloop Passenger Capsule Has Arrived

It'll be ready for passengers in 2019.

Researchers Think They’ve Discovered the First Moon Outside Our Solar System
Solar Power

Researchers Think They’ve Discovered the First Moon Outside Our Solar System

It’s 4,000 light years away, and answers a lingering question about our universe.

Don’t Want to Receive That Presidential Text Alert Today? Here’s How to Avoid It
Future Society

Don’t Want to Receive That Presidential Text Alert Today? Here’s How to Avoid It

We’ve found three technology “hacks” to keep your phone from buzzing along with everyone else’s at 2:18.

For the first time, researchers discover gamma rays emanating from the microquasar SS 433, and they aren't coming from the usual source.
Science & Energy

We Just Learned Something New About “One of the Weirdest Objects in the Milky Way”

An exotic microquasar just got a bit more special.

Tesla Seems to Be Producing Plenty of Cars. They Just Aren’t Ending up on the Road.
Tesla

Tesla Seems to Be Producing Plenty of Cars. They Just Aren’t Ending up on the Road.

Why are so many Teslas parked in lots across the US?

The FDA Just Raided the Headquarters of E-Cigarette Maker JUUL
Future Society

The FDA Just Raided the Headquarters of E-Cigarette Maker JUUL

Is Juul still marketing vapes to teens?

Thought it's Subterranean Challenge, DARPA is asking teams of roboticists to create autonomous robots that can navigate underground environments.
Robotics

The Military Wants Robots That Can Explore Tunnels Barely Large Enough to Fit a Human

Good thing robots can’t be claustrophobic.

The Arch Foundation plans to encode important books and crowdsourced images into synthetic DNA molecules and store them on the Moon.
Moon

A Nonprofit Plans to Store Human Knowledge in DNA and Store It on the Moon

Then it wants to deposit similar caches all over the solar system.

The Stuff in IKEA’s Biodegradable Packaging Will Now Make Tasty Lab-Grown Meats
Science & Energy

The Stuff in IKEA’s Biodegradable Packaging Will Now Make Tasty Lab-Grown Meats

Fill your innards with IKEA packaging! Well, sort of.

To study the effects of deep space radiation exposure on astronaut health, researchers exposed mice to comparable levels of radiation. It hurt their guts.
Mars

Traveling to Mars Could Cause Life-Threatening Damage to Astronauts’ Guts, Says Study

Spend months in space, and you could develop cancer.

Google DeepMind built the largest-scale generative adversarial network to date. The algorithm can make photorealistic pictures of burgers and dogs.
Google

Google Used Its Most Sophisticated AI yet to Create Pictures of Burgers

The singularity will be hot and juicy.