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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.

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook has removed an event called "Storm Area 51" with some 2 million Facebook users who have RSVP'd, claiming it violated community standards.
Future Society

The two million event goers won't be able to Naruto-run past this.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has a major wild hog problem at its Kennedy Space Center, with upwards of 12,000 of the animals terrorizing the campus.
NASA

Probably more than 30-50, though.

By Kristin Houser

A new study reveals that cosmic radiation is even more dangerous than we thought. Mice exposed to Mars-journey levels developed dementia-like symptoms.
Science & Energy

This is bad news for any would-be Mars colonists.

By Dan Robitzski

The newly launched AI Bar system uses facial recognition technology to ensure bar patrons are served in the proper order.
Artificial Intelligence

Leave it to the Brits to use AI to try to improve queueing.

By Kristin Houser

Facebook has announced it's collaborating with researchers to build a real-time brain decoding device that could help patients with neurological damage.
Meta

Facebook really wants to get inside your head.

By Victor Tangermann

A massive space rock called Asteroid 2019 OK just flew right past Earth reaching a distance of only 73,000 kilometers away from our planet's surface.
Science & Energy

In other words, the Earth just avoided an asteroid disaster of catastrophic proportions.

By Victor Tangermann

Sony claims its new wearable air conditioner, the Reon Pocket, can drop your body's surface temperature by 23 degrees Fahrenheit.
Robots and Machines

It can reportedly drop your body's surface temp by 23°F.

By Kristin Houser

Chinese vlogger "Your Highness Qiao Biluo" was ousted to be a 58-year-old woman with a different appearance when her face filtering software glitched.
Future Society

Is it okay to use tech to make yourself look young?

By Victor Tangermann

Financial aggregation services are giving hackers everything they need to access and empty wealthy targets' bank accounts.
Science & Energy

A couple easy tricks make it easy for hackers to drain your bank account.

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crashed onto the surface of the Moon on April 11 spilling thousands of dehydrated "water bears" or tardigrades.
Science & Energy

And they may still be alive.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has launched a SmallSat Rideshare Program, an initiative designed to let smaller satellite operators split the cost of launches.
SpaceX

Space has never been this cheap.

By Kristin Houser

A fertility clinic's 30-minute operation is making it possible to delay menopause — and all the nasty health side effects that come with it.
Health & Medicine

For about $10k, you can now press pause on menopause.

By Kristin Houser

In response to two mass shootings, Trump says social media companies should spot mass shooters before they commit and violent crimes.
Future Society

He wants them to make a system for spotting red flags.

By Dan Robitzski

No, Violent Video Games Don’t Cause Mass Shootings
Future Society

Blaming violent media for mass shootings is a gross oversimplification.

By Brad Jones

A new CGI system can create a fully-rendered video game character based on a performer's motion capture data in real time.
Robots and Machines

The tech cuts rendering times down to near-instantaneous.

By Dan Robitzski

Israel believes soldiers might control the "tank of the future" using a joystick like the one that comes with an Xbox gaming console.
Robots and Machines

Gaming hardware is making its way into the military.

By Kristin Houser

Fed up with the challenges of living with diabetes, a biohacker built himself an artificial pancreas to automatically manage his insulin pump.
Prosthetics and Devices

A biohacker turned an insulin pump into an artificial organ.

By Dan Robitzski

Some Elon Musk followers are suggesting that the CEO's jokey Twitter feed could be his way of foreshadowing the debut of a new Tesla vehicle.
Elon Musk

Or maybe he's just making jokes about bee emojis.

By Jon Christian

Franky Zapata's second attempt to cross the English Channel on his flying hoverboard was a success — and now he's turning his attention to his flying car.
Advanced Transport

"It has to come out before the end of the year."

By Kristin Houser