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During this week's AI Day event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that the car company is working on a humanoid prototype called Tesla Bot.
Elon Musk

It's "intended to be friendly."

By Victor Tangermann

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts
Treatments

"Maybe it's scary to think about a docking station inside the body, but it worked."

By Dan Robitzski

A judge has awarded Blue Origin a "stay" after the Jeff Bezos-led space company sued NASA over losing the HLS contract to SpaceX.
Starship

Work on the lunar lander contract is on hold — again.

By Victor Tangermann

A huge rain storm, the first in recorded history to hit Greenland's ice sheet, caused a record-breaking ice melt last week.
Climate Change

Unprecedented rainfall washed away vast swathes of Greenland's ice.

By Dan Robitzski

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells
Viruses

Seeing the coronavirus in action is an important step toward thwarting it.

By Dan Robitzski

mRNA booster shots for COVID-19 may be available in the US starting next month. Many are still unvaccinated, but you should consider getting yours anyway.
Viruses

Booster shots may be coming to the US soon, for better or worse.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to 3D print a "viable" glioblastoma tumor so that they can develop better, more effective treatments for the deadly brain cancer.
Brain

It seems almost unfair for the little cancer blobs.

By Dan Robitzski

Police departments are increasingly relying on systems that use sensors and artificial intelligence to keep track of gunshots, the AP reports.
Future Society

Police departments are increasingly relying on fundamentally flawed technologies.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's constellation of Starlink satellites are responsible for 1,600 near-collisions every week, and that number is going to keep growing.
SpaceX

Starlink satellites have caused half of the near-collisions in orbit, and that percentage is poised to grow.

By Dan Robitzski

Literally Nobody Asked for Facebook’s Dumb VR Meeting Feature
Future Society

Even more work meetings, but this time with giant goggles strapped to your face.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Cambridge psychologists have demonstrated that magic tricks can fool birds, based on a snack-based version of the shell game.
Science & Energy

This next trick is for the birds!

By Dan Robitzski

Vaccine misinformation on TikTok is spreading like, well, something viral.
Developments

Low effort misinformation is having a huge impact on the platform.

By Dan Robitzski

A pharmacist was arrested for selling 125 blank CDC COVID vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who wanted to fake their documents.
Viruses

If you're going to undermine public health, at least charge a little more?

By Dan Robitzski

In a video shared by the Twitter account Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley, a Tesla can be seen wading through several feet of flood waters.
Tesla

But if you do, make sure to get it on video.

By Victor Tangermann

The latest Boston Dynamics video shows the humanoid robot Atlas jumping and flipping. Here's a cut of all the times it fell or tripped.
Boston Dynamics

Maybe the robots will report us for thoughtcrime, but delighting in their falls is worth it for now.

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis of the environmental impact of the 1987 ban on CFCs found that it bought us crucial time to stave off the worst of climate change.
Climate Change

Or, at the very least, it bought us crucial time.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have successfully grown brain organoids — tiny, three-dimensional tissue cultures that mimic the real thing — each with their own set of 'eyes.'
Developments

It's as creepy as it sounds.

By Victor Tangermann

The Army announced plans to develop and launch a series of high-altitude devices that can spy on and jam enemy communications.
Military

Lone Starr strikes again.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have genetically engineered daddy long legs to create a version with short legs, an effort to study how arachnids' genomes evolve over time.
Science & Energy

Meet the daddy short legs.

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is developing an uncrewed aircraft that can remain airborne for 90 days at a time thanks to massive solar panels on each of its wings.
Advanced Transport

"For us, if you’re flying 90 days with one aircraft, that’s two takeoffs and landings versus […] hundreds."

By Victor Tangermann