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Whether it's to manage the world better than we do or give us new insight into how our own minds work, many experts agree we should make a human-level AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Why Should We Bother Building Human-Level AI? Five Experts Weigh In

Machines as smart as people could build a much better future.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk claimed that Tesla's cars will soon be able to "follow you like a pet" and take directions "like a big [remote controlled] car."
Tesla

Musk: You’ll Be Able to Remote Control Your Tesla Within 6 Weeks

But the CEO has a long history of missing deadlines.

By Jon Christian

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy
Science & Energy

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy

Don't worry, it's only devouring our galaxy slowly.

By Kristin Houser

With a spinal implant boosting paralyzed people's brains' commands, they were able to walk short distances for the first time since their injuries.
Health & Medicine

A Spinal Implant Is Helping Paralyzed People Walk Again

Early test runs show promising results, but the device isn’t a cure-all.

By Dan Robitzski

Federal research into universal basic income shows that regular cash payments don't reduce employment at all. In fact, it seems to help.
Universal Basic Income

A New Study Shows Basic Income Doesn’t Deter People From Working

We have evidence that UBI truly helps, but it won’t solve our problems.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is hard at work on a "factory" that'd let future Mars missions — or even colonists — extract rocket fuel from Martian soil.
NASA

NASA Scientists Think They Can Extract Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil

Promising NASA research could make Mars missions far more realistic.

By Jon Christian

Lime Recalled Thousands of Scooters Because They Were Catching Fire
Advanced Transport

Lime Recalled Thousands of Scooters Because They Were Catching Fire

Because blocking sidewalks wasn't annoying enough.

By Victor Tangermann

A slew of tech billionaires, including Bill Gates and Richard Branson, are determined to make cost-effective nuclear fusion a reality.
Science & Energy

Tech Billionaires Are Pouring Money Into Fusion Research

Branson, Bezos, and Gates are investing big in fusion companies.

By Kristin Houser

A vaping detection system with AI-powered sensors is alerting officials in the U.S. and Canada to the signs of vaping in school bathrooms.
Artificial Intelligence

Schools Are Installing Bathroom Surveillance Systems to Bust Vapers

They're using AI to crack down on teen vaping.

By Kristin Houser

What Astronauts’ Tweets Could Tell Scientists About the Psychology of Space Travel
Off-World

What Astronauts’ Tweets Could Tell Scientists About the Psychology of Space Travel

If you thought Twitter was bumming you out here on Earth, try tweeting from space.

By Jon Christian

Waymo is the first company to receive a permit to test truly driverless cars — autonomous vehicles without a safety driver — on California roads.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Will No Longer Have Safety Drivers

Self-driving cars will roam California roads without their "training wheels."

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Ghent University have figured out a way to store data in a powder, and it could help us move away from magnetic storage solutions.
Chemistry

We Can Now Store Data in the Form of a Powder

It could be the storage medium of the future.

By Kristin Houser

MIT wants to allow internet users to give commands to a real-life hired actor on Halloween. Terrible idea or fascinating social experiment?
Virtual Reality

MIT Will Let You Control a Real-Life Actor By Giving Them Commands

The internet can tell them what to do — within limits.

By Victor Tangermann

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful

Scary movie soundtracks are better left to the human composers.

By Victor Tangermann

JD.com's 40,000-square-meter automated warehouse is run completely by robots. The only human employs simply service the bots.
Future Society

Take a Look at the World’s First Fully Automated Warehouse

The only human employees simply service the robots.

By Kristin Houser

Veloce, a new astronomical tool that can spot Earth-sized planets tightly orbiting dim stars, was just installed in an Australian observatory.
Exoplanets

This Upgraded Telescope Hunts Exoplanets Orbiting Dim Stars

Astronomers can find more potentially-habitable planets than ever before.

By Dan Robitzski

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.
Artificial Intelligence

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.

Before giving tech companies free rein, the government should install some safeguards.

By Dan Robitzski

An eye scan that provides detailed images of the retina and blood vessels could help us detect Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear.
Health & Medicine

An Eye Scan Could Detect Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms Appear

We've been looking for a cheap, non-invasive screening method. This could be it.

By Kristin Houser

NASA announced Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth and looking for exoplanets since 2009, ran out of fuel. RIP.
NASA

NASA: Kepler Space Telescope is Out of Fuel

So ends the telescope’s planet-seeking mission.

By Dan Robitzski

A new type of battery might give small planes enough of a boost to take off and complete short-range flights without using any fossil fuels.
Advanced Transport

New Battery Tech Could Power a Flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Electric passenger planes could finally be practical.

By Dan Robitzski