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TechCrunch reports Facebook is running a program that pays users ages 13 to 35 $20 in e-gift cards for access to all of their information.
Data Privacy

Facebook Got Busted Paying Teenagers $20 a Month for Private Data

Facebook is still snooping.

By Victor Tangermann

A 26-ton electric excavator is about to hit construction sites in Norway — and it has the potential to dramatically decrease the nation's emissions.
Advanced Transport

This Massive All-Electric Excavator Has a 3.4 Ton Battery Pack

This Caterpillar rig can operate for up to seven hours without needing a charge.

By Kristin Houser

Amazon has started to test autonomous delivery robots in Washington State. Meanwhile, lawmakers are struggling to properly regulate the new tech.
Robotics

Lawmakers Don’t Know How to Regulate Amazon’s Delivery Robots

"Is it a motor vehicle, is it a pedestrian?"

By Dan Robitzski

By scanning the brains of people while they tripped on LSD, researchers think they've figure out how the drug causes its effects.
Science & Energy

Scientists Might Have Finally Figured out How LSD Works

They asked 25 people to trip for science.

By Kristin Houser

Despite "less than 0.3% of the budget of large international projects," a team of Japanese astronomers found a tiny object at the edge of our Solar System.
Off-World

Astronomers Find Rare, Distant Space Object With $3,000 Telescope

"This is a real victory for little projects."

By Victor Tangermann

The new rectenna developed by MIT engineers is the first that's flexible enough for wearables while still generating practical amounts of electricity.
Energy

MIT Says a New Gadget Could Use Wi-Fi to Power Your Smartphone

Where we're going, we don't need batteries.

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli pharmaceutical company Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies claims it is working on a cancer cure that will be ready within a year.
Cancer

Israeli Scientists: We’ll Have a Cure for Cancer Within a Year

An Israeli pharmaceutical company is making some very bold claims.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at the University of Arizona found that astronauts who spent more than six months in space had fewer cells capable of fighting off leukemia.
Cancer

New Research: Space Travel Hurts Cells That Fight Cancer

Astronaut first-timers are more vulnerable than their veteran colleagues.

By Victor Tangermann

A new algorithmic tool can determine if artificial intelligence is biased and then go in and retrain the system to treat people more equitably.
Artificial Intelligence

A New Algorithm Trains AI to Erase its Biases

It's like sensitivity training for algorithms.

By Dan Robitzski

In a world's first, neuroengineers from Columbia University have built a device that translates thoughts into recognizable speech.
Health & Medicine

Listen to a Gadget That Translates Thoughts Into Speech

The device could be a game-changer for people who've lost the ability to speak.

By Kristin Houser

A bombshell report revealed a shocking Apple bug in the company's FaceTime video chat app that lets callers eavesdrop on other users before they pick up.
Robots and Machines

Bizarre Apple Bug Let FaceTime Callers Spy on Each Other

Apple's drastic response: taking Group FaceTime offline entirely.

By Jon Christian

According to a new report, the Trump Administration has attacked science more than 80 times — and it's time for Congress to fight back.
Future Society

A New Report Claims The Trump Era Has Been Terrible for Science

The "administration is undermining science in the policy process."

By Kristin Houser

During an interview, the head of psychedelic research at Imperial College in London said that "the climate's looking good" for psychedelic treatments.
Health & Medicine

Scientist Tells World Leaders MDMA and Magic Mushrooms Should Be Legal

"The climate's looking good."

By Victor Tangermann

NSA's Curiosity rover just took a last selfie before leaving the Vera Rubin Ridge on the surface of Mars. Its next stop is a suspected dried-up lake bed.
NASA

NASA’s Rover Sends Home Captivating Selfie of Martian Landscape

It's probably better than anything you took on vacation.

By Victor Tangermann

Florida Law Would Allow Self-Driving Cars With No Safety Drivers
Self-Driving Vehicles

Florida Law Would Allow Self-Driving Cars With No Safety Drivers

Politicians are dangerously optimistic about autonomous cars.

By Dan Robitzski

Over the next year, cameras will record life aboard the International Space Station to create a virtual reality series for TIME.
Virtual Reality

See the Stunning New Trailer for a VR Series Filmed on the ISS

For the next nine months, cameras will record life aboard the ISS.

By Kristin Houser

According to a cryptocurrency security firm only two prominent hacker groups were responsible for stealing "around $1 billion" in cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency

Two Hacker Groups Pilfered $1 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency

And they're still at large.

By Victor Tangermann

A UK airport is planning a three-month trial of robot valets that increase the number of available spaces by parking cars more closely together.
Robotics

Robot Valets Will Drag Your Car Into a Parking Spot at UK Airport

The bots save space by parking cars more closely to one another.

By Kristin Houser

He Jiankui, who drew criticism when it emerged that he gene-edited babies, told an adviser about the work many months before it became public.
Prosthetics and Devices

Nobel Prize Winner Knew About Gene-Edited Babies, Kept Quiet

"I think you are taking a big risk and I do not want anyone to think that I approve of what you are doing."

By Jon Christian

To prevent high-energy plasma from breaking down fusion experiments, Princeton physicists built a railgun to disperse the plasma's built-up energy.
Physics

New Railgun-Like Device Stabilizes Fusion Reactions

Just in time for the big fusion experiment planned in France.

By Dan Robitzski