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Inventor Richard Browning donned his Iron Man-style jet suit to deliver a letter to the Isle of Wight — and broke a personal flight record in the process.
Advanced Transport

And break a personal flight record in the process.

By Kristin Houser

Apple was just granted three new patents for the Apple Watch, one of which involves taking an uncomfortably-close look at the skin on your wrist.
Robots and Machines

A new patent does away with the usual biometrics.

By Dan Robitzski

Using a deepfake imitating the voice of its parent company's CEO, a scammer convinced an energy executive to transfer $243,000 to a third-party account.
Artificial Intelligence

You gotta give 'em points for creativity!

By Dan Robitzski

In a first-person view video uploaded to Twitter by Russia's space agency today, humanoid robot Fedor can be seen manning an electric drill.
Robotics

Let's hope he doesn't drill a hole in the wall!

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese deepfake app Zao replaces famous actors with iPhone users' faces, and though popular, it has quickly raised serious privacy concerns.
Artificial Intelligence

It's sparked a wave of controversy among privacy experts.

By Kristin Houser

The Gateway Foundation wants to build a luxury orbital space hotel based on plans drawn up by NAzi scientist Wernher von Braun in the 1950s.
Off-World

They say it'll be like a luxurious cruise ship. And for some reason it'll be named after an infamous Nazi rocket scientist.

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of researchers associated with the U.S. Air Force want to give the codes to launch nuclear bombs to an artificial intelligence (AI).
Artificial Intelligence

Will an AI reminiscent of "Dr. Strangelove" deter the enemy from mounting a nuclear attack?

By Victor Tangermann

Orion Span's proposed space hotel, the Aurora Space Station, might be ready within two years. But its cost jumped $3 million since April.
Off-World

26 people have paid the $80,000 deposit for a stay.

By Dan Robitzski

Shortly after SpaceX's Starhopper completed its test launch last week, Elon Musk speculated that the next iteration would be twice as wide.
Starship

Starship 2.0 could be 240 meters tall — dwarfing the Washington Monument.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch took to Twitter to share terrifying photos of Hurricane Dorian that they'd snapped from the ISS.
NASA

"You can feel the power of the storm when you stare into its eye from above."

By Kristin Houser

A new gel could someday help people regrow tooth enamel, potentially erasing tooth decay and replacing artificial fillings.
Developments

This could revolutionize dentistry.

By Dan Robitzski

To avoid a collision with one of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, the ESA was forced to perform a first-of-its-kind "collision avoidance manoeuvre."
ESA

SpaceX forced the ESA to do something it'd never done before.

By Kristin Houser

Several national governments are using country-wide internet shutoffs and censorship to squash internal dissent and censor their critics.
Future Society

Governments are cracking down on protests by turning off the internet.

By Dan Robitzski

Fitbit partnered with Singapore to provide free fitness trackers to people in exchange for a monthly fee and access to their health data.
Future Society

But they have to share all of their data with the government.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomy experts managed to glean much more from a spy satellite image of an Iranian rocket base tweeted by President Donald Trump last week.
Future Society

The tweeter-in-chief strikes again.

By Victor Tangermann

A ransomware attack left approximately 400 dentist offices hacked and without access to their computer files, and most are still trying to regain it.
Future Society

"It had a devastating effect on our office."

By Kristin Houser

In light of an impending "monster storm," the City of Miami requested all e-scooters to be removed from its streets by noon today to avoid a "scooternado."
Future Society

Flying scooters should be the least of Floridians' worries right now.

By Victor Tangermann

An Australian man has uploaded a video of himself hanging from a drone while fishing — and the whole stunt appears to have gone surprisingly well.
Drones

"There's lots of things that could have gone wrong."

By Kristin Houser

Google security researchers have uncovered an extensive iPhone hacking effort that may have compromised thousands of users weekly for years.
Google

Anyone who visited a hacked site was compromised.

By Kristin Houser

The Pentagon's AI intelligence chief sees deepfake technology as a serious threat to democracy. He called on the government to develop better safeguards.
Artificial Intelligence

In no uncertain terms, he called deepfakes a threat to national security.

By Dan Robitzski