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Dubai Police have officially started training its officers how to operate Hoversurf's hoverbikes. But will they actually be useful?
Artificial Intelligence

Dubai Police Are Training Officers to Fly Hoverbikes

Bad guys beware.

Swiss company Energy Vault came up with an elegant solution to storing energy: hoisting giant bricks over 300 feet in the air.
Energy

Giant Hanging Bricks Could Store Energy Better Than Batteries

And the environmental impact is minimal.

New Self-Repairing Material Could Let You Key Your Car Just for Fun
Science & Energy

New Self-Repairing Material Could Let You Key Your Car Just for Fun

A new material regrows itself with air and sunlight by hijacking a plant's photosynthetic abilities.

Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, issued a dire warning of a future where facial recognition tech helps the government track civilians. He's helping it.
Future Society

Microsoft President Warns Of “1984” Facial Recognition Future

"The world is on the threshold of technology that would give a government the ability to follow anyone anywhere."

Chinese state media agency Xinhua just revealed the world's first "AI anchor." But it's not going to fool anybody.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet The World’s First AI News Anchor

Impressive, but it's not going to fool anybody.

After four years of study, NASA concluded that 3D printing works just as well in space as it does on Earth. Deep space missions may be in the future.
NASA

NASA: Objects 3D Printed in Space Perform Well Enough to Support Missions

3D printers working in microgravity didn’t work any worse than on the ground.

Roughly half the Arctic ice melt that's occurred over the past 37 years is due to natural variables, according to a new study.
Climate Change

Humans Aren’t Solely to Blame for Arctic Ice Melt, Says Report

Nature has played a major role, too.

This Week in Tech: Oct 13 – Oct 20
Artificial Intelligence

This Week in Tech: Oct 13 – Oct 20

Uber traffic, blinders for humans, cybersec trucks, and more.

This Week in Science: Oct 13 – Oct 20
Science & Energy

This Week in Science: Oct 13 – Oct 20

Imitation smoked salmon, robot lecturers, legalized weed, and more.

This Week in Science: Oct 27 – Nov 2
Science & Energy

This Week in Science: Oct 27 – Nov 2

Giant black holes, fusion research, messages to aliens, and more

This Week in Tech: Oct 27 – Nov 2
Science & Energy

This Week in Tech: Oct 27 – Nov 2

Robot security guards, hoverbikes, artificial moons, and more.

How Data Transparency Is Helping Us Build Future Cities
Data Privacy

How Data Transparency Is Helping Us Build Future Cities

What do you do when mold from your apartment makes you sick? This entrepreneur created an app.

Microsoft just created a new AI system that can scan a news column and pull out the most important facts for quicker reading.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s New Neural Network Summarizes the News — Erratically

News anchor AI will save us all.

Researchers have created a bioreactor device that helps regrow limbs on frogs when worn for just 24 hours post-amputation.
Science & Energy

A Wearable Device Helped Frogs Regrow Their Amputated Limbs

The limbs the frogs regrew were more like their original ones.

A new kind of prosthetic limb gives people the control of the most sophisticated prostheses out there, but is also easily-interchangeable.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Prosthetic Limbs are More Interchangeable Than Ever

“We think of it like a USB connector from the body.”

A new online tool, "AI Portraits" takes a photo of your face and uses artificial intelligence to try and generate a realistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

This Website Will Generate an AI Portrait of You

The algorithm reconstructs your face based on how it sees you.

NASA posted a video to its Commercial Crew Twitter account of astronauts wearing SpaceX spacesuits while inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Put SpaceX Spacesuits to the Test

NASA's Commercial Crew program is getting closer to liftoff.

When Galaxies Merge, The Black Holes In Their Hearts Fuse Together
Science & Energy

When Galaxies Merge, The Black Holes In Their Hearts Fuse Together

Yeah, it sounds goth, but it could explain the enormous size of certain black holes.

Researchers created bionic mushrooms that could keep electricity-generating cyanobacteria alive longer than other surfaces.
Energy

We Can Now Generate Electricity From “Bionic Mushrooms”

The fungi could finally let us harness the power of cyanobacteria.

Five Fun Tips To Help Delay Climate Catastrophe
Climate Change

Five Fun Tips To Help Delay Climate Catastrophe

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