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A Ford pickup truck was airlifted from a parking lot in Berlin after it was blocking (or ICEing) a dedicated Tesla electric vehicle charging stall.
Tesla

They literally lifted it out with a crane.

By Victor Tangermann

One man recently got a double lung transplant because he vaped so much that he caused irreparable damage to his respiratory system.
RX and Medicine

He asked the hospital to use his story as a warning for others.

By Dan Robitzski

Not only could SpaceX's satellites interfere with radio wavelengths, they're already proving to be brighter than expected.
Science & Energy

"If there are lots and lots of bright moving objects in the sky, it tremendously complicates our job."

By Victor Tangermann

An engineer has created MediSieve, a tech that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to unwanted cells in the blood and then removes the cells using magnets.
Health & Medicine

"In theory, you can go after almost anything. Poisons, pathogens, viruses, bacteria..."

By Kristin Houser

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser seemed to slam Elon Musk in a tweet, but then went on to deny that he was referring to the SpaceX CEO.
Off-World

Leave Elon alone!!!

By Kristin Houser

A Redditor claims they are falling in love with GPT-2, an AI that churns out paragraphs of mostly coherent text in response to a prompt.
OpenAI

GPT-2 makes them "feel like someone whom is cared about."

By Kristin Houser

Astro Live Experiences is just about ready to send its long-promised, artificial shooting star-launching satellite into orbit.
Science & Energy

Pending successful tests, the first shower will happen next year.

By Dan Robitzski

Asked whether it's ever been in love, Sophia the Robot told the crowd at the 2019 Web Summit that "No. I don't do sexual activities."
Robotics

"No. I don't do sexual activities."

By Dan Robitzski

Galaxies millions of light years away seem to be connected by network of unseen forces, forcing them to move with each other in unexpected ways.
Science & Energy

Galaxies are aligning, despite being billions of light years apart. Astrophysicists are stumped — and intrigued.

By Victor Tangermann

A Florida detective was granted a warrant to access the entire database of a DNA website — and experts say the situation sets a dangerous precedent.
Future Society

One judge's decision could set off a privacy nightmare.

By Kristin Houser

The Apple Card has granted women a lower credit limit than their husbands in a number of high-profile cases, raising questions about bias behind the scenes.
Artificial Intelligence

They share their assets. He was granted a much higher credit limit.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has successfully deployed the first 60 Starlink satellites, which after launch will team up with thousands more to beam internet to Earth.
SpaceX

60 down. Thousands more to go.

By Kristin Houser

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi compared his company's self-driving car killing someone to Saudi Arabia murdering a journalist, calling both simple mistakes.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"I think that people make mistakes."

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at a U.S. healthcare provider trained an AI to predict when you'll die by which patients were at a higher risk of dying within the next year.
Developments

"The model is seeing things that humans probably can’t see."

By Victor Tangermann

A video has surfaced showing a driverless Tesla moving at a brisk pace through a mall parking lot — on the wrong side of the road.
Tesla

Regulators aren't happy about Tesla's new Smart Summon feature.

By Victor Tangermann

New CDC research solidifies scientists' hunch that a compound called vitamin E acetate is causing the ongoing "vape lung" outbreak.
Chemistry

A growing mountain of evidence implicates one compound in the mysterious illness.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists detected a thermonuclear explosion in space, which they believe was caused by a fusion reaction on the surface of a pulsar.
Science & Energy

The massive explosion came from the surface of a pulsar.

By Dan Robitzski

Ambrosia Health, the "young blood" transfusion clinic formerly known as Ivy Plasma, is back, touting a new overnight shipping service.
Developments

What is dead may never die.

By Dan Robitzski

Someone just released a massive amount of data from Iron March, one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world.
Data Privacy

The data dump includes members' public posts and private chats.

By Kristin Houser

Scientists use an electron microscopy science technique called 4D-STEM to image the molecular structure of materials with the beautiful result of art.
Science & Energy

A new imaging technique produces gorgeous results.

By Kristin Houser