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Tesla

Insurance Companies Are Now Offering Discounts if You Let Your Tesla Drive Itself

Direct Line has announced a 5 percent discount for drivers who use Autopilot.

Energy

An Amino Acid in Plant Waste Offers Unexpected Energy Potential

Known as glycine, it can generate enough electricity to power smartphones and electronics found in cars.

Google

Google Released an AI That Analyzes Your Genome

And it may save your life.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial “Swarm Intelligence” Says Vladimir Putin Will be TIME’s Person of the Year

Swarm AI incorporates human values, emotions, sensibilities, and interests into the answers that it generates.

Off-World

These Are Real Images of a Star Going Supernova

This star exploded in a truly unique way.

Advanced Transport

China Has Launched the World’s First All-Electric Cargo Ship

Ironically, it's going to be hauling coal.

Health & Medicine

Inhibiting One Enzyme May Allow Us to Extend the Human Lifespan

Inhibiting the enzyme in yeast cells, flies, and worms extended their lives by an average of 10 percent.

Science & Energy

Uranium Breakthrough May Pave the Way for Entirely New Materials

It could replace plastic.

Bitcoin

A New App Feature Lets You Pay Your Rent Using Crypto

Crypto is speeding down the path to mainstream acceptance.

Robots and Machines

Samsung’s New Phones Might Literally Read the Palm of Your Hand

Move over, palm readers.

Cancer

A New Treatment Fights Endometrial Cancer With Nanoparticles

Every year, roughly 6,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with type II endometrial cancer.

Artificial Intelligence

A New Black Metal Album Was Just Published — and It Wasn’t Made by a Human

"Coditany of Timeness" proves that artificial intelligence can produce a truly brutal album.

Physics

Scientists Experimentally Demonstrate the “Reversal of the Arrow of Time”

They've found an exception to the second law of thermodynamics.

Health & Medicine

Artificial Organs: We’re Entering an Era Where Transplants Are Obsolete

"I think within ten years we won't see any more heart transplants."

Off-World

Voyager 1 Just Fired Its Thrusters for the First Time in 37 Years

They'll extend the mission by another 2 to 3 years.

Blockchain

Venezuela is Creating a Digital Currency to End Their Financial Crisis

The petro is being billed as the solution to the country's failing economy.

Energy

Rippling Graphene Sheets May Be the Key to Clean, Unlimited Energy

The next generation of smart devices could be powered by nano-scale power generators.

Falcon

Elon Musk Loves the Idea of His Tesla Roadster Being the Falcon Heavy’s First Mars Payload

A source told Futurism that “the Roadster payload is real" — but we'll believe it when we see it.

Cancer

Breakthrough Cancer Test Identifies Which of 15 Drugs Most Likely to Eradicate Tumors

The device detects 324 genetic mutations in tumors with an accuracy of about 94.6 percent.

Exobiology

A Russian Billionaire, Not NASA, May Uncover Alien Life

It could take NASA more than a decade to send a mission to Enceladus.