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Hotel giant Marriott announced in April that it's planning to construct a 26-story skyscraper in New York City in just 90 days.
Robots and Machines

Like LEGOs. Really big LEGOs.

Astronomers just found the remains of a dead star, one of the oldest in the universe, buried inside of another still-living red giant.
Science & Energy

Yo dawg, I heard you like stars.

Canada is accepting proposals for ways to remove space junk, the dangerous bits of old satellites and rockets currently orbiting the Earth.
Off-World

The nation is currently accepting proposals for removal systems.

AlterEgo lets people silently communicate with a digital assistant that gives them information, translates foreign language, or interacts with smart tech.
Robots and Machines

AlterEgo is getting more sophisticated.

Russia's Ministry of Defense just released the first footage of its Sukhoi-S70 Okhotnik-B (Hunter-B) unmanned combat air vehicle taking flight on August 3.
Drones

A silent killer.

Subway has announced a partnership with Beyond Meat to test out a new sandwich called the Beyond Meatball Marinara Sub in participating restaurants.
Future Society

Another one bites the meat alternatives.

SpaceX's Ms. Tree boat was able to catch a Falcon 9's nose cone, thereby preventing the fairing from splashing down into the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX

Got your nose!

The US Army is Building a Supercomputer Inside a Storage Container
Computers

It could give soldiers a tactical edge in combat, especially in remote locations.

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 has officially raised its orbit by just shy of two miles using its solar sail.
Space

Solar sails could one day allow us to travel beyond the solar system.

Engineers built a robot tail called Arque that could help people balance, lift heavy loads, or at least make VR games more immersive.
Prosthetics and Devices

Paging Dr. Octopus.

The CDC has ordered a military germ lab to "cease and desist" all research involving high-level disease-causing materials after a failed safetly inspection.
Military

Handle with care!

Uber and Lyft funded a traffic study that showed that ride-hailing apps are responsible for a big chunk of traffic in major cities.
Advanced Transport

It's hard for Uber and Lyft to discredit a study that they funded.

Scientists from the University of Leeds have created 2D gold — and they think it could improve everything from electronics to water purification systems.
Science & Energy

"This work amounts to a landmark achievement."

Astronomers Just Spotted One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever
Science & Energy

It's so big, it could fit the entire solar system inside of it many times over.

Sony researchers have created an AI drummer that can listen to a song and produce a "musically plausible" kick drum beat for it.
Artificial Intelligence

Just don't expect them to be anything too wild.

If global temperatures reach two degrees Celsius about pre-industrial levels, 30,000 additional people will die in Chinese cities every year.
Climate Change

Climate change comes with a very real death toll.

Researchers have created chimeric mice with human brain cells in the hope that the animals could revolutionize Alzheimer's research.
Neuroscience and Brain

These rodents could be just what we need to finally cure Alzheimer's.

Japan is putting nearly $1 billion into moonshot projects like cyborg tech, human hibernation, and recycling its industrial waste.
Future Society

Human augmentation is high on the country's to-do list.

A flying car created by Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp. and startup Cartivator just hovered 10 feet off the ground for a full minute.
Advanced Transport

There's a reason the car is in a massive cage.

After this weekend's mass shooting in Texas, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare decided to cancel its service to the online forum 8chan.
Future Society

The forum was a popular stomping ground for mass shooters.