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The U.S. military says it downed an Iranian drone using a new directed-energy weapon — but Iran is denying to incident even took place.
Drones

Instead of disabling a drone with bullets, it uses radio frequencies.

By Kristin Houser

Neither the government nor private tech companies have taken steps to protect the 2020 presidential election from being manipulated.
Hacking

Adam Schiff says companies like Facebook and Google haven’t prepared for the election.

By Dan Robitzski

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

"I reckon I’ve a 30 percent chance of succeeding."

By Kristin Houser

Henk Rogers wants to build a lunar spaceport so that all the billionaires building shiny new rockets actually have someplace to land.
Science & Energy

First he brought "Tetris" to America. Now he wants to bring America to the Moon.

By Dan Robitzski

India successfully launched their first ever lunar lander as part of its Chandrayaan-2 mission early Monday morning local time.
Moon

If all goes according to plan, India could become only the fourth country in the world to land a rover on the Moon.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has big plans for the Starship: a "Super Heavy" variant will feature up to 41 Raptor engines, 35 of which will be used as a booster.
Starship

This'll be the most powerful rocket ever built. Really.

By Victor Tangermann

The FaceApp aging filter may be a viral sensation right now, but earlier versions of the smartphone app were incredibly racist.
Future Society

Everyone's favorite face-aging app isn't actually that new, and it has a checkered past.

By Kristin Houser

The Chinese space station Tiangong-2 incinerated as planned during its scheduled decommissioning on Friday. Now there's video footage of the event.
Science & Energy

The space station Tiangong-2 is no more.

By Dan Robitzski

A new smart glove makes VR more immersive by making the virtual objects people touch feel as though they're really there.
Science & Energy

The glove helps you "feel" whatever you're grabbing in virtual reality.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they were able to make mice hallucinate by stimulating just 20 of their brain neurons, raising new questions about the human brain.
Science & Energy

And now they're wondering why humans aren't hallucinating all the time.

By Kristin Houser

A new subset of 7,500 unmodified photographs of natural objects is still able to completely throw AIs for a loop.
Artificial Intelligence

You don't have to modify a photo to fool an AI.

By Victor Tangermann

Research suggests that the Earth's core and mantle have been swapping tungsten and hafnium for the last 2.5 billion years.
Science & Energy

Remember that movie "The Core"?

By Dan Robitzski

A new lightweight knee brace generates electricity as people walk around, potentially charging medical devices or wearables.
Energy

The energy-generating knee brace could power medical devices or gadgets.

By Dan Robitzski

Just one inning into the "robot umpire" Trackman's major league debut, a human coach decided to pick a fight and got ejected from the game.
Robotics

He only lasted one inning before arguing about the strike zone.

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of musicians-turned-programmers used a John Coltrane record to train a neural network, and the result is provocative.
Artificial Intelligence

Here's what we can say for sure: it's unlike anything you've ever heard before.

By Jon Christian

A driverless bus collided with a 30-year-old woman in Vienna, Austria while traveling at 7.5 mph, according to Bloomberg.
Future Society

The self-driving shuttle trial is now on hold.

By Victor Tangermann

A major conservation organization just added over 7,000 more species to its endangered "Red List." The next stop on the list is extinction.
Climate Change

Thousands of species were just added to the endangered species "Red List."

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk tweeted that the company may test a hovering Roadster at the "end of next year" — keeping the dream of a floating Tesla alive.
Tesla

If this is a joke, Elon Musk still isn’t ready to come clean about it.

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk: Starhopper Survived Massive Fireball, Will Fly Again Soon
Off-World

SpaceX's prototype was "not bothered by a little heat."

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers have created a CRISPR alternative called LEAPER that they say is less likely to trigger an unwanted immune response.
Health & Medicine

It's less likely to trigger an unwanted immune system response, they claim.

By Kristin Houser