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Startups that sequence your DNA have a new target market, according to a new story in The Atlantic: your long-dead ancestors.
DNA

DNA Ancestry Startups Have a New Target Market: The Long-Dead

"When they were licking those stamps... they were sealing their precious DNA for you forever."

Parts Suppliers Are Boycotting Russia’s Pistol-Shooting Android
Space

Parts Suppliers Are Boycotting Russia’s Pistol-Shooting Android

"Russia will develop its own systems as a result of this export ban."

MIT's mini cheetah robot is the first four-legged bot to execute a perfect backflip — and watching it learn that skill is incredible entertaining.
Robotics

See MIT’s Robot Land a Perfect Backflip — and Mangle Many Others

Yeah, it can execute a perfect backflip. But it can also twitch like it's being electrocuted.

YouTube is disabling all commenting on videos of kids in an effort to stop the "soft-core pedophilia ring" exploiting its website.
Future Society

To Fight Pedophiles, YouTube Disables Comments on Videos Featuring Kids

But how it will identify every video starring a child isn't clear.

Tesla Is Closing Its Dealerships to Only Sell Cars Online
Tesla

Tesla Is Closing Its Dealerships to Only Sell Cars Online

"You can now buy a Tesla in North America via your phone in about 1 minute."

By analyzing thousands of models of the distant solar system's evolution, astronomers think they've unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding Planet Nine.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Predict Planet Nine Has 5x the Earth’s Mass

They're optimistic we'll have an image of Planet Nine within 10 years.

Meet “Ripley,” the Dummy SpaceX Is Sending to the Space Station
SpaceX

Meet “Ripley,” the Dummy SpaceX Is Sending to the Space Station

"Ripley, she doesn't have bad dreams because she's a doll. "

Senator and 2020 hopeful Cory Booker introduced a bill Thursday that would legalize marijuana in the U.S. and retroactively expunge criminal records.
Future Society

New Senate Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Nationwide

It would also expunge criminal records related to weed.

IBM and food developer McCormick & Co developed a new AI platform that can create new foods better and faster than human experts.
Food

AI Trained on Decades of Food Research Is Making Brand-New Foods

IBM's AI scientists teamed up with McCormick & Company's food developers to enhance food research.

Tesla is officially launching its ever-popular Model 3 electric luxury sedan with a base price of $35,000, excluding tax credits and fuel savings.
Tesla

Tesla Finally Slashes Model 3 Price to $35,000

For real this time.

A study into Chinese censorship revealed that the nation doesn't want its citizens conversing about He Jiankui's genetically edited babies.
Future Society

China Is Censoring “Genetically Edited Babies” on Social Media

Articles on the topic are quickly deleted.

These Self-Driving Cars Won’t Let Drunk Drivers Take Control
Self-Driving Vehicles

These Self-Driving Cars Won’t Let Drunk Drivers Take Control

"We want to make sure that we don't give the control back to drivers that are not fit to drive."

The European Commission just published a report saying that Facebook, Google, and Twitter have all been too lax on their pledge to fight fake news.
Future Society

EU: Facebook, Google, Twitter Failed to Fight Fake News

"They need to live up to the standards we are asking of them."

For the first time, a doctor remotely advised a surgery team via a 5G connection, which delivered his instructions in near real-time.
Health & Medicine

Doctor Directs World’s First 5G-Powered Surgery

"This is a first step to achieve our dream."

European military tech contractor Rheinmetall Defense successfully tested a laser turret capable of taking down drones and mortar fire late last year.
Military

European Military Contractor Tests New Laser Weapon

This laser turret can take down drones and mortar shells.

Chinese scientists gave mice the ability to see near-infrared light by injecting special nanoparticles into their retinas.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Give Mice “Super Vision” With Eye Injections

Scientists gave mice the ability to see near-infrared light, which is normally invisible.

CEO Sam Altman: AI might well replace most jobs as we know them today, but the market will be flooded with new "sort of human to human jobs."
Artificial Intelligence

Y Combinator CEO: AI Will Replace Jobs, But Life Will be Awesome

"It'd be great if every student had an individual teacher."

What if an ai, paired with an app, can find you true love? That's what Netflix's new dystopian show Osmosis is imagining in a new trailer.
Artificial Intelligence

Terrifying Netflix Trailer Skewers The Horror of Algorithmic Love

A terrifying vision of what would happen when Tinder meets cutting-edge AI and biotech.

Bill Gates believes cancer vaccines are a breakthrough technology poise to change the world, according to a piece he penned for MIT Technology Review.
Cancer

Bill Gates: Custom Cancer Vaccines Will Revolutionize Medicine

"Scientists are on the cusp of commercializing the first personalized cancer vaccine."

When the Green New Deal was published, many criticized its deliberate exclusion of nuclear energy. Nuclear fusion doesn't exist yet, but may someday help.
Energy

The Problem With AOC’s Green New Deal: It Ignores Fusion Power

"We are going to need solutions beyond what's currently in our portfolio."