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Water.io is working on "smart caps" that tell you whether you're hydrating enough or taking all your pills, and even put in orders when you're running low.
Internet Of Things

In the Future, Even Your Dish Detergent Will be Spying on You

These tiny sensors keep track of how much is left in bottles. They could get kinda annoying.

Tokyo-based robotics company Preferred Networks demonstrated its mostly effective but super slow tidying robots at a Japanese convention.
Robotics

These Tidying Robots Clean Up Toys, Put Roomba to Shame

Hate clutter? This robot can help you out.

A new Microsoft patent for a circular input system could change how we type in virtual reality, making the process far more intuitive.
Virtual Reality

Typing in VR Sucks. Microsoft Has an Idea to Make It Better.

The company has patented a new kind of virtual keyboard.

Made of Mars says it's developing the technology to convert Martian minerals into materials we can use to "build the space civilization of tomorrow."  
Mars

Here’s How We’ll Build Things Using Mars’ Natural Resources

One startup is learning to manufacture goods out of raw materials on the Red Planet.

Waymo's newly published AV safety guidelines tell law enforcement officials and first responders how they should deal with crashed AVs.
Self-Driving Vehicles

This Guide Could Dictate How Cops Handle Autonomous Car Crashes

Waymo is helping shape the future of AV safety.

The USDA has lifted regulations on growing a genetically modified cotton plant with edible cottonseeds, and it could eventually help feed the world.
Science & Energy

US Farmers Can Now Grow Edible Cotton

But you're not allowed to eat it. Yet.

Glimpse: Virtual Reality For The Masses Might Solve The Problems Social Media Started
Virtual Reality

Glimpse: Virtual Reality For The Masses Might Solve The Problems Social Media Started

Interacting with others in virtual reality could help us have interactions similar to those we have in the real world.

These ever-so-edgy novelists are using artificial intelligence to spit out new books. We're over it, to be perfectly honest.
Artificial Intelligence

Novelists Have a Boring New Gimmick: Writing Dull Books With AI

Get over yourselves, authors!

The Chinese city of Chengdu plans to launch an artificial moon into the sky to provide light during the night, eliminated the need for streetlights.
Moon

A Chinese City Plans to Replace Its Streetlights With an Artificial Moon

The move could save the city $2.8 billion dollars over five years.

When it shipped the first Apple Watch with a heart rate monitor, the tech giant didn't realize the impact it could have on users' heart health.
Health & Medicine

Big Tech Companies Want to Hack Your Heart Health

Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet all want to heal your heart.

Get Ready for Pills Programmed to Respond to Your Cells’ Individual Needs
Health & Medicine

Get Ready for Pills Programmed to Respond to Your Cells’ Individual Needs

New research uses strands of DNA to create logic gates.

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm

Baidu will join Apple, Google, and others in shaping the future of AI.

How to Generate (Almost) Anything is collaborating with their custom AI systems to bring bizarre foods, clothes, and art into the real world.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Researchers Bringing Bizarre AI Creations to Life

The MIT group calls itself "How to Generate (Almost) Anything," and it wants to make AI available to the masses.

Members of the military are using Facebook to incite violence and fuel hatred against a Muslim ethic group in the Asian nation of Myanmar.
Future Society

Fake Facebook Pages Spurred Genocide in Myanmar

Facebook is the 21st century propaganda machine.

A Chinese-made robot can automatically zap mosquitos to stop the spread of disease. It's like a Roomba meets the Terminator.
Robotics

A Toy-Sized, Laser-Wielding Robot Is Here to Kill Mosquitoes

Let's hope its aim is good.

In 2017, Bina48 became the first AI-powered robot to complete a college-level course, and now, it's the first to co-teach one.
Artificial Intelligence

A Humanoid Robot Gave a Lecture in a West Point Philosophy Course

"The interesting part was that [the cadets] were taking notes.”

Canada legalizing weed could be an opportunity for medical researchers who believe the cannabis plant could hold the key to promising new treatments.
Health & Medicine

Canada Legalized Weed, and It Could Be a Huge Opportunity for Scientists

The United States risks brain drain if it doesn't follow suit.

Panasonic’s Horse-Style Blinders for Humans Are Like a Dystopian Cubicle For Your Face
Prosthetics and Devices

Panasonic’s Horse-Style Blinders for Humans Are Like a Dystopian Cubicle For Your Face

We'd rather work from home.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found a way to predict if a person was going to be depressed by analyzing their Facebook data.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Tell if You’re Depressed by Reading Your Facebook Posts

Would you let psychologists read your entire Facebook history?

This Electric Chewing Gum Never Runs out of Flavor
Virtual Reality

This Electric Chewing Gum Never Runs out of Flavor

And it could foreshadow the future of VR.