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The latest draft of the infrastructure bill includes a provision that would require every new car to be able to tell if the driver is too drunk.
Advanced Transport

Down the road, your car might be able to determine when you've had enough.

By Dan Robitzski

A new video making its round son social media shows how the devastating wildfires in southern Turkey have become.
Science & Energy

This is seriously terrifying.

By Victor Tangermann

To make room for Russia's new International Space Station module Nauka, the old module Pirs was retired. Video shows it incinerate as it fell to Earth.
Off-World

Make a wish!

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian delegate to a UN conference argued that autonomous killer robots shouldn't be subject to any additional rules or regulations.
Robotics

Needless to say, that's the minority view.

By Dan Robitzski

The Bitcoin business called Bitcoin Embassy in the small libertarian town of Keene, New Hampshire, was raided by federal agents back in March
Bitcoin

To libertarians, crypto is a "dramatic transfer of power." To the feds, it's aiding financial crimes.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists detected a series of bright X-ray flares coming from one of the least expected places: from behind a supermassive black hole.
Science & Energy

Just like Einstein predicted.

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this month, a sustainability researcher validated a 1972 prediction that civilization is on the verge of collapse. Now she explains what that means.
Future Society

But, she adds, nothing is inevitable.

By Dan Robitzski

Rapper Lil Uzi Vert and Grimes say that Uzi is in the process of buying the exoplanet WAS-127b. Experts say that's total nonsense.
Science & Energy

Space law expert: "It's fraud."

By Dan Robitzski

A YouTube channel called Tech Support Scams dedicated to rooting out scammers and unmasking them, fell victim to a tech support scammer.
Future Society

Lessons were learned.

By Victor Tangermann

Back when Tesla was designing the Model Y, engineers worked behind Elon Musk's back to amke sure the vehicle had a steering wheel.
Elon Musk

Who needs 'em?

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX is getting closer and closer to launching its first massive Starship prototype into orbit.
Starship

This thing looks ridiculous.

By Victor Tangermann

equity investment
Finance

Introducing Hometap: no loans, no monthly payments, no kidding.

By Futurism Creative

The sharp increase of screen time during the pandemic has been linked to a huge spike in myopia, also known as near-sightedness, among kids.
Studies

After a year spent indoors staring at screens, short-sightedness is on the rise in kids.

By Dan Robitzski

A fireball meteor flew over Turkey last week, illuminating the night sky an eerie shade of bright green before it exploded.
Science & Energy

Onlookers claimed the meteor was anything ranging from advanced weaponry to aliens.

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese state media ran an article on Tuesday calling video games opium for children, and the country's tech giants are already adding new restrictions.
Future Society

"It is reminiscent of older articles where video games were compared to digital heroin."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Curiosity rover has found something awesome on the surface of Mars: a small, naturally-formed stone arch in Gale Crater.
NASA

"I'll leave it up to the scientists to explain what the hell is going on here."

By Jon Christian

As astronauts venture farther and farther into space, they may need a little pick-me-up in the form of psilocybin when they start to feel lonely.
Chemistry

What better way to appreciate the wonders of space?

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has now confirmed that Russia's Nauka module sent the International Space station spinning farther off course than it admitted at first.
NASA

The ISS spun nearly enough to qualify for Olympic skateboarding.

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean where oxygen levels have plummeted so low that everything in the area either fled or died.
Climate Change

"More and more, the evidence really points strongly to climate change as being a factor."

By Dan Robitzski

Remember last week, when a new book claimed that Elon Musk once demanded to be made the CEO of Apple? Now he says it never happened.
Elon Musk

"Cook and I have never spoken or written to each other ever."

By Jon Christian