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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that his company's Starship rocket will only require $900,000 of fuel per launch and cost $2 million per mission overall.
NASA

Elon Musk: SpaceX Launches Will Cost 1% of Current NASA Launches

Can Musk's latest claim possibly be true?

By Victor Tangermann

Over the last year, the number of posts on Reddit where people asked for help diagnosing a condition have doubled, especially when it comes to an STI.
Studies

People Are Posting Their Genitals on Reddit to Get STI Diagnoses

"Social media was not built to deliver health care."

By Dan Robitzski

NVIDIA researchers have created a new AI that needs one full body photo of a person to make them look like they’re dancing.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Can Make a Vid of You Dancing Like a Pro From a Single Pic

It can even make Michelangelo's David look like it's busting a move.

By Kristin Houser

Jaguar is working on futuristic new tech that could turn interior panels of your next car into smart, color-changing, and interactive screens.
Advanced Transport

Jaguar Wants to Coat the Interior of Land Rovers With OLED Screens

You'll be able to instantly change your car's entire interior.

By Victor Tangermann

A white supremacist planned to blow up a synagogue, but the bombs he got from undercover FBI agents he met through Facebook were inert.
Future Society

FBI Meets Would-Be Bomber on Facebook, Gives Him Fake Explosives

He planned to blow up a synagogue Friday night. Instead, he went to jail.

By Kristin Houser

We're littering an already-crowded space station environment and filling up valuable launch manifests with PR stunts. Knock it off, brands.
Future Society

Brands Keep Sending Their Pointless Swag to the Space Station

Brands' latest PR stunt: cluttering up the International Space Station with unnecessary crap, from wine to sneakers.

By Victor Tangermann

In a Monday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explained that Starship spaceports will need to be 20 miles offshore because of noise.
Starship

Elon Musk: Noisy Starship Spaceports Will Be 20 Miles Offshore

It'll still save you many hours over flying.

By Victor Tangermann

On Monday, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner flew for the first time as part of a launch abort test — and during the test, one of its parachutes didn't deploy.
Boeing

Boeing Starliner’s Parachute Fails to Deploy During First Flight

Luckily, it had backups.

By Kristin Houser

Cybercriminals could hack Siri, Alexa, and other voice-activated AI assistants using beams of light, according to new research.
Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Can Access Your Alexa by Shining a Laser in Your Window

They took over one smart device from 360 feet away.

By Kristin Houser

An alien-themed brothel in Nevada called Alien Cathouse just bought an AI sex robot to cater to clients with unusual fetishes.
Robotics

An Alien-Themed Brothel Just Bought a Sex Robot

They claim to sterilize it between clients.

By Dan Robitzski

We couldn't help but admire this big, fully functional, hammer-sized Bluetooth AirPod built by handy Redditor Master_Aar17. Seriously, just look at it.
Robots and Machines

Behold This Gigantic, Fully Functional AirPod

"Sadly I can't sell it because Apple would get pissed."

By Jon Christian

T-Mobile's parent comapny, Deutsche Telekom, is suing the insurance company Lemonade for using the color magenta in its advertisements.
Future Society

T-Mobile Says It Has Legal Rights to That Obnoxious Pink Color

A bizarre lawsuit is targeting an insurance company that used magenta in its ads.

By Dan Robitzski

More than 11,000 scientists in 153 nations have endorsed a newly published statement on climate change — and it does not contain much good news.
Climate Change

11K Scientists: Please Panic, Climate Change Will Kill Us All

"We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency."

By Kristin Houser

Instead of crafting a complex code to share mathematical and scientific knowledge with aliens, the best way to communicate might be using our lanuages.
Science & Energy

To Chat With Aliens, We Should Beam an Encyclopedia to Space

Maybe we don't need to craft some special code to communicate.

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft is pivoting its Bing search engine to focus on businesses, claiming it'll make it easier for employees to navigate companies' intranets.
Future Society

Microsoft Is Giving Up On Regular People Ever Using Bing

New objective: get businesses to use the search engine.

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Air Force is trying to find out if we could collect solar power in space and beam it down to Earth with the help of Northrop Grumman..
Solar Power

The Air Force Is Trying to Beam Solar Power Down to Earth

Could a constellation of satellites wirelessly transmit solar power to remote areas?

By Victor Tangermann

Now, Motherboard reports, MIT students are calling for the termination of a third academic associated with Epstein — this one even closer to the financier.
Future Society

Students Demand MIT Fire Prof Who Visited Epstein in Prison

On the first day of a quantum computing course, the professor allegedly launched into a "monologue" about his relationship with the famous sex criminal.

By Jon Christian

NASA just funded a study to determine the feasibility of a Pluto orbiter, which would provide a much closer look at the dwarf planet than New Horizons did.
Science & Energy

NASA Is Seriously Considering a Pluto Orbiter

Dwarf planet or not, NASA wants to get a much closer look at Pluto.

By Victor Tangermann

In a new paper, cosmologists argue that the shape of the universe is more like an inflating balloon than a flat sheet of paper.
Science & Energy

The Universe May Loop Around Like an Old Video Game

Cosmologists can't agree: Is the universe flat or shaped like an inflating balloon?

By Victor Tangermann

An online calculator shows what would happen if a black hole gulped down the Earth or any other objects floating around in space.
Science & Energy

Here’s What Would Happen if Earth Collided With a Black Hole

Earth wouldn't even make a dent.

By Dan Robitzski