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If users aren't comfortable with the fact that iRobot's Roomba i7+ stores a map of their floor plan in the cloud, they can opt for the e5.
Robots and Machines

Today in Dystopia: This Roomba “Remembers” a Map of Your House

But the company behind the device is making a version for the luddites among us.

El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele has announced the country's plans to build the world's first fully bitcoin bonds-backed "Bitcoin City."
Bitcoin

El Salvador President Announces “Bitcoin City” Tax Haven

"This is going to make El Salvador the financial center of the world."

"If JPM doesn’t withdraw their lawsuit, I will give them a one star review on Yelp," Tesla CEO Elon Musk told The Wall Street Journal.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Threatens Bank With “One Star Review on Yelp” Unless They Drop Lawsuit

"This is my final warning!"

Researchers are developing a lifesaving automatic Narcan injector that may bring harm reduction into the world of medtech.
Prosthetics and Devices

Wearable for Opioid Users Injects Narcan If You Overdose

Keeping people alive is priority number one.

Don't know how to handle your anti-vaxxer relatives this Thanksgiving holiday? We've got your back, dear Futurism readers.
Future Society

How to Talk to Your Annoying Family About Vaccines

Citations for days.

In an email, CEO Elon Musk warned that any manager who doesn't execute his directions will be "asked to resign immediately."
Elon Musk

In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Issues Interesting Warning to Tesla Managers

If they don't comply, he said, they'll be "asked to resign immediately."

Imagine, if you will, that future humans manage to travel to other worlds and find...more humans. 
Exobiology

Scientists Say There May Be “Humans” All Over the Universe

In a galaxy far, far away...

Rolls-Royce's Spirit of Innovation electric airplane just crushed the all-electric top speed record, soaring through the air at 384.4 mph.
Advanced Transport

Electric Airplane Sets All-Time Speed Record

It smashed the current record by 132 mph.

Elon Musk Says “At Least” Half His Tweets are Made on Toilet
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says “At Least” Half His Tweets are Made on Toilet

He's just like the rest of us!

When your uncle asks if he should invest in some Bitcoin — or Floki, for that matter — you should have some answers ready.
Cryptocurrency

How to Talk to Your Family About Cryptocurrency

So your uncle wants to invest in Bitcoin...

Sure, the Metaverse could improve our lives. In fact, Rosenberg told Insider it'll make our world "feel like Harry Potter." But social media has already created a world where nobody can seem to agree on what's real or not, and the Metaverse isn't likely to make those problems better. They'll probably only get worse.
Future Society

Experts Say AR Could Let People “Reality Block” Stuff They Don’t Like

What's real... and what's Meta?

The team of three that recently published an essay on dream hacking in Aeon includes Harvard professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, and they report that a 2021 survey found that, of more than 400 marketers in the United States, 77% plan to use dream-tech advertising in the next three years.
Future Society

Scientists Warn That Marketers Are Trying to Inject Ads Into Dreams

Should advertisers be allowed to hack your dreams?

This Is the Science of Pleasure
Prosthetics and Devices

This Is the Science of Pleasure

MEL Magazine and Futurism present: Reports, stories, and dispatches from the horny and hedonistic horizons of tomorrow.

A team of scientists are suggesting that we protect humans on Mars from deadly atmospheric conditions by kickstarting the planet's magnetic field.
Mars

Scientists Propose Jumpstarting Mars’ Magnetic Field to Make It Habitable

Even NASA is on board.

A team of researchers say that the Moon is peppered with craters from miniature black holes — and they may reveal some breakthrough insights on dark matter. 
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Mini-Black Holes May Have Smashed Into the Moon

Its craters might reveal evidence of dark matter.

Back in October, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently had to adjust its orbit to dodge out of the way of India's Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter.
Moon

NASA’s Moon Orbiter Almost Crashed Into India’s Moon Orbiter

They would've gotten way too close for comfort.

The body of a deceased cargo ship captain spent six months in the ship's walk-in freezer with 13 countries refusing to take care of it.
Future Society

Cargo Ship Spent Months With Captain’s Corpse in Walk-in Freezer

The body spent six months in the ship's walk-in freezer.

An Arkansas woman found herself in a nightmare scenario recently when she discovered that someone had put an Apple tracking device on her car.
Devices

Woman Freaks Out After Discovering an Apple Tracking Device on Her Car

There's more to this story than meets the eye.

"Don’t want to brag but... I’m the best at humility," Musk tweeted today. To his credit, the billionaire hasn't shied away from admitting when he was wrong.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Brags That He Is the “Best at Humility”

"Don’t want to brag but... I’m the best at humility."

A high tech upcoming sex toy asks an intriguing question: is it possible to technologically emulate the experience of having a penis?
Robots and Machines

New Sex Toy Aims to Emulate the Experience of Having a Penis

"The goal is biomimicry, to mimic the experience of an orgasm through male sexuality."