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A leaked IRS training document reveals how the agency may begin subpoenaing tech companies to find people's undisclosed cryptocurrency wallets.
Cryptocurrency

The agency is training auditors to find hidden crypto wallets.

By Dan Robitzski

225 mayors from across the United States signed a resolution to stop paying ransomware hackers who target their cities' digital infrastructure.
Bitcoin

There have been 22 government-crippling cyberattacks in 2019 alone.

By Dan Robitzski

Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's biggest pharmaceuticals, is set to begin human trials of an HIV vaccine in the U.S. and Europe.
Viruses

Can Big Pharma solve the HIV crisis?

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink, a company Elon Musk founded to link the human brain to computers, is finally ready to update the world on what it's been doing for two years.
Elon Musk

It's finally ready to let the world know what it's been doing for two years.

By Kristin Houser

Dairy-free products company Perfect Day Foods just created a creamy ice cream using genetically modified yeast — and without relying on cows.
Genetics

Is this the Beyond Burger of ice cream?

By Victor Tangermann

MIT's Baxter robot uses its ability to mimic human motions to tackle the viral #bottlecapchallenge in a decidely different way.
Robotics

It’s kinda hard to kick anything when you don’t have legs.

By Kristin Houser

A new therapy targeting the Cngb1 gene restored eyesight and regular neural connections between the eye and brain of experimental mice.
Health & Medicine

After treatments, there were only three blind mice. Seriously.

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Hayabusa-2, the Japanese space probe that landed on then bombed and asteroid, once more touched down to collect samples and take pictures.
Space

Hayabusa-2 just landed to collect more asteroid samples.

By Dan Robitzski

Donald Trump tweeted his distaste for cryptocurrency on Thursday, calling the digital assets "not money" and "based on thin air."
Bitcoin

"I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies," he tweeted.

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists figured out a simple way to create muscles that can lift 1,000 times their own weight: tightly coiled-up bamboo or silk fibers.
Robots and Machines

These special nanocomposite fibres can lift 1,000 times their own weight.

By Victor Tangermann

Former employee Guangzhi Cao admits to copying Tesla's Autopilot code — but denies accessing or making any use of the files after quitting.
Tesla

But he denies giving it to the company’s Chinese "clone."

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

“It’s safe to say we’re at a superhuman level and that’s not going to change.”

By Victor Tangermann

Nickelodeon is sending a batch of its iconic slime to the astronauts aboard the ISS to be used for experiments, which will be filmed and later broadcast.
International Space Station

The green goo is headed to space.

By Kristin Houser

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.
Physics

The cosmic monster could help test Einstein's theories of relativity.

By Dan Robitzski

News recently broke about worms that had allegedly been frozen in Arctic permafrost for 40,000 years. It turns out they're probably a lot younger.
Biology

A closer look at that "ancient worm" story raises new questions.

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Luminar has announceda production-ready lidar system for autonomous cars that costs just $500 — a huge decrease in price over existing systems.
Elon Musk

"Anyone relying on lidar is doomed," Musk said. "Doomed!"

By Kristin Houser

Protests broke out at an Amazon AWS Summit in New York City on Thursday. Tech workers and immigration activists demanded the company stop helping ICE.
Future Society

"Amazon Rekognition is primed for abuse in the hands of governments."

By Dan Robitzski

As the world continues to heat up from climate change, tens of thousands of important archaeological sites throughout the Arctic will be destroyed.
Climate Change

As the world heats up, history will rot away.

By Dan Robitzski

The diagnostic tools on experimental fusion reactors are too fragile for industrial-scale facilities. A new technique may be able to replace them.
Energy

A new technique lets scientists peer inside powerful fusion reactors.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.
Physics

"It's a major embarrassment for astronomy that we don't know if supermassive black holes merge."

By Dan Robitzski