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Self-Driving Vehicles

The Digest: Baidu’s Autonomous Buses Will Start Transporting Passengers in Japan Next Year

The company just landed an order for 10 of its buses.

Future Society

The Digest: First Rhino Embryos Produced in a Lab Could Save Almost-Extinct Subspecies

The northern white rhino isn't gone yet.

Moon

The Digest: Blue Origin Plans to Begin Colonizing the Moon No Later Than 2023

“It is time for America to return to the Moon — this time to stay."

Blockchain

Here’s Why The Blockchain Might Change the Future (And Why It May Not Live Up To the Hype)

It's started to expand into applications both useful and bizarre.

Health & Medicine

The Digest: The World’s Smallest Surgical Robot Is Almost Ready for the Operating Room

The bot can decrease patients' risk of infection and need for painkillers.

Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: This AI Analyzes Ash to Figure out the Cause of a Volcanic Eruption

Knowing what kind of volcano they're dealing with can help emergency responders deploy resources wisely.

Brain

The Digest: Shocking A Person’s Brain Could Make Them Less Violent, Study Shows

People whose brains were shocked were 47 percent less likely to intend to commit an assault.

Facial recognition

The Digest: Facial Recognition Tech Is No Match for Juggalo Makeup

Facial recognition systems can't ID fans of ICP.

Science & Energy

The Digest: A New Cloaking Approach Could Potentially Make Objects Invisible From Every Direction

"Our work represents a breakthrough in the quest for invisibility cloaking."

Mars

The Digest: 20 Mice Are Going to Space To Help Us Figure out How to Survive on Mars

Houston, we've got mice.

Health & Medicine

The Digest: Amazon Buys Online Pharmacy, Dives Deeper Into Healthcare Industry

Amazon snaps up PillPack for a reported $1 billion.

Data Privacy

The Digest: California Cracks Down on the Companies Harvesting Your Data

It allows consumers to opt-out if companies sell their data.

Falcon

The Digest: SpaceX Just Launched a Last-of-Its-Kind Falcon Rocket

Out with the Block 4s and in with the Block 5s.

Blockchain

How Scalable Blockchain Technology Can Bring Us Closer to Earth 2.0 [Sponsored]

A massively scalable blockchain that could fundamentally change how our world operates.

Investing

Google Is Investing in the Not-Quite-So-Smart Smartphone Market

It’s all part of Google’s “Next Billion Users” initiative.

Future Society

The Digest: Amazon Needs More Delivery Companies and Wants You to Start Them

For $10,000, you can start your own company that delivers packages exclusively for Amazon.

Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: With AI, Forecasters Can More Accurately Predict Storms And Save Lives

AI can predict what humans can't see.

Facial recognition

New Facial Recognition Software Tracks and Protects Endangered Primates

Snap a pic, and this app can ID the individual animal.

Advanced Transport

The Digest: Boeing’s Hypersonic Concept Jet Could Cut Flight Times by 85 Percent

You could travel from NYC to Tokyo in just two hours.

Exobiology

The Scientist Who Reevaluated The Drake Equation Still Thinks Alien Life is Out There

We talked to the author of a recent study that complicates the likelihood that we're alone in the universe.