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Russian researchers have created an AI that analyzes electroencephalography data and draws what a person is looking at in real time.
Brain

The revolutionary system can reconstruct data from scalp electrodes into a video of what the participant is seeing.

By Kristin Houser

A number of Trump advisers have offered their "modernized" vision of national parks and campgrounds, including WiFi, food trucks, even Amazon deliveries.
Science & Energy

“We want to let Americans make their own decisions in the marketplace.”

By Victor Tangermann

The top trends on Twitter included X-rated terms and references to sexual violence that somehow got past its content moderation tools.
Robots and Machines

Uh oh.

By Dan Robitzski

A new cancer drug cuts off tumor cells' food supply while also seemingly supercharging the immune systems' cancer-destroying T cells.
Cancer

"If this compound can be translated to humans, it has a bright future."

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk donated a million dollars to a campaign to plant trees. The next day, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke pledged a million and one.
Elon Musk

Musk pledged a million trees. Tobi Lütke is donating a million and one.

By Kristin Houser

Human traffickers are selling slaves via Instagram and other apps, according to a disturbing new investigation by BBC News Arabic.
Future Society

They tried to sell a 16-year-old girl on Instagram. "This is the quintessential example of modern slavery," said a UN representative.

By Kristin Houser

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks
Moon

They're also sending a remote controlled Moon rover.

By Kristin Houser

AI-AItech, the company behind a sex robot named Emma, plans to release a more realistic model that can walk, move its arms, and breathe in and out.
Robotics

This might be the most unholy use of robotics tech yet.

By Dan Robitzski

India's space agency is waiting for the green light on a planned mission to visit and map out the entire surface of Venus.
Science & Energy

It wants to map out the planet's entire surface.

By Dan Robitzski

In a video uploaded by MIT's Biomimetics department, nine Mini Cheetah robots can be seen rustling up some autumn leaves and doing the occasional backflip.
Robotics

Who needs dogs when you can watch 20-pound robots play?

By Victor Tangermann

A company called Genomic Prediction offers report cards based on the DNA test of frozen embryos. Experts say it's reminiscent of eugenics.
DNA

"Right off the bat it raises all kind of questions about eugenics."

By Dan Robitzski

A glitch by third-party text platform Syniverse resulted in the delayed delivery of thousands of texts originally penned on Valentine's Day.
Future Society

An IT glitch resulted in the delayed delivery of 168,149 texts.

By Kristin Houser

Over a year later, the veteran who got the world's first penis transplant that included the scrotum and surrounding flesh reports that he's doing just fine.
Developments

Over a year later, the transplant remains successful.

By Dan Robitzski

By connecting satellites with ultra-thin tethers, engineers could safely steer them back to Earth with a space propulsion system, no fuel required.
Off-World

"In other words, it is the sailing ship of space."

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has released an amazing video that shows half of a nose cone (or fairing) from a Falcon Heavy rocket plummet back own to Earth.
SpaceX

That same piece will be reused as early as next week.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk elaborated on his extremely ambitious plans to establish a sustainable settlement on Mars by sending 1,000 Starship rockets.
Starship

It will take 20 years to send 100 million tons of cargo to the Red Planet.

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian space launch startup has partnered with commercial space services company to develop a way to reuse old rocket parts in space.
Off-World

Rockets' upper stages could be turned into space stations.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created an unsinkable metal by using lasers to etch an air-trapping pattern onto an aluminum structure's surface.
Science & Energy

Where was this tech when they were building the Titanic?

By Kristin Houser

In September 2020, Italy will begin making it mandatory for students to learn about climate change in school for 33 hours per year.
Climate Change

"The 21st century citizen must be a sustainable citizen."

By Kristin Houser

In China, minors are no longer allowed to play video games between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., or for more than 90 minutes total on weekdays.
Health & Medicine

Kids are also limited to just 90 minutes of game play on weekdays.

By Kristin Houser