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Future Society

Experts Answer: Who Is Actually Going to Suffer From Automation?

Is it time to start thinking about a career change?

A new NASA-funded study drawing on 20 years of research says we simply can't terraform Mars using technology available today.
Mars

Scientists Say We Can’t Terraform Mars. Elon Musk Says We Can.

SpaceX's CEO shrugs off 20 years of NASA research.

On Tuesday July 31, Mars will come closer to Earth than it will for another 269 years. Take a look now before it moves on.
Mars

Stop And Look Up: Mars Is Super Close To Earth Right Now

It won't be this close again for another 269 years.

OpenAi just unveiled Dactyl, an AI system trained to control a robot hand using the same algorithms used to train computer game playing AIs.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”

A single algorithm can teach AI to do very different tasks, like juggle dice or play video games.

Uber just announced plans to shutter its self-driving truck division, at least temporarily, while it focuses on its self-driving cars.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Uber Kills Self-Driving Truck Division, Clearing the Road for Tesla

The path ahead just got a little less crowded.

NASA has selected five final designs for its 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. Someday, we might use them construct our dwellings when we live on Mars.
Mars

Here Are The Finalists For NASA’s Mars Habitat Design Competition

It's gotta be easy to build, but still protect humans from temperature changes and radiation.

The TSA's Quiet Skies program instructs teams of armed air marshals to track U.S. citizens through airports and aboard domestic flights.
Future Society

For TSA’s “Quiet Skies” Program, Air Marshals Followed Travelers’ Every Move

Welcome to the friendly skies...

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

Tesla Launches A $1,500 Surfboard, Sells out Almost Immediately

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

Google Glass Is Back, And May Have Finally Found A Place It Belongs

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

Cryptomining Malware Is Infecting Corporate Networks Worldwide

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

Dentists Are Now Using Tech to Monitor Patients’ Stress Levels

You might not dread your next cleaning.

AI Coaches Are Here To Unleash Your Inner LeBron
Artificial Intelligence

AI Coaches Are Here To Unleash Your Inner LeBron

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

23andMe is Teaming Up With A Pharma Company. You Shouldn’t Be Surprised.

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

Surprise! Virgin Galactic Just Did A Test Launch of Its SpaceShipTwo Spaceplane

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

Amazon Rekognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress to Mugshots

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

The “Biometric Mirror” Judges You The Way We’ve Taught It To: With Bias

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

The Rise Of An “Assassination Marketplace” Shows The Dark Side of Decentralized Networks

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

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

Trump’s Space Force Isn’t in Congress’ 2019 Spending Bill

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

Chinese Citizens Are Using Blockchain to Warn Each Other of Unsafe Vaccines

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