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Cancer

Earlier Cancer Detection Could Be Just an Artificial Mole Away

This fake mole isn't a fashion statement. It's a potentially life-saving medical innovation.

Robotics

IKEA Furniture Tests Your Relationship, Also Robots

Why put your relationship at risk when a robot could build the dang chair for you?

Future Society

The Digital Afterlife is Open for Business. But It Needs Rules.

Ethicists argue that our cyber selves should get the same postmortem dignity as our corpses.

Cryptocurrency

The World’s Biggest Porn Company Now Accepts a Cryptocurrency

So far, users aren't too turned on to the idea.

Tesla

Tesla May Have Broken The Law In Underreporting Worker Injuries

And what would the consequences be if it did?

Health & Medicine

Even Clinical Trials Can Be Fake Now — Here’s How to Spot One

The FDA is investigating a researcher who gave herpes vaccine injections without proper approval.

Future Society

Actually, Social Media Isn’t An Echo Chamber

It's time to stop pretending it is — and that which side we take is driven by logic in the first place.

Neuroscience and Brain

Dark Future: Here’s When We’ll Have the Black Mirror Tech That Lets Us Read Memories

The worst thing you've ever done? Yeah, they can see that.

Health & Medicine

This Company Wants to Store Your Stem Cells to Treat Future Diseases

It appears that we can use our stem cells from when we're young for future medical treatments.

Future Society

UK Police Identified A Drug Dealer By His Fingerprints In A WhatsApp Photo

It's probably a good reminder: those cameras always in our pockets are extremely powerful.

Off-World

Startup’s Crazy High-Res Satellite Can See You Pick Your Nose In Traffic

Yeah, it's THAT good.

Prosthetics and Devices

The Next Revolution of Sports Cheating: Rewriting Athletes’ Genetic Codes

How do we stop cheating if we can't detect it?

Data Privacy

Apps Are Illegally Stealing Children’s Privacy Data

A new tool could help crack down on them.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Tool Helps Law Enforcement Find Victims of Human Trafficking

The software trawls ads to find victims quickly.

Tesla

Musk Admits Automation At Tesla Factory Was a Bad Idea

Will Elon's all-nighters at the Tesla factory bring production up to speed?

Science & Energy

EV-Charging Roads Have Arrived. Here’s Why We Do (and Don’t) Need Them.

EVs can now power up while they're on the move.

Future Society

When Can Law Enforcement Look at Your Devices? A Definitive List

Seize, swipe, search?

Artificial Intelligence

“Cow FitBits” Won’t Make Cows Happier Because They’re Not Milk Robots

Do we really need AI in everything?

Brain

Scientists Who Stick Needles in Brains Curious About What Needles Do to Brains

Technology has caught up to what we actually know about the brain, leaving several questions.

Robotics

Lawmakers Want You to Be Able to Sue Robots

Lawmakers want to hold smart robots responsible if they do humans wrong.