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First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes
Developments

First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes

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

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

These Tiny “Fruit Fly Bots” Could Explore Distant Planets

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

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

Robots Could Build Martian Settlements by Imitating Humans on Earth

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

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

SpaceX Blames Bug for Decision Not to Avert Satellite Collision

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

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 Wants You to Pay for Things With Your Handprint

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

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

Surprise Research: AIs Can “Sympathize With Each Other”

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

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

Lamborghini Debuts First Hybrid and It’s an Absolute Beast

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

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

A Tesla Driver Was Eating, Drinking During Autopilot Crash

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

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

Police Are Spraying Protesters With Dye to Round Them up Later

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

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

Watch the Iron Man-Style Jet Suit Inventor Fly to an Island

And break a personal flight record in the process.

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

Instead of Fingerprints, Future Apple Watches May Scan Your Wrist

A new patent does away with the usual biometrics.

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

A Scammer Reportedly Used a Deepfake to Steal $243,000

You gotta give 'em points for creativity!

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

Watch Russia’s Gun-Toting Robot Use a Power Drill on the ISS

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

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

New Deepfake App Lets You “Act” in Popular Movies, TV Shows

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

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

A Startup Wants to Launch a Space Hotel Named After a Nazi

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

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

Air Force-Affiliated Researchers Want to Let AI Launch Nukes

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

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

Upcoming Space Hotel to Be “Like a Small Cruise Ship”

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

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

Elon Musk: “Next Gen” Craft Could Be Twice the Size of Starship

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

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

NASA Astronauts Snap Terrifying Photos of Hurricane Dorian

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

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

Scientists Figured out How to Regrow Teeth

This could revolutionize dentistry.