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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has told FedEx to get its delivery bots off his city's streets or NYC will "send them packing" itself.
Robots and Machines

"[W]e didn’t grant permission for these to clog up our streets."

By Kristin Houser

A comprehensive new study confirms that the American life expectancy has been dropping for years and that the problem is broader than expected.
Studies

There's "something terribly wrong."

By Dan Robitzski

Strategic design consultancy Manyone proposes building an elevated train called the AeroSlider as a way to cut the emissions caused by air travel.
Advanced Transport

Oh, and it hovers 65 feet over the ground.

By Kristin Houser

A U.S. police force has tested the capabilities of a robot dog for the first time, but it's keeping mum on the exact details of the bot's use.
Boston Dynamics

"All too often, the deployment of these technologies happens faster than our social, political, or legal systems react."

By Kristin Houser

A study suggests that there could be thousands of giant exoplanets and planets that form around and orbit a supermassive black hole.
Science & Energy

"Around black holes, there might exist planetary systems of astonishing scale."

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla's Cybertruck turned a lot of heads for its unapologetically brutalist design, and now the internet has given the bizarre truck a radical new makeover.
Tesla

The internet had a field day.

By Victor Tangermann

Google fired four employees who were helping lead the workforce's push to organize and form a union, prompting accusations of deliberate union-busting.
Future Society

"This is classic union busting dressed up in tech industry jargon."

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla patented a system that would replace good old fashioned windshield wipers with actual laser beams that zap away debris.
Tesla

Yes, really.

By Dan Robitzski

A new investigation reveals just how dangerous Amazon warehouses are for workers. Injuries are dangerously high, and people's jobs are always on the line.
Future Society

"For Amazon, all they care about is getting the job done and getting it out fast and not realizing how it's affecting us and our own bodies."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they've spotted the turbulence allowing black holes to transfer heat to the gas at the core of their galaxy clusters.
Physics

This may explain how black holes transfer heat throughout their galaxies.

By Kristin Houser

Sunny Madra, VP of Ford X, challenged Elon Musk to conduct a real "apples to apples" test between the Cybertruck and the Ford F-150.
Tesla

Elon Musk fired back: "Bring it on."

By Victor Tangermann

Porn stars and sex workers are having troubling stopping Instagram from deleting their accounts — even when their posts don't violate the site's rules.
Future Society

"They discriminate against us because they don’t like what we do for a living."

By Kristin Houser

New deepfake-creating AI can make someone look and sound like Joe Rogan. While it's not perfect, it paints a troubling picture of the future.
Artificial Intelligence

It's disturbingly realistic.

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers have detected three supermassive black holes at the core of a galaxy — and the discovery could solve a universal mystery.
Science & Energy

It turns out the galaxy's twin black holes are actually triplets.

By Kristin Houser

A startup is developing a system that could allow spacecraft and satellites to launch after being dropped from a massive hot-air balloon at 60,000 feet.
Space

The autonomous balloon platform is designed to launch 33-foot rockets into orbit.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered fossils left behind in an ancient meteorite that reveal how ice was distributed throughout the early, still-forming solar system.
Science & Energy

This is the "starting material from which all the planets, including Earth, came from."

By Dan Robitzski

The booster from a Chinese rocket landed on populated settlement on Saturday — and China could have prevented the whole situation from unfolding.
Off-World

The rocket's booster landed on a building, causing fires to break out.

By Kristin Houser

Once again, London is trying to get rid of Uber over passenger safety concerns. And once again, Uber is confident that it's not going anywhere,
Future Society

City officials blame a "pattern of failures" by Uber.

By Dan Robitzski

Conspiracy theories are circulating, claiming that Elon Musk had the Cybertruck's windows smash on purpose to get free publicity.
Tesla

Let's be honest: If it was a PR stunt, it's been a resounding success.

By Victor Tangermann

During the latest episode of animated series "Rick and Morty," the titular characters meet Elon Tusk, an alternate reality version of Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Hear that? That’s the sound of millions of fans' heads exploding.

By Kristin Houser