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Stanford researchers have developed a "quantum microphone" that is so sensitive, it can measure individual particles of sound, otherwise known as "phonons."
Quantum Physics

“Sound, at the quantum level, crackles.”

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla executive revealed that the number one reason Tesla customers visit service centers is to learn how to use Autopilot.
Tesla

More Teslas on the road means more people that don't know how Autopilot works as well.

By Victor Tangermann

Chris Wetherell, the guy who built Twitter's "retweet button" compared his work to handing an infant a loaded gun and setting them loose.
Future Society

"We might have just handed a four-year-old a loaded weapon."

By Dan Robitzski

Pelaton's Automated Following system lets a human-driven "lead" truck serves as the guide for an autonomous "follow" truck.
Advanced Transport

A clever system: whatever the "lead" truck does, the "follow" truck copies.

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, scientists created a liquid magnet. But they're still figuring out how the magnet, created by accident, works.
Science & Energy

They're still sorting out how it works.

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that C. auris evolved the ability to infect and kill humans thanks to climate change, specifically rising global temperatures.
Climate Change

It evolved the ability to withstand higher temperatures — like those of the human body.

By Kristin Houser

An HIV implant that delivers preventative medications proved effective and well-tolerated in an initial trial, according to its developer.
Health & Medicine

The implant was well-tolerated and effective in a small trial.

By Kristin Houser

A letter signed by 24 prominent scientists called on the U.N. to declare wartime destruction of the environment a war crime.
Environment

The scientists want extra protections for wildlife living in warzones.

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just announced a recall of Allergan breast implants, linking the manufacturer to hundreds of cases of a rare cancer.
Cancer

Now they're recalling the implants.

By Dan Robitzski

In a new piece for Quartz, professor David Carroll argues that the U.S. is a surveillance state not entirely unlike China.
Future Society

Both nations are using tech to control their minority populations.

By Kristin Houser

The gold, silver, and bronze found in Olympic medals given out during the 2020 Tokyo Games was extracted from old smartphones and other electronics.
Robots and Machines

The Tokyo 2020 committee received nearly 79,000 tons of donated gadgets.

By Dan Robitzski

A new experiment used VR to trick people's brains into thinking they inhabited spider or bat bodies. People reported feeling like the body was theirs.
Virtual Reality

VR makes it easy to trick the brain into thinking it has a non-human body.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers call for a ban on aspartame, the artificial sweetener better known as NutraSweet, until regulators conduct a new review of its health effects.
Health & Medicine

Step away from the diet soda.

By Kristin Houser

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 satellite has successfully unfurled its massive boxing ring-sized solar sail on Tuesday.
Off-World

The boxing ring-sized sail will use pressure exerted by the Sun's radiation as a way to move through space.

By Victor Tangermann

Presidential hopeful John McAfee is missing, and according to his campaign manager, unless he's found, "secreted data" will be released.
Data Privacy

"This is not a publicity stunt," he tweeted.

By Kristin Houser

Silicon Valley startup Bumblebee Spaces suspends furniture from the ceiling to make tiny, espensive apartments feel more spacious.
Future Society

Here's a horrible idea: make your tiny apartment seem bigger by suspending your bed on the ceiling.

By Dan Robitzski

A number of millennial farmers in the U.S. are making more money talking about farming on their YouTube channels than from farming itself.
Future Society

Don't forget to like and subscribe to your local farmer.

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco may provide safe "housing" in the form of a parking lot for people who live inside their vehicles and need to avoid tickets and fines.
Future Society

As soaring rents force people onto the street, many are left trying to avoid fines and tickets.

By Dan Robitzski

Airbus has unveiled a new airplane design inspired by birds of prey, and it hopes the wild-looking concept will inspire the next generation of engineers.
Advanced Transport

They hope the cartoonish design will get kids excited about engineering.

By Kristin Houser

A decade after Google was caught wiretapping unencrypted WiFi networks with its Street View cars, a court ordered the stolen data deleted.
Data Privacy

Google just agreed to delete all the WiFi data its Street View cars collected

By Dan Robitzski