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Green Energy: Good For The Planet, Bad For Fossil Fuel Workers
Energy

Green Energy: Good For The Planet, Bad For Fossil Fuel Workers

Campaign promises aside, coal's heyday is over. Policies can help ease the transition.

Grimes, Elon Musk, and the Supposedly Trauma-Inducing A.I. Theory That Brought Them Together
Elon Musk

Grimes, Elon Musk, and the Supposedly Trauma-Inducing A.I. Theory That Brought Them Together

It's the hot gossip from the Met Gala, and, yes, it does have to do with AI.

Wall Street is Officially Hip To Bitcoin Trading
Bitcoin

Wall Street is Officially Hip To Bitcoin Trading

Bitcoin is moving from the fringes of finance to the main event.

DNA Tests Can Take Some of the Guesswork out of Treating Depression
DNA

DNA Tests Can Take Some of the Guesswork out of Treating Depression

Finally, a better way than just trying drugs till patients find something that works.

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy
Privacy

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

Better digital security means science can progress without violating people's trust.

Everyone Is Flipping Out About Google’s AI Assistant That Just Booked A Haircut On The Phone
Google

Everyone Is Flipping Out About Google’s AI Assistant That Just Booked A Haircut On The Phone

Soon you might be able to make robo calls instead of just receiving them. Oh, and they'll actually be useful.

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Video Game Levels So Good That Even Other AI Thinks They’re Man-Made
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Video Game Levels So Good That Even Other AI Thinks They’re Man-Made

And yes, it will run DOOM.

Preview: The Ethereal Summit Is Coming for Brooklyn, and They Are Bringing Deepak Chopra with Them
Blockchain

Preview: The Ethereal Summit Is Coming for Brooklyn, and They Are Bringing Deepak Chopra with Them

It's gonna be a helluva time.

The Biggest Health Risk for Lunar and Martian Explorers: Tiny Dust
Off-World

The Biggest Health Risk for Lunar and Martian Explorers: Tiny Dust

No amount of vacuuming is going to help with this stuff.

Uber Gives Us The First Glimpse Of What It Wants Its Flying Taxi To Look Like
Advanced Transport

Uber Gives Us The First Glimpse Of What It Wants Its Flying Taxi To Look Like

One flying taxi to rule them all?

Elon Musk: These Are the 5 Most Important Problems We Need to Solve
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: These Are the 5 Most Important Problems We Need to Solve

"Stuff doesn't need to change the world just to be good."

Environmental Problems Go Hand In Hand With Social Injustice. North Carolina Wants to End That.
Environment

Environmental Problems Go Hand In Hand With Social Injustice. North Carolina Wants to End That.

These problems disproportionately affect minorities and the poor.

A New MIT Project Could Bring Driverless Cars to Rural Roads
Advanced Transport

A New MIT Project Could Bring Driverless Cars to Rural Roads

A system to let your autonomous car take the road less traveled.

Uber’s Self-Driving Car May Have “Decided” Not to Swerve To Prevent The Fatal Crash
Self-Driving Vehicles

Uber’s Self-Driving Car May Have “Decided” Not to Swerve To Prevent The Fatal Crash

If true, it's bad news for Uber, and autonomous driving.

Uber Plans To Launch Flying Taxis With Technology That Doesn’t Exist
Advanced Transport

Uber Plans To Launch Flying Taxis With Technology That Doesn’t Exist

Let's get those Ubers off the road and into the sky.

Criminals Are Now Using Swarms Of Small Drones To Befuddle Law Enforcement
Drones

Criminals Are Now Using Swarms Of Small Drones To Befuddle Law Enforcement

The regulations for consumer drones are coming, but they're not here yet.

Safe Injection Facilities Show Cities Are Willing To Treat The Real Causes of Addiction
Health & Medicine

Safe Injection Facilities Show Cities Are Willing To Treat The Real Causes of Addiction

America's "War on Drugs" has historically treated illegal drug use as a crime problem and not a public health problem.

Welsh Police Used Face Scanning Software That Incorrectly Flagged Thousands
Artificial Intelligence

Welsh Police Used Face Scanning Software That Incorrectly Flagged Thousands

In one day, 92 percent of all matches were false positives.

As “Smart Cities” Come Into Focus, California Laws Seek To Limit Surveillance Technology
Future Society

As “Smart Cities” Come Into Focus, California Laws Seek To Limit Surveillance Technology

Oakland is the latest city to give surveillance tech more oversight.

Yes! Futurism’s New App Is Here. Meet the Geniuses Behind It.
Future Society

Yes! Futurism’s New App Is Here. Meet the Geniuses Behind It.

Call me, app push me, if you want to reach me.