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Data scientists who have already been tracking political violence around the world are retooling their efforts to predict American insurrection using AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Can computers predict flashpoints for political violence? The jury's still out.

The Open Source Afro Hair Library was designed to improve the way digital artists and video game developers portray 3D models of Black hairstyles.
Future Society

"All of us can be caretakers, all of us can be stewards."

A farmer in Turkey has purchased special VR headsets for his cows so they'll produce more milk and be less anxious. It seems to be working.
Virtual Reality

Shouldn't cows always be in green pastures?

One Michigan nuclear power plant detected a "possible fire," but turned its sirens off last year. It follows a history of concerning nuclear events.
Nuclear Fusion

What is wrong with Michigan's nuclear plants?

Geneticist Brian Hanley explained his life-extending experiments and why climate change will be his future cause of death if he lives to be 150 years old.
Future Society

He makes the future sound pretty bleak.

China has developed a laser that could be mounted on a satellite to enable high-speed communication, tracking, and identifying targets, South China Morning Post reports.
Off-World

"But a bigger version can be."

MIT researchers this week captured images of super-cold atoms moving from being governed by classic, to quantum, physics, forming quantum tornadoes.
Quantum Physics

We're not in Kansas anymore...

IBM is putting up Watson Health for sale once again. The buyer could potentially affect millions of patients and government healthcare strategies.
Prosthetics and Devices

It better not fall into the wrong hands...

To no one's surprise, a new study has found that many purported hangover "cures" are pretty much worthless.
RX and Medicine

"The surest way of preventing hangover symptoms is to abstain from alcohol."

Tesla's stock yo-yoing made CEO Elon Musk even richer — until it then made him $30 billion poorer.
Elon Musk

Don't get too excited — this is just another blip in the bizarreness of Elon's wealth.

It was just a month ago that the world was introduced to the bizarre cube on the moon — and just like that, it's gone.
Moon

This is what we get for getting our hopes up.

Two professors say the first interstellar travel may transport tiny microscopic organisms known as tardigrades, or water bears, through space.
Off-World

Is that really ethical?

The Boring Company's tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center is starting to experience traffic jams all on its own during this year's CES.
Elon Musk

Weren't the tunnels supposed to solve this problem?

Bitcoin was hit by a precipitous price drop on Wednesday following a draconian Internet crackdown in Kazakhstan, the second-largest mining hub in the world.
Bitcoin

Prices are now down 40 percent from November's high.

The International Space Station's about to get that much cooler now that NASA has approved a venture that will bring an art gallery/museum aboard. 
International Space Station

Yes, there's an NFT component — but it's not as wacky as you'd think.

In Europe, tens of thousands of empty planes are being flown due to an air traffic rule — while needlessly polluting the skies.
Climate Change

The situation is as terrible as it is avoidable.

It's not just you — everyone is having less sex, and fears about unwanted sex acts may be to blame.
Studies

People may be avoiding sex entirely out of fears of sexual assault.

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector
NFTs

"I have been hacked. All my apes are gone."

Infamous antivirus software Norton is being blasted for adding a cryptocurrency mining software called Norton Crypto to its Norton 360 suite.
Cryptocurrency

"It's disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide."

A drone carrying a defibrillator saved a 71-year-old Swedish man's life after he suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow in December.
Future Society

"If it wasn’t for the drone I probably wouldn’t be here."