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A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have created a "wearable muscles" exosuit that's designed to give its wearer serious strength boost.
Prosthetics and Devices

It's compact enough to fit underneath a shirt.

Scientists at UC Riverside and the University of Delaware say they convinced food-bearing plants to grow in total darkness with acetate.
Science & Energy

That could really come in handy.

Police in China are putting surveillance on the future with footage, data and patterns of residents and reporting troublemakers to the government.
Future Society

It's giving 1984.

Snoop Dogg and Eminem released a new music video for "D 2 the LBC" featured the rappers as Bored Ape Yacht Club apes based on NFTs they own.
Blockchain

Finally, apes that aren't boring af.

ESA scientists had to raise the Swarm constellation satellites, which measure Earth's magnetic field, because they were sinking in chaotic space weather.
Off-World

Space weather is weird.

A pilot readying to land a plane at the giant, uber busy Los Angeles International Airport spotted someone flying a jetpack just 15 miles away from LAX.
Advanced Transport

Not the smartest move.

Bored Ape's Bored and Hungry restaurant in Los Angeles has gone back to accepting good old fashioned US dollars as its sole currency for ape-themed food.
Blockchain

"As far as buying food and all that, maybe not."

Moon dirt that was digested and recovered from cockroach carcasses probably isn't going to a new home, after all. NASA wants RR Auction to halt its sale.
Future Society

"No person has permission to keep them."

It's definitely not a bird, but it is sort of a plane — it's the non-existent but admittedly very cool Sky Cruise, a fantastical nuclear-powered sky hotel.
Nuclear Fusion

"I bet I still end up next to someone else's screaming three year old for the entire trip."

A stranded oil tanker off the coast of Yemen could make the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill look like child's play. It stores 1 million gallons of oil.
Pollution

Time's running out.

A team of Cambridge scientists say dyslexia encourages creativity and innovation and could lead to humanity's success as we evolve.
Studies

"The deficit-centered view of dyslexia isn’t telling the whole story."

Seattle-based startup Zap Energy also says that its approach to fusion energy is far simpler and cheaper tan other approaches.
Energy

Critics say it's "propaganda," too good to be true. Who do we believe?

Tesla brought back its Enhanced Autopilot feature this week for $6,000. Full Self Driving mode now only includes one additional feature and costs $12,000.
Future Society

"I’m not convinced $6k is worth it."

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon
Moon

One more crater!

For the first time, SpaceX has managed to lift and place its Super Heavy rocket booster onto its launch pad using its "chopsticks"-wielding launch tower.
SpaceX

It finally did the thing!

Close those tabs! Scientists in China have created a prototype AI device that knows when a man is watching porn — by "reading his mind."
Artificial Intelligence

Talk about an invasion of privacy!

18-year-old Ricky da Luz, for instance, figured out people go absolutely hog wild over physical representations of their Bored Ape NFTs.
Blockchain

This 18-year-old is putting the fun in non-fungible.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lamented that global supply chain issues and EV battery woes are causing the company's new Gigafactories to bleed cash — fast.
Elon Musk

"It should be like a giant roaring sound which is the sound of money on fire."

The US Supreme Court has officially overturned Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that will have devastating effects for roughly 40 million women and girls.
Developments

Unconscionable.

AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."
Google

"It’s a person. Any person has the ability to escape the control of other people."