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Contrary to previous reports, hackers are stealing from more ATMs in more countries around the world than ever with jackpotting attacks.
Robots and Machines

This Malware Makes ATMs Spit Out All Their Money

"Jackpot" attacks, which force ATMs to give up all their cash, are spreading worldwide.

Russia is working on a lunar rover with a wheeled base supporting the body of its humanoid robot Fedor, which has already visited the ISS.
Off-World

Russia’s Working on a Lunar Rover With a Humanoid Torso

Russia trained a humanoid robot to shoot a handgun. Now it wants to send it to the Moon.

Old Tesla cars are running into problems: their flash memory is wearing out as a result of excessive data logging and resource-intensive updates.
Tesla

The Flash Memory Is Wearing out in Old Teslas

When the flash memory fails, Teslas get bricked.

A robodog does a push-up every time the Virginia Tech football team scores a touchdown, putting a high-tech twist on an old college tradition.
Robot Dogs

Robodog Replaces Cheerleaders in College’s Touchdown Celebration

"It’s a friendly creature for society, and it is going to assist people, not replace anyone."

Smart Summon is a technologically impressive feature, and it works most of the time, but it also appears to have caused several fender benders already.
Tesla

Smart Summon Keeps Causing Teslas to Crash

Smart Summon is causing fender benders — and worse.

Japan's biggest airline believes robot avatars are the future of travel, allowing people to visit far-off destinations without leaving their homes.
Robotics

Airline Unveils Robot Avatars It Hopes Will Replace Flying

The future of travel is... no travel at all?

An international group of scientists is compiling a biological "atlas" of all the individual cells that make up the human body.
Developments

A New Project Is Helping Map Every Cell in the Human Body

They're building an "atlas" of the human body.

A study claiming that He Jiankui's CRISPR babies would die young due to the Chinese scientist's edits has been retracted.
Gene Editing

Study Retracted: Edits Won’t Doom CRISPR Babies to Early Death

"I feel I have a responsibility to put the record straight for the public."

China is building a flying saucer-like experimental attack helicopter, and according to state media, it could fly as soon as 2020.
Military

New Chinese Military Aircraft Looks Exactly Like a Flying Saucer

The experimental attack helicopter looks like alien technology.

UK-based startup SpaceBit's Moon rover is not only the smallest ever, but it also has legs instead of the typical wheels.
Moon

2021 Moon Rover Will Have Legs Instead of Wheels

The UK's first lunar lander will walk, not roll, across the Moon's surface.

To find out what teens are smoking, two researchers collected trash from the grounds of 12 high schools over the course of eight months.
Chemistry

Scientists Dug Through Teens’ Trash to See What They’re Smoking

And found a link between students' home lives and their products of choice.

PayPal left Facebook's cryptocurrency project last week. Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, and eBay have decided to abandon the crumbling project as well.
Cryptocurrency

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency is Collapsing in Front of Our Eyes

Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, eBay, and PayPal have all abandoned Facebook's crypto project.

Porsche and Boeing Want to Build This Sexy Flying Car Together
Advanced Transport

Porsche and Boeing Want to Build This Sexy Flying Car Together

This luxurious aircraft is aimed at the richest of the rich.

A team of researchers in Japan have developed a new way to keep brain tissue from animals alive and viable for up to 25 days.
Brain

Scientists Keep Brain Tissue From Dead Mice Alive For Weeks

"This method can be used for more than explanted tissues from animals."

At least six of the smaller galaxies orbiting the Milky Way were stolen from one of its other satellites, according to new research.
Science & Energy

Our Ravenous Galaxy Keeps Stealing Smaller Galaxies

At least six of the Milky Way's satellites used to belong to another galaxy.

Astrobiologist Samantha Rolfe says that Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars are more of a "moral catastrophe" than a noble aspiration.
Starship

Astrobiologist: Elon Musk’s Starship Is a “Moral Catastrophe”

Musk doesn't seem concerned about cross-planetary contamination.

The Hong Kong government has announced a ban on any face masks or paints that are "likely to prevent identification" during public demonstrations.
Artificial Intelligence

Hong Kong Bans Surveillance-Thwarting Face Masks

But enforcing the ban might not be so easy.

A Yahoo software engineer hacked 6,000 people's accounts in a systematic, far-reaching hunt for nudes and other sexually-explicit media.
Science & Energy

Yahoo Engineer Admits He Hacked User Accounts to Hunt for Nudes

Some of his 6,000 targets were his personal friends.

Early observations of the interstellar object 2I/Borisov suggest that the comet's home solar system might not be that different from our own.
Solar Power

Interstellar Object’s Home Solar System May Resemble Our Own

This comet seems strangely familiar.

A Dutch sex worker website has been hacked, with the thief getting away with the email addresses and other data of more than 250,000 users.
Hacking

Sex Worker Website Hacked, Details on 250,000+ Users Now for Sale

And the hacker is asking a bizarrely low price for the data.