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Energy

Everyone in the World Should Be Taxed on Their Energy Footprint

The elite should have to pay for their lifestyle.

Artificial Intelligence

A Swarm Intelligence Correctly Predicted TIME’s Person of the Year

This is the second year in a row the swarm intelligence has correctly called the TIME winner.

Treatments

The Next Anti-Aging Treatment? Artificial Ovaries

Engineered ovaries could sidestep the issues associated with long-term reliance on hormone replacement drugs.

Robotics

San Francisco Approves Tight Regulations on Delivery Robots

Companies will be limited to a fleet of three robots that travel slower than three miles per hour.

Climate Change

The UK Government Just Gave a Massive Boost to the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

Two new "centers of excellence" will be built.

Exobiology

This Discovery Could Change the Way We Search for Alien Life

These extremophiles can survive on air alone.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Confirms Tesla is Working on Custom Hardware for Autopilot

Musk purportedly noted that custom chips could "give 10x the power at a tenth of the cost."

Artificial Intelligence

An AI That Makes Fake Videos May Facilitate the End of Reality as We Know It

It'll make you question every video you see.

Pollution

China Is Officially Enacting a Plastic Waste Import Ban

We'll need to find somewhere else to recycle our plastic.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Discover a Way to Prevent Stem Cell Loss and Improve Tissue Regeneration

"We are excited to have a means of rescuing stem cells, boosting their ability to maintain healthy tissue."

Blockchain

Bank of America Wins Patent for Crypto Exchange System

This would make cryptocurrency conversion simpler and easier.

Artificial Intelligence

Advancements in AI Are Rewriting Our Entire Economy

Instead of stealing jobs, AI could prove "productivity enhancing" for human-run businesses.

Energy

Europe’s Power Suppliers Plan to Go Carbon-Neutral “Well Before” 2050

Eurelectric represents 3,500 power companies across the continent.

Health & Medicine

Doctors Discard Viable Organs as Patients Die on Waiting Lists

82 percent of people on the national transplant waiting list need a kidney.

Robots and Machines

Net Neutrality a Concern? Companies Are Already Denying You Access to Content

Google and Amazon need to do better.

Climate Change

California Is Working to Ban Gas-Powered Cars by 2040

"Until you set a deadline, nothing gets done."

Health & Medicine

A New CRISPR Technique Reverses Diseases in Mice

And it does so without cutting DNA.

Brain

New Gene Therapy Could Regenerate Brain Tissue, Fix Neurological Diseases

Genetic modification can repopulate the brain's supply of immune cells.

Future Society

Edible Selfies? Five Innovations Disrupting How and What We Eat

Foodies and techies unite.

Climate Change

The IPCC May Have Underestimated Future Warming Trends

A new study says the more-severe climate model predictions could be the most accurate.