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Google is Making an Artificial Intelligence Capable of Human-Level Speech
Soon, we may be talking about life, the universe, and everything with...a chatbot?

These Fully Autonomous Self-Driving Taxis Are Set to Hit The Road in Just 2 Years
The driverless taxi is (almost) here.

A New Uber Competitor Just Raised $16 million in Funding For Complete Autonomous Taxis
The company is using to fund to beat its coming deadline in two years.

New Electronic Material Can Heal Itself, Works Even After It’s Cut In Half
Just like a living thing, this material can heal itself after injury.

Even the South Pole Wasn’t Safe From the Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs, Study Finds
A new study finds that even the Poles weren't safe when the huge asteroid hit Earth.

Skyn: The New Wearable That Could Saves Lives By Monitoring Blood Alcohol Level
Keep a continuous track of your blood alcohol content with this new wearable biosensor.

EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020
Free knowledge for all. This is utterly revolutionary.

Airbus Makes World’s First Functional 3D Printed Motorcycle (and it’s €50,000)
This 3D printed motorcycle is smaller, lighter, leaner, and *very* expensive.

Watch Out, Doc. An AI is Going to Start Interpreting X-Rays
Tomorrow, your X-rays may be going to...an AI?

Australia to Field Test “Rancher Robot” that Monitors Animal Health and Well-Being
Australian ranchers are going to be farming...robots?

Real Life Yale Experiment Reveals Schrödinger’s Cat Can Be in 2 Boxes at Once
Turns out, the cat is alive and dead and in two places at once. And it could revolutionize quantum computing.

Experts Asserts That, Soon, The Price of Solar Power Will Rival That of Coal
It seems that solar power is becoming truly viable.

Apple Supplier Just Cut 60,000 Jobs. Replaces Factory Workers With Robots
Because of robots, a factory with 110,000 employees just cut their number of workers to 50,000.

Physicists Think They Might Have Just Detected a Fifth Force of Nature
New evidence suggested that there could be a fifth fundamental force.

Photons as Passwords: New Security System Can Match Quantum Computers
The future of encryption rest in harnessing the seemingly unconquerable world of quantum mechanics.

Physicists Made a ‘Black Hole’ in a Lab That May Finally Prove Hawking Radiation Exists
Stephen Hawking could finally get his Nobel prize.

Virtual Reality Could Be Used to “Transport” Jurors to a Crime Scene
New technology in the courtroom? Virtual Reality could be the key to giving jurors better insight into cases.

Thanks to Time Dilation, Earth’s Core is 2.5 Years Younger Than its Surface
Time slows near massive objects, and that has a rather strange impact on our planet.