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The latest clean transportation offering from Elon Musk is the Tesla surfboard, a $1,500 limited edition short board that sold out almost immediately.
Tesla

Did you want Tesla to make a surfboard? No? Well they did anyway.

Google unveiled the Enterprise Edition of Google Glass. Instead of unleashing it on the public, they think it will help factory workers.
Google

AI powered glasses might actually make sense on a factory floor, where no one cares if you look like an idiot.

Cryptomining Malware Is Infecting Corporate Networks Worldwide
Cryptocurrency

You might not even notice that PowerGhost is on your computer, using its power to mine crypto for some hacker.

Dentists Are Now Using Tech to Monitor Patients’ Stress Levels
Future Society

You might not dread your next cleaning.

AI Coaches Are Here To Unleash Your Inner LeBron
Artificial Intelligence

HomeCourt could be the first of many apps to use AI to offer elite-level coaching for everyone.

23andMe has signed an agreement to no longer parter with anyone but British pharmaceutical company GSK on any drug discovery projects.
Science & Energy

It's a for-profit company, and it saw a way to make money.

Virgin Galactic successfully completed the third supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane.
Off-World

This was its third powered test flight.

Amazon's facial recognition software is far from perfect, an ACLU experiment shows. Maybe Amazon should stop marketing it to government agencies.
Artificial Intelligence

ACLU's test illustrates why law enforcement officials shouldn't rely on the system.

Australian researchers have created a purposefully biased AI to illustrate the problems such systems could cause in the future.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI makes snap judgements about your personality based on how you look.

Augur, a decentralized app where people wager crypto on world events, has given a platform for an assassination marketplace
Blockchain

Augur was intended to allow people to predict things without interference of a central authority. But, of course, the internet ruined it.

This Startup Is Trying To Fix Journalism By Putting It On the Blockchain
Blockchain

Civil's plan is complex, but if it works the way organizers hope, it might just usher in a new age of journalism.

Congressional lawmakers just agreed on a defense bill for 2019 that does not include funding for the establishment of a space force.
Space Force

Looks like it won't happen next year.

After internet monitors repeatedly removed an article detailing the unsafe vaccines in China, citizens added it to the Ethereum blockchain.
Blockchain

They've found a way around the nation's internet monitors.

According to Europe's highest court, gene-edited crops are genetically modified organisms and should be regulated the same way as GMOs.
Science & Energy

Experts say the decision could "slam the door shut on this revolutionary technology."

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars
Mars

The discovery puts a decades-long debate to rest.

It’s Not Uber’s Fault That NYC’s Public Transportation Sucks
Advanced Transport

The MTA shot itself in the foot, and blamed its limp on its cast.

By adding a seemingly harmless pop up to popular BlockExplorer site Etherscan, a hacker may have prevented a far more nefarious hack from taking place.
Cryptocurrency

The "elite" hacker could have done a lot more damage.

The Department of Homeland Security revealed in a briefing that Russians hacked U.S. utility companies
Hacking

"They got to the point where they could have thrown switches."

Chinese officials are determined to bring to justice Changsheng Bio-Tech, a manufacturer selling unsafe vaccines for rabies and DPT.
Health & Medicine

A huge proportion of the world's drugs are manufactured in China.

DARPA has announced a new program focused on funding projects focused on third wave AI, the kind that can understand and explain its answers.
Artificial Intelligence

It's the next step to creating AI that can reason and engage in abstract thought.