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Mercurial Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeting that the upcoming vehicle will be "closer to an armored personnel carrier from the future."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Tesla Is Making An “Armored Personnel Carrier”

Tesla's truck sounds like the perfect ride for a cyberpunk dystopia.

By Jon Christian

Image via Pixabay/Kevin Sanderson/Tag Hartman-Simkins
Science & Energy

NASA Engineer Says New Thruster Could Reach 99% Speed of Light

It takes advantage of a loophole in Einsteinian physics.

By Jon Christian

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.
Future Society

After Deaths, Amazon Lands on List of Most Dangerous Employers

"It seems Amazon values money way more than life. If they did their job right, I wouldn’t have had to bury my little brother.”

By Natalie Coleman

A browser game called "Aim and Shoot" pits the player against human-hunting neural networks that learn to become increasingly deadly.
Artificial Intelligence

In This Browser Game, Your Opponents Are Neural Networks

"Aim and Shoot" pits you against the robot uprising — and your opponents get smarter every time they die.

By Dan Robitzski

Los Angeles is working with TechniSoil Industrial to repave a road using a mixture of recycled plastic and existing asphalt.
Science & Energy

Los Angeles Is Building a Road From Recycled Plastic Bottles

And it should last 8 to 13 times longer than a typical road.

By Kristin Houser

A new study says some screen time is good for young kids, but the scientific community has yet to reach anything close to a consensus on the topic.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Can’t Agree About Kids and Screen Time

Is it good for kids? Bad? No one seems to know.

By Kristin Houser

Temperatures are so high in Qatar, the nation has begun air conditioning its open-air sports stadiums, malls, and markets.
Climate Change

Qatar Is Air Conditioning the Outdoors to Battle 120-Degree Heat

"If you turn off air conditioners, it will be unbearable."

By Kristin Houser

Scientists argue that they figured out how to spot wormholes, should any of the theoretical cosmic portals actually exist.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Finally Figured Out How to Spot Wormholes

One easy trick for faster-than-light travel.

By Dan Robitzski

A future space war won't look like "Star Wars." Instead it'll be almost imperceptible on the planet's surface.
Future Society

This Is What a Space War Would Look Like, According to Experts

Ready to turn Earth's orbit into an absolute hellscape?

By Victor Tangermann

In a distant star system, two fully-formed exoplanets crashed into each other, leaving an unusual trail of space dust and debris in their wake.
Science & Energy

Two Exoplanets Collided, Leaving a Trail of Planetary Gore

Two exoplanets recently crashed into each other, obliterating both and leaving a giant trail of dust and debris.

By Dan Robitzski

The companies developing lab-grown meat won’t stop at just beef and chicken — they’ll likely cultivate exotic meats, too.
Future Society

These Startups Want to Feed You Lab-Grown Giraffe, Elephant Meat

Would you eat an endangered animal burger if it was grown in a lab?

By Kristin Houser

A newly discovered monster galaxy fills a gap in astronomers' understanding of galactic formation soon after the birth of the universe.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Find Evidence of A “Monster Galaxy” Like No Other

They're comparing the discovery to spotting a Yeti's footprints.

By Kristin Houser

A Pentagon report predicts that American infrastructure and the U.S. military could collapse within 20 years due to the ravages of climate change.
Military

Pentagon Report Predicts Collapse of US Military Within 20 Years

The world's largest greenhouse gas emitter may not survive our changing climate.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.
Moon

NASA’s Collaborating With Caterpillar on Moon Mining Machines

Self-driving vehicles could mine rocks from the Moon.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla says vehicles with Autopilot engaged were involved in one accident for every 4.34 million miles driven during the third quarter of 2019.
Tesla

Tesla: Autopilot Is Nearly 9 Times Safer Than the Average Driver

But the system has a leg up on its human competition.

By Kristin Houser

Raytheon just delivered a functional laser cannon to the Air Force, designed specifically to take down swarms of hostile drones.
Future Society

The Air Force Just Got a Brutal New Laser Cannon

It's like a bug zapper for enemy aircraft.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers have spotted a rocky planet with three suns, which greatly increases its chance of having its own atmosphere.
Science & Energy

This Rocky World With Three Suns May Have an Atmosphere

This super-Earth is one of the best examples yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook COO insists that the company doesn't run political ads, honest or not, for the money. It's all for the important "political discourse."
Future Society

Facebook: Misleading Political Ads Are Important “Discourse”

Sheryl Sandberg insists disinformation "is the price of free speech."

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft researchers have developed DreamWalker, a new VR system that lets a user walk a route in the real world while looking at virtual scenery.
Virtual Reality

New Microsoft Tech Lets You Use VR While Walking Outside

Microsoft envisions a future in which you spend a lot of time in virtual reality — even your morning commute.

By Kristin Houser

With Google's quantum computer superiority, we can look at 10 million billion states at every one time and solve complex problems much faster than before.
Quantum Physics

Here’s Why Quantum Supremacy Matters

Google's watershed quantum computing achievement explained.

By Victor Tangermann