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Shoot magic energy lasers out of your fingers with augmented reality experiment that game enthusiast and HoloForge Interactive CTO Olivier Goguel created.
Artificial Intelligence

Awesome AR Demo Lets You Shoot Magic With Your Fingers

Who DOESN'T want magic laser hands!?

Union Pacific purchased 20 battery-powered locomotives for use in rail yards while other battery-powered train cars are getting to work.
Advanced Transport

Major Railroad Buys 20 Battery Powered Locomotives for Its Trains

That's a big battery!

A new study details how researchers have used electrical implants connected to a smartphone app to help Michel Roccati walk again after a spinal injury.
Prosthetics and Devices

Spine Implants Allow Paralyzed Man to Control Legs Using App

Whoa.

AI-generated images have always been creepy, but one artist's neural network-guided interpretation of BuzzFeed headlines takes it to a whole new dimension.
Artificial Intelligence

Mad Scientist Forces AI to Make Horrific Pictures Out of BuzzFeed Headlines

An AI Was Force-Fed BuzzFeed's Meme-Worthy Headlines and Here's What Happened

After accruing even more dust during a recent storm, NASA scientists believe that the InSight Mars lander may finally be on its last legs. 
Mars

NASA’s Mars Lander Believed to Be Dying After Furious Dust Storm

Oh no!

Swedish musician and AI enthusiast Supercomposite used the Looking Glass AI to create hundreds of creepy tarot cards and has been sharing them on Twitter.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Generates Haunting New Tarot Cards

Where are their faces!?

Reserachers used a spinal cord implant in mice to help them walk again after being paralyzed long-term. They hope for human clinical trials.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Heal Paralyzed Mice With Spinal Cord Implants

"If this works in humans, and we believe that it will, it can offer all paralyzed people hope that they may walk again."

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak has announced that he has personally invested in Synchron, a rival brain-computer interface startup.
Elon Musk

Neuralink Cofounder Invests in Rival That’s Beaten Elon Musk to Human Trials

It’s yet another rival company he’s supporting.

People in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico got a lightshow of a lifetime over the weekend when a spectacular fireball streaked across the sky as it fell to Earth. 
Future Society

Video Appears to Show SpaceX Rocket Disintegrating in Epic Fireball

It's spectacular.

NASA just approved a SpaceX project to launch its first fully-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.  
NASA

NASA Officially Approves First SpaceX Tourists to Visit Space Station

It's happening!

A new study by NewClimate Institute found that 25 large corporations that promised to fight climate change are doing a laughably bad job at it.
Climate Change

Surprise! Companies That Promised to Hit Net-Zero Emissions Are Failing Miserably

"We were frankly surprised and disappointed at the overall integrity of the companies’ claims."

The 27 most expensive recorded NFT sales in January amounted to $1.3 billion — but it came from just two crypto wallets trading with each other.
Cryptocurrency

Evidence Is Piling Up That a Huge Number of NFT Sales Are Fake

People keep buying their own NFTs — and driving up the price while doing so.

Pam Harght of Boston noticed and essentially rescued a sinking boat named Bing Bing during a work Zoom meeting last week.
Future Society

Woman Notices Sinking Boat During Zoom Call, Saves Crew

"They didn’t have much time left."

Renowned public speaker and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway ripped Meta and Mark Zuckerberg in an interview after stock prices fell drastically.
Metaverse

Famous Marketing Professor Calls Facebook’s Metaverse a “Flaming Bag of S**t”

Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

Exit International, a non-profit dedicated to assisted suicide advocacy, has developed a 3D-printed suicide capsule dubbed Sarco.
Prosthetics and Devices

Assisted-Suicide Chamber Approved by Authorities in Switzerland

The chamber allows patients to kill themselves at the press of a button.

Climate change and variability created a need for the first 100 percent fake manmade snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Climate Change

All the Snow at the Beijing Winter Olympics Is Artificially Made

Okay, that's pretty dark.

The identities of the creators of the wildly successful NFT project known as the Bored Ape Yacht Club have seemingly been revealed.
NFTs

Creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Reportedly Doxxed

Are they who you expected?

NFT creators are using wash trading to falsely inflate the prices on their JPGs every day according to crypto market transparency publication Chainanalysis.
Cryptocurrency

NFT Scammers Are Using a Sneaky Trick to Make Their JPGs Seem Like They’re Worth a Fortune

That's GOT to be illegal...

NASA says that as the James Webb Space Telescope begins its alignment process the team saw the first photons of starlight it has detected.
James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope Just Detected Its First Signal

We're watching the future unfold in real time.

Air conditioning needs will likely outpace the US's energy capacity because of climate change by the early 2030s according to a new study in Earth's Future.
Climate Change

Climate Change Air Conditioning Spike Will Cause Widespread Blackouts, Scientists Warn

We're gonna burn up if it isn't fixed.