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Advanced Transport

Airbus’ Electric Flying Taxis Are Set to Take to the Skies Next Year

Once commercially available for use, it will travel along fixed routes at a top speed of 120 km/h (74.5 mph).

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Bitcoin

A Popular Payment App Now Lets Users Buy and Sell Bitcoin

Are bitcoin transactions between friends next?

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Tesla

Proof That Tesla’s Batteries Are Utterly Revolutionizing How We Power Our World

From Australia to efforts in Puerto Rico, Tesla batteries are hard at work.

A Global Collaboration to Create “Artificial Organisms” Just Went Live
Artificial Intelligence

A Global Collaboration to Create “Artificial Organisms” Just Went Live

"We cannot achieve True AI until we understand actual intelligence."

How Transgenic Species Could Help Fight the Effects of Climate Change
Climate Change

How Transgenic Species Could Help Fight the Effects of Climate Change

Many scientists believe that although we engineered the crisis, we can also engineer a solution.

UN: Artificial Intelligence Could Destabilize World Through Unemployment and War
Artificial Intelligence

UN: Artificial Intelligence Could Destabilize World Through Unemployment and War

A new United Nations watchdog center will monitor artificial intelligence and predict potential threats.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel is Releasing a Processor That’s Built for Neural Networks

This will revolutionize AI computing for a myriad of industries.

Google’s Machine Learning Software Has Learned to Replicate Itself
Google

Google’s Machine Learning Software Has Learned to Replicate Itself

And it's more powerful and efficient than anything humans are building.

You Can Now Buy and Ship a Home on Amazon
Future Society

You Can Now Buy and Ship a Home on Amazon

And it's rather affordable too.

Air-Breathing Battery Makes Renewable Power Viable for the Grid
Energy

Air-Breathing Battery Makes Renewable Power Viable for the Grid

The battery stores energy for months at about one-fifth of the price of existing technologies.

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Quantum Physics

Scientists Confirmed the Theory Behind the Quantum Networks of the Future

Quantum networks will be essential for data protection in the future.

Western Digital Hard Drives Will Provide Over 40TB of Storage by 2025
Science & Energy

Western Digital Hard Drives Will Provide Over 40TB of Storage by 2025

Recent developments in microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) enable the creation of larger hard drives.

Scientists Detect New Gravitational Waves from a Black Hole Collision
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect New Gravitational Waves from a Black Hole Collision

"With the next observing run planned for Fall 2018, we can expect such detections weekly or even more often."

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Space

China Has a Radical New Plan to Get Rockets — and Humans — to Space

Launching from ships near the equator or close to the atmosphere gets heavier rockets into space faster.

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Health & Medicine

A Chinese Province Is Sequencing One Million of Its Residents’ Genomes

The project is being advised by Harvard geneticist George Church.

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Quantum Physics

Antibiotics Dosed With Quantum Dots Are 1,000 Times Better at Killing Superbugs

As drug-resistant infections become a more serious threat, nanotechnology may present an answer.

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Medical

A New Medical Journal Modeled on Turbotax Could Help Doctors Save Lives

Giving doctors the ability to compare cases can save lives, but will the review process fall by the wayside?

New NASA Research Will Probe Inner Workings of Quantum Mechanics in Space
Science & Energy

New NASA Research Will Probe Inner Workings of Quantum Mechanics in Space

A zero-gravity environment gives scientists the perfect conditions to test quantum mysteries.

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Artificial Intelligence

Vladimir Putin: Country That Leads in AI Development “Will be the Ruler of the World”

Many working in the field see AI as a tool for making humanity better, while others foresee it as a harbinger of doom for humanity.

New Information About Alzheimer’s Disease Provides Hope for a Cure
Science & Energy

New Information About Alzheimer’s Disease Provides Hope for a Cure

The amyloid or tau debate is shifting.