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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.

Robots and Machines

Twitter Accidentally Trends Horrifyingly Explicit Sexual Terms

Uh oh.

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

Rival CEO Literally One-Ups Elon Musk’s Million-Tree Donation

Musk pledged a million trees. Tobi Lütke is donating a million and one.

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.

Moon

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks

They're also sending a remote controlled Moon rover.

Robotics

This Company Invented a Sex Robot That Breathes

This might be the most unholy use of robotics tech yet.

Robotics

Watch a Pack of MIT’s Mini Robots Cavort in Autumn Leaves

Who needs dogs when you can watch 20-pound robots play?

DNA

DNA Test Startup Claims It Can Spot Embryos With Low Intelligence

"Right off the bat it raises all kind of questions about eugenics."

Developments

Doctors Announce First Ever “Fully Functional” Penis Transplant

Over a year later, the transplant remains successful.

SpaceX

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

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

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.

Science & Energy

Watch a Piece of Metal Refuse to Sink in Water

Where was this tech when they were building the Titanic?

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.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Alarmed That Teslas Beep Constantly in Drive-Thru Lanes

Apparently the cars' parking sensors go hogwild in drive-through lanes.

Future Society

Scientists: Human Extinction Is Extremely Likely

And people don't seem all that bothered by the possibility.

Future Society

This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

One easy trick to defeat the surveillance state.

Mars

This Scientist Wants to Gene-Hack Hybrid Humans to Survive Mars

He wants to splice tardigrade DNA into humans so they can survive Mars.

Moon

Here’s How Boeing is Planning to Get Astronauts to the Moon

Could Boeing's "Fewest Steps to the Moon" approach really get us to the Moon by 2024?

Mars

China Unveils Plan to Send Astronauts to Mars

"Sending astronauts there will give man better opportunities to look for traces of life on Mars."