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Uber Announces Flying Taxi Research Center In France
Advanced Transport

The project lines up with President Macron's dreams for the country—assuming it succeeds.

Tesla Gets Green Light To Create The World’s Largest Virtual Solar Plant In South Australia
Tesla

The newly-elected government agreed to honor the existing agreement.

Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals
Robotics

The self-organized movement of the little scamps gives insight into how microbes navigate.

A Simple Beam of Light Could Catch Zika-Infected Mosquitoes
Health & Medicine

The diagnostic technique is way faster than most tools we have right now.

Facebook Wants To Protect Your Nudes By Storing them as a “Digital Fingerprint”
Future Society

The company would automatically delete compromising images if someone else uploaded them.

If DARPA Wants To Stop Deepfakes, They Should Talk To Facebook And Google
Google

The two tech giants’ AI research helps make deceptive media possible.

Smart Prosthetic Devices Create Natural Motion by Predicting Movement
Prosthetics and Devices

No more hours repeating the same motions over and over.

Google’s Call-Making AI Has Some Competition From Microsoft
Google

And Microsoft's bot is already out in the world.

Gene-Editing Technology Is About To Affect Your Shopping Cart
Future Society

Newly-engineered, increased-yield rice would be allowed under updated USDA rules.

Police Surveillance Is Getting a Helping Hand from…Amazon!
Future Society

Rekognition allows police to keep track of elected officials, immigrants, and everyone else.

Robots Shooting Jets Of Pesticides Could Cut Back On How Much Weedkiller We Use
Robotics

The robots are more precise than most current weed-killing methods.

Brain Scans Of Stressed Pilots Uncover A Big Problem With How We Do Science
Biology

Brain activity in the lab was very different from activity while in a real plane.

Watch These Animal-Inspired Robots Find Their Footing
Robotics

Who says bots can't be adorable?

Smartphone Tech Can Help Stop Food Poisoning Before It Happens
Food

Current testing procedures take days. This is almost instant.

New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full Of Holes
Robotics

Droplets of metallic liquid can form new circuits on the fly.

There’s New Evidence for the Mysterious “Planet Nine”
Science & Energy

A distant, super-dense planet would explain some of our solar system’s weird quirks.

EVs Can’t Change the World Until We Change How We Sell Them
Electric Vehicles

Misinformed, dismissive dealers simply aren't interested in selling you an EV.

This All-Terrain Robot “Teaches” Itself to Walk in a Revolutionary Way
Robotics

DyRET shows just how far evolutionary robotics has come.

Tesla Is Adding Expensive Features to Model 3 After Denying Consumer Reports’ Bad Review
Tesla

Elon Musk said selling the "affordable" Model 3 as is would "...cause Tesla to lose money & die."

Gamers Built a “Digital Museum” That Unlocked New Secrets of the Brain
Science & Energy

Need something done fast? Make a game of it.