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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 Returns Autopilot Features to Used Car After Outrage

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

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

Deadly Outbreak COVID-19 Reportedly Spreads to North Korea

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

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

NASA: Mars Astronauts Will Use Lasers to Communicate With Earth

Radio waves are so 2000-and-late.

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

Lawsuit: Juul Targeted Kids with Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network Ads

Here are the ads that got them in trouble.

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

Watch a Las Vegas-Sized Iceberg Break Off Antarctica

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

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

Bloomberg Hires Fyre Fest Promoters to Make Memes

Welcome to our new normal: presidential campaign meme accounts.

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

This Site Uses AI to Generate Fake News Articles

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

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

In Its Dying Gasp, Our Sun Will Obliterate the Asteroid Belt

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

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

Watch a Robodog Drag Adam Savage Around in a Goth Rickshaw

Riding in style.

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

US Military Issues Executive Order to Prevent COVID-19 Pandemic

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

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

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Test Kits are Broken in America, Scarce in China

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

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

Experts: Corporations Could Do Terrible Things With Your DNA

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

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

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

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

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

This Guy Got the License Plate “NULL” and It Was a Total Disaster

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

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

Chinese Outbreak Fear Spurs Worldwide Face Mask Shortage

But do they actually work?

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

Programmers Are Creating Chatbots to Flirt on Tinder For Them

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

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

Is the Coronavirus a Pandemic? Here’s What Experts Say.

Let's take a step back.

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

These Are the Symptoms of Coronavirus

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

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

Guy Causes Google Maps “Traffic Jams” By Carrying 99 Cell Phones

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

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

Elon Musk Just Dropped a Heavily Auto-Tuned Song on SoundCloud

Here's where you can listen to it.