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Tesla decided to reinstate $8,000 worth of Autopilot features to a used 2017 Model S after the owner found the company had removed them after he bought it.
Tesla

Tesla says the incident was "not intentional" and a "miscommunication."

By Victor Tangermann

South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported today that the deadly coronavirus COVID-19 is spreading in North Korea.
Developments

This is bad — and Pyongyang could respond with characteristic brutality.

By Jon Christian

NASA is building a huge dish in California that it hopes will allow Mars astronauts to communicate with Earth — using high-powered lasers.
Mars

Radio waves are so 2000-and-late.

By Jon Christian

In a new lawsuit, the state of Massachusetts claims that fashionable vape brand Juul marketed to kids with ad buys on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.
Developments

Here are the ads that got them in trouble.

By Jon Christian

The European Space Agency releaed a troubling time-lapse video showing a gigantic iceberg splitting off of Antarctica and drifting away.
Climate Change

The iceberg split into smaller ones, which the ESA is calling "piglets."

By Dan Robitzski

The 2020 Democratic primaries are well underway and the campaign for Bloomberg is getting down and dirty with top-notch Instagram memes.
Future Society

Welcome to our new normal: presidential campaign meme accounts.

By Jacob Banas

An tech company published a website, purportedly meant to help journalists write better, that's using AI to publish believable fake news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

It's hard to mince words about how much this sucks.

By Dan Robitzski

The asteroid belt will get turned into dust when, as the Sun is finally dying, it will get incredibly bright, and destroy ithe entire asteroid belt. Fun!
Science & Energy

"Not only will our own asteroid belt be destroyed, but it will be done quickly and violently."

By Jon Christian

"Mythbusters" legend Adam Savage has built a one-person rickshaw carriage so that his Boston Dynamics Spot robot can lug him around.
Robot Dogs

Riding in style.

By Victor Tangermann

An executive order mobilized the entire U.S. military to prepare for a potential COVID-19 pandemic, should the outbreak ever progress to that point.
Developments

"We are taking all appropriate precautionary measures to prevent any potential spread of the virus."

By Dan Robitzski

Coronavirus COVID-19 test kits sent out in America are proving to be faulty, and in China where they're needed most, there simply aren't enough.
Viruses

Inaccurate or absent results put a massive, incredibly dangerous problem.

By Foster Kamer

Once again, experts are warning that consumer DNA tests will eradicate people's privacy and make them vulnerable to workplace discrimination.
DNA

"It is kind of a Wild West as far as regulation."

By Dan Robitzski

17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Associated Press reports.
Climate Change

Thunberg was also named Time's Person of the Year in 2019.

By Victor Tangermann

An attempt to make his car "invisible" using the license plate "NULL" actually put a security researcher on the hook for $18,000 of other people's tickets.
Science & Energy

An attempt to make his car "invisible" actually attracted $18,000 in tickets.

By Dan Robitzski

As the deadly coronavirus is spreading across the entire globe, people are clamoring to protect themselves triggering shortages of face masks worldwide.
Viruses

But do they actually work?

By Victor Tangermann

Programmers are creating Tinder bots to swipe for them on the platform and, in some cases, have basic conversations with their matches.
Future Society

"At one point, the bot was having maybe 200 conversations at a time."

By Kristin Houser

The number of people infected by the coronavirus — and dying from it — is quickly increasing, but has the outbreak reached the level of a pandemic?
Viruses

Let's take a step back.

By Kristin Houser

The coronavirus outbreak can cause extreme symptoms like coughing up blood or lung infections, but milder cases are more similar to the flu.
Viruses

Coughing blood. Septic shock. But milder symptoms can fly under the radar.

By Dan Robitzski

German artist Simon Weckert created his own personal traffic jam on Google Maps by loading 99 smartphones into a small cart and lugging them down a street.
Future Society

Okay, this is a pretty clever way to sow chaos.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk just dropped a generic-sounding EDM song on SoundCloud. Seriously. No, we're not making this up.
Elon Musk

Here's where you can listen to it.

By Victor Tangermann