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Over 419 million database records on hundreds of millions of Facebook users, including their phone numbers, were stored in an unprotected server.
Future Society

The data was stored on a server that wasn't even password-protected.

By Victor Tangermann

Sophia the Robot and Evan Rachel Wood sit in dramatic lighting
Robots and Machines

By Jacob Banas

Elon Musk: “A Big Rock Will Hit Earth Eventually”
Science & Energy

Musk: "And we currently have no defense."

By Victor Tangermann

An Illinois resident had died from a mysterious respiratory illness related to vaping, and officials still aren't certain as to its cause.
Chemistry

A mystery disease is sweeping the country — and experts are seemingly no closer to pinpointing its cause.

By Kristin Houser

A newly proposed type of space elevator called the Spaceline could theoretically be built out of materials that exist today, hinting at easier space travel.
Moon

It's a space elevator concept that could actually work.

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube Kids is using basic math problems to ensure that young children don't access content that they're not supposed to be watching.
Future Society

A revolution in cybersecurity.

By Victor Tangermann

A BMW covered in Vantablack, a coating that absorbs nearly all light, is about to go on display at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Advanced Transport

See it — sort of — at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

By Kristin Houser

Johns Hopkins announced a new privately-funded research center to develop psychedelics-based medical treatments for conditions like depression and PTSD.
Health & Medicine

Johns Hopkins doctors will pursue treatments for conditions like PTSD.

By Dan Robitzski

PayPal has suspended an account used by the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to collect donations from supporters.
Future Society

The hate group just got the boot.

By Kristin Houser

The doctor behind the young blood transfusion clinic Ambrosia is back with a mysterious new venture — a transfusion clinic called Ivy Plasma.
RX and Medicine

We tried to ask him some questions, but he was very evasive.

By Dan Robitzski

A non-profit group called Privacy International found that mental health-focused websites in Europe are selling user data to third-party advertisers.
Data Privacy

"It is exceedingly difficult for people to seek mental-health information and for example take a 'depression test' without countless third parties watching."

By Dan Robitzski

First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes
Developments

It's now against the law to market vapes as "clean," "safe," or "healthy" — at least in Michigan.

By Kristin Houser

A doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley built tiny flapping-wing and hopping robots that could one day explore distant planets.
Robots and Machines

Tiny flying and hopping microrobots could fare much better on Mars than rovers.

By Victor Tangermann

A software company is making construction robots that learn to excavate and assemble structures by imitating human movements and may someday work in space.
Robotics

Construction bots are learning to work by mirroring people's movements.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX said it didn't do anything to avoid a satellite collision because a software bug prevented it from knowing the risk of a crash had increased.
SpaceX

It didn’t even know the chance of a collision had increased.

By Kristin Houser

Amazon is working on a system called Orville that would let people pay for things by waving their hands in front of a scanner.
Future Society

Amazon is testing the new biometric system on its own employees first.

By Dan Robitzski

A sociological research survey of AI chatbots' capabilities found that they could empathize with each other and tell jokes among themselves.
Artificial Intelligence

Chatbots empathized, joked, and even tried to seduce each other.

By Dan Robitzski

Italian sports car maker Lamborghini just revealed the Sián, its first ever hybrid. But this isn't a Prius — far from it.
Advanced Transport

This extremely rare $3.6 million hypercar is definitely not a Prius.

By Victor Tangermann

The National Transportation Safety Board found that a Tesla driver who crashed into a fire truck was eating and drinking with Autopilot on before the crash.
Tesla

Autopilot still doesn't mean your Tesla can fully drive itself.

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities in Hong Kong are spraying crowds of protestors with canons full of blue dye to make them easy to identify for later arrest.
Future Society

Protestors found a way around facial recognition tech. Now they have to deal with blue dye.

By Kristin Houser