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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

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.

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

The US Is Testing a Space Propulsion System That Doesn’t Use Fuel

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

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

Watch a Piece of a SpaceX Rocket Careen Back Down to Earth

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

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

Elon Musk: I Can Build a Martian City With 1,000 Starships

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

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

This Startup Wants to Turn Space Junk Into Orbital Hotels

Rockets' upper stages could be turned into space stations.

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

Watch a Piece of Metal Refuse to Sink in Water

Where was this tech when they were building the Titanic?

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

Italy Will Soon Force Public Schools to Teach Climate Change

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

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

China Bans Minors From Playing Video Games After 10 PM

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