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Fortnite Didn’t Do Anything New. That’s Why It Will Shape The Future Of Gaming.
Future Society

They put the best parts of other games in a big, cartoony blender, and now we can’t get enough.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech outlining the first steps toward the establishment of a new military branch, the Space Force.
Space Force

The Vice President outlines the first four steps in the plan.

Open-source tool Social Mapper can help white hat hackers keep up with the black hats, but also has the potential to create more of the latter.
Hacking

Is Social Mapper leveling the playing field? Or creating more bad guys?

Researchers have created an AI than can find scientists that deserve (but don't have) Wikipedia pages, helping close the site's gender gap.
Artificial Intelligence

Quicksilver finds scientists that deserve Wikipedia entries but don't have them yet.

New York City Council Capped The Number Of Ubers Allowed On City Streets
Future Society

It's hard to be an Uber driver. This cap might help. But Uber doesn't think so.

Unexplained “Sonic Attacks” Were Reported In China. Here’s What We Know.
Science & Energy

Sonic attacks or insecticide?

Three Signs Google Is Turning to the Dark Side
Future Society

Drone warfare and deceptive AIs sure don't sound "good."

There Is Literally No Logical Reason The US Should Allow *More* Uses for Asbestos
Future Society

But that isn't stopping the EPA from considering it.

A Robot Just Operated On A Human Eye for the First Time
Health & Medicine

It's insanely precise, exactly in the place where there's no room for error.

All the Rage in Sweden: Embedding Microchips Under Your Skin
Future Society

RIP wallets, implanted microchips are here to stay.

The Digest: Tech CEO Pitches Boeing a Flying Train Concept
Advanced Transport

It's a plane! It's a train! It's...kinda both?

Devil’s Kettle Falls: The Falls to Nowhere
From Quarks to Quasars

We Have No Idea What Having Sex With Robots Might Do to Us
Robotics

We should probably figure that out before everyone starts doing it.

Boston Dynamics’ Robot Just Went For A Cool Jog In The Garden, Like It’s No Big Deal
Boston Dynamics

The sentience wars continue.

Biologists Plan to Bring the Woolly Mammoth Back to Life by 2019
Science & Energy

We have reached the stage where we can resurrect extinct species.

An Injection of Salt in Your Eardrum Might Save You From a Lifetime of Hearing Loss
Health & Medicine

It's worth the needle to the eardrum.

The 10 Most Significant Scientific Discoveries Of the Year (So Far)
Space

It's proving to be one of the best years of the century, and we're barely halfway through.

The Digest: Ripple Is Giving Away Its Cryptocurrency to Get People to Use It
Cryptocurrency

One way to get people to use a currency? Make sure they have a lot of it.

Why Live on Earth When You Can Live in a Hole on Mars? No, Really.
Mars

We might not have any other choice.

Here’s The Conspiracy Tearing Bitcoin Crypto Communities Apart
Bitcoin

Here is the secret meaning behind the mysterious 21e8.