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New artificial intelligence and virtual reality tools are making it easier for doctors and their patients to fit new prosthetic limbs.
Virtual Reality

Doctors Are Using AI and VR to Improve People’s Prosthetic Limbs

Fitting a new limb is less fraught a process with virtual tools.

By Dan Robitzski

A Michigan town is upgrading its high school with features designed to minimize fatalities in the event of a school shooting.
Future Society

This $48M School Was Designed to Minimize Mass Shooting Deaths

It includes walls for students to hide behind and a special lockdown system.

By Kristin Houser

Over 419 million database records on hundreds of millions of Facebook users, including their phone numbers, were stored in an unprotected server.
Future Society

Phone Numbers of 400M Facebook Users Were Publicly Available

The data was stored on a server that wasn't even password-protected.

By Victor Tangermann

Sophia the Robot and Evan Rachel Wood sit in dramatic lighting
Robots and Machines

From Futurism Studios, “SophiaWorld” is Westworld Meets Reality

By Jacob Banas

Elon Musk: “A Big Rock Will Hit Earth Eventually”
Science & Energy

Elon Musk: “A Big Rock Will Hit Earth Eventually”

Musk: "And we currently have no defense."

By Victor Tangermann

An Illinois resident had died from a mysterious respiratory illness related to vaping, and officials still aren't certain as to its cause.
Chemistry

Officials Announce First Death From Vaping-Related Illness

A mystery disease is sweeping the country — and experts are seemingly no closer to pinpointing its cause.

By Kristin Houser

A newly proposed type of space elevator called the Spaceline could theoretically be built out of materials that exist today, hinting at easier space travel.
Moon

These Researchers Want to Run a Cable From the Earth to the Moon

It's a space elevator concept that could actually work.

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube Kids is using basic math problems to ensure that young children don't access content that they're not supposed to be watching.
Future Society

YouTube’s Plan to Protect Your Kids from Watching ISIS Snuff Films: Math Problems

A revolution in cybersecurity.

By Victor Tangermann

A BMW covered in Vantablack, a coating that absorbs nearly all light, is about to go on display at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Advanced Transport

BMW Unveils a Car Coated in Vantablack

See it — sort of — at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

By Kristin Houser

Johns Hopkins announced a new privately-funded research center to develop psychedelics-based medical treatments for conditions like depression and PTSD.
Health & Medicine

The First Center for Psychedelics Research is Opening in the US

Johns Hopkins doctors will pursue treatments for conditions like PTSD.

By Dan Robitzski

PayPal has suspended an account used by the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to collect donations from supporters.
Future Society

PayPal Suspends Ku Klux Klan’s Donation Account

The hate group just got the boot.

By Kristin Houser

The doctor behind the young blood transfusion clinic Ambrosia is back with a mysterious new venture — a transfusion clinic called Ivy Plasma.
RX and Medicine

Doctor Behind Failed “Anti-Aging” Blood Clinic Tries Again

We tried to ask him some questions, but he was very evasive.

By Dan Robitzski

A non-profit group called Privacy International found that mental health-focused websites in Europe are selling user data to third-party advertisers.
Data Privacy

Mental Health Sites Sell Your Psychological Data to Advertisers

"It is exceedingly difficult for people to seek mental-health information and for example take a 'depression test' without countless third parties watching."

By Dan Robitzski

First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes
Developments

First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes

It's now against the law to market vapes as "clean," "safe," or "healthy" — at least in Michigan.

By Kristin Houser

A doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley built tiny flapping-wing and hopping robots that could one day explore distant planets.
Robots and Machines

These Tiny “Fruit Fly Bots” Could Explore Distant Planets

Tiny flying and hopping microrobots could fare much better on Mars than rovers.

By Victor Tangermann

A software company is making construction robots that learn to excavate and assemble structures by imitating human movements and may someday work in space.
Robotics

Robots Could Build Martian Settlements by Imitating Humans on Earth

Construction bots are learning to work by mirroring people's movements.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX said it didn't do anything to avoid a satellite collision because a software bug prevented it from knowing the risk of a crash had increased.
SpaceX

SpaceX Blames Bug for Decision Not to Avert Satellite Collision

It didn’t even know the chance of a collision had increased.

By Kristin Houser

Amazon is working on a system called Orville that would let people pay for things by waving their hands in front of a scanner.
Future Society

Amazon Wants You to Pay for Things With Your Handprint

Amazon is testing the new biometric system on its own employees first.

By Dan Robitzski

A sociological research survey of AI chatbots' capabilities found that they could empathize with each other and tell jokes among themselves.
Artificial Intelligence

Surprise Research: AIs Can “Sympathize With Each Other”

Chatbots empathized, joked, and even tried to seduce each other.

By Dan Robitzski

Italian sports car maker Lamborghini just revealed the Sián, its first ever hybrid. But this isn't a Prius — far from it.
Advanced Transport

Lamborghini Debuts First Hybrid and It’s an Absolute Beast

This extremely rare $3.6 million hypercar is definitely not a Prius.

By Victor Tangermann