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A Quantum Principle Could Change Wireless Charging Technology Forever
Quantum Physics

A Quantum Principle Could Change Wireless Charging Technology Forever

First, a LED bulb. Next, your electric car?

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Artificial Intelligence

IBM is Challenging Congress’s Apocalyptic Perceptions of AI

The technological goliath will lobby congress later this week, encouraging them to look at the positives

Elon Musk: The World’s Population is Accelerating Towards Collapse
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: The World’s Population is Accelerating Towards Collapse

Thus far, any proposed solution to overcrowding on Earth has proven to be a knotty ethical problem.

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Artificial Intelligence

These Technologies Are Critical to Today’s Businesses, According to Survey

AI ranks highest in terms of influence in survey of business leaders.

Study Finds That Human Ethics Could Be Easily Programmed Into Driverless Cars
Self-Driving Vehicles

Study Finds That Human Ethics Could Be Easily Programmed Into Driverless Cars

We can program cars to drive like we do, but should we?

France Just Announced Radical Changes to the Country’s Climate Policy
Climate Change

France Just Announced Radical Changes to the Country’s Climate Policy

The newly elected French government announced a series of ambitious measures to decrease reliance on fossil fuels, promote sustainability, and support the environment.

Stephen Hawking: “I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth”
Off-World

Stephen Hawking: “I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth”

Hawking suggests we should start looking at real estate elsewhere in the universe — but first, we have to go back to the moon.

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Falcon

SpaceX Just Successfully Launched the Third Falcon 9 in Less Than Two Weeks

This was the quickest succession of launches and one of the heaviest payloads ever for SpaceX.

Solar Power is Saving Dollars — and Lives
Solar Power

Solar Power is Saving Dollars — and Lives

There is only one way forward: the replacement of fossil fuels.

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?
Off-World

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?

Synthetic, Microscopic Fingerprints Turn Tiny Plastic Particles Into Security Keys
Science & Energy

Synthetic, Microscopic Fingerprints Turn Tiny Plastic Particles Into Security Keys

Even our personal belongings could have their own secure prints.

Scientists Want to Make This Medical Device From a Classic Sci-Fi Show a Reality
Medical

Scientists Want to Make This Medical Device From a Classic Sci-Fi Show a Reality

The Star Trek tricorder is closer than you think.

See Space Without the Space
From Quarks to Quasars

See Space Without the Space

When it come down to solid surface, Earth dominates the solar system.

New Quantum Technology Lets You Use Your Phone to Identify Counterfeit Goods
Physics

New Quantum Technology Lets You Use Your Phone to Identify Counterfeit Goods

Here's to a future without fakes.

Volvo Becomes the First Premium Car Maker to Go All Electric
Science & Energy

Volvo Becomes the First Premium Car Maker to Go All Electric

It's an electrifying and bold step forward.

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Quantum Computing

Two Students Just Broke a Quantum Computing World Record

This puts us one step closer to quantum supremacy.

NASA to Test Nuclear Reactor Designed to Power Future Mars Colony
Mars

NASA to Test Nuclear Reactor Designed to Power Future Mars Colony

This person-sized reactor could power the first Martian colony.

Mark Zuckerberg: The U.S. Should Learn From This State’s Basic Income Program
Universal Basic Income

Mark Zuckerberg: The U.S. Should Learn From This State’s Basic Income Program

The success of Alaska’s program "may be a lesson for the rest of the country as well."

India Will Be the Second Country in the World To Use a Novel Nuclear Technology
Nuclear Fusion

India Will Be the Second Country in the World To Use a Novel Nuclear Technology

Near-limitless energy is coming to India.

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Advanced Transport

Owners of China’s Traffic Hopping Bus Project Arrested

This potential traffic solution may have been a hoax, but there are other transport innovations coming down the road.