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A new AI tool that can turns selfies into fully-rendered characters in the video game "Justice Online." Apparently it's been used 1 million times.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Turns Your Selfie Into a 3D Video Game Character

Researchers solved the pressing crisis of character customization taking too long.

Alienstock, a free music festival that spun off the popular "Storm Area 51" Facebook event, has been canceled, founder Matty Roberts announced.
Future Society

Amid Drama, “Storm Area 51” Founder Cancels Tie-In Music Festival

"We are not interested in... a FYREFEST 2.0."

Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed in his new book that Taylor Swift threatened to sue the company over "Tay" the Twitter chatbot-turned-Nazi.
Artificial Intelligence

Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened Microsoft Over Racist Chatbot

Apparently "Tay" was too close to Swift's name for comfort.

Facebook has announced a trio of new initiatives designed to prevent suicide and self-harm amongst the platform's many users.
Future Society

Facebook Announces New Efforts to Prevent Suicide and Self-Harm

The social network has a trio of new initiatives in the works.

As brain-computer interface and neural implant technology improves, the Royal Society argues we may soon be able to communicate telepathically.
Brain Implants

Scientists: Brain Implants Could Essentially Make Us Telepathic

"Not only thoughts, but sensory experiences, could be communicated from brain to brain."

A new video shows a Tesla driver asleep at the wheel while his car, presumably with Autopilot mode enabled, cruises down the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Sleep

Watch a Tesla Driver Cruise Down the Highway Completely Asleep

"Wow, I was just driving next to somebody who was completely asleep on the Mass Pike."

That Chardonnay in your glass comes from wine grapes which carry a fascinating genetic quirk. Researchers at the University of California...
Science & Energy

Scientists Sequence Genomes of Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon

The data cache could explain varieties in everything from wines to types of heirloom tomatoes.

Researchers at MIT invented a chameleon-like "reprogrammable ink" that allows you to "paint" colors onto a surface using a projector and UV light.
Future Society

New Tech Can Switch Your Car’s Paint Job “Like a Chameleon”

This special spray could allow you to change the color of your shoes every morning.

Virgin Galactic plans to start selling tickets to space next year. By 2023, it will launch a shuttlefull of passengers every 32 hours.
Off-World

Virgin Galactic’s Plan: Send Tourists to Space Every 32 Hours

If every flight is fully booked, more than 3,000 people would launch into space in the next few years.

In 2011, Elon Musk and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein both attended an exclusive "Billionaires' Dinner" in Long Beach, Calif.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Got a Posh “Billionaires’ Dinner” With Jeffrey Epstein

Tesla declined to answer questions about Musk rubbing shoulders with the convicted sex offender.

A team of scientists on board the International Space Station have successfully mixed cement in the microgravity of space.
Off-World

For the First Time Ever, Astronauts Mix Cement in Space

Concrete could open a lot of doors for constructing habitats in space.

General John Raymnd, head of the newly-formed U.S. Space Command, clarified that he'll seek to first deter space combat but would still be ready to fight.
Space

Head of US Space Command: Space Is “Clearly a Warfighting Domain”

What could possibly go wrong?

Google has banned ads hawking unproven or experimental medical treatments and therapies, including many stem cell and gene therapies.
Future Society

Google Finally Bans Dangerous Miracle Cure Ads

It's taking a stand against sellers of bogus health treatments.

Scientists are suggesting that the methane-filled lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan could have been formed by massive explosions.
Science & Energy

Huge Explosions May Have Formed Lakes on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Pockets of warming nitrogen gas could've blown massive craters into the moon's surface.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to ban flavored vaping products in the state as part of a push to keep residents from falling victim to vape lung.
Chemistry

New York’s Governor Wants to Ban Flavored Vapes

And if he could, he says he would ban all vaping products.

Shawn Rosenberg, a prominent psychologist at the University of California, Irvine told the crowd at a recent meeting of the International Society of Political Psychologists that "democracy is devouring itself," Politico reports.
Future Society

Prominent Researcher Predicts That Democracy Is Going to Collapse

"In sum, the majority of Americans are generally unable to understand or value democratic culture, institutions, practices or citizenship in the manner required."

On Friday, state broadcaster CCTV aired footage of traffic police using a drone to tell a scooter rider to put on his helmet, according to a newly published South China Morning Post story.
Drones

Police Drone Caught Barking Orders at Chinese Driver

Are nagging, hovering drones the future of the surveillance state?

A survey of 14 well-known comets traced them all back to the same point in space and time, suggesting that the comets of our solar system are all related.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Birthplace of All Comets Could Explain Life on Earth

All 14 comets he studied share an origin story.

A state-owned communications watchdog in Russia claims that Google, Facebook, and YouTube interfered with a local election by allowing political ads.
Future Society

Russia Accuses Facebook of Meddling In Its Election. Seriously.

Ironic.

A deepfake video uploaded to YouTube explores what it would have looked like if Will Smith had accepted to take on the role of Neo in "The Matrix."
Future Society

Watch a Deepfake That Casts Will Smith as Neo In “The Matrix”

We really dodged a bullet.