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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

This AI Knows When You’ll Die and Its Creators Don’t Know How

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

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

Driverless Tesla Found Driving in Wrong Lane in a Parking Lot

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

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

The CDC Says It Really Knows What’s Causing “Vape Lung” This Time

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

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

Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast in Deep Space

The massive explosion came from the surface of a pulsar.

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

Ambrosia Is Back to Selling Transfusions of Young People’s Blood

What is dead may never die.

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

Someone Published All the Membership Data From a Neo-Nazi Website

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

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

These Photos Make Molecular Structures Look Like Psychedelic Art

A new imaging technique produces gorgeous results.

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

This AI Decodes Your Brainwaves and Draws What You’re Looking at

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

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

Trump Advisers Want to Get WiFi, Amazon Deliveries in National Parks

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

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

Twitter Accidentally Trends Horrifyingly Explicit Sexual Terms

Uh oh.

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

Scientists Tout “Miracle” Cancer Drug That Starves Tumor Cells

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

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

Rival CEO Literally One-Ups Elon Musk’s Million-Tree Donation

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

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

Human Traffickers Are Literally Selling Slaves on Instagram

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

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

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

They're also sending a remote controlled Moon rover.

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 Company Invented a Sex Robot That Breathes

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

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

India’s Space Agency Wants to Explore Venus

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

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

Watch a Pack of MIT’s Mini Robots Cavort in Autumn Leaves

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

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

DNA Test Startup Claims It Can Spot Embryos With Low Intelligence

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

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

People Are Suddenly Getting Texts From Last Valentine’s Day

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

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

Doctors Announce First Ever “Fully Functional” Penis Transplant

Over a year later, the transplant remains successful.