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Hong Kong protesters are reportedly shining high-powered laser beams at surveillance cameras to confuse facial recognition technology.
Facial recognition

Hong Kong Protesters Use Lasers to Block Facial Recognition Tech

By confusing the cameras, they're protecting their identities.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers claim they have made significant progress in developing a blood test that can detect Alzheimer's up to 20 years before any symptoms appear.
Health & Medicine

New Blood Test Could Detect Alzheimer’s 20 Years Before Symptoms

The earlier doctors can detect signs of this "silent disease," the better.

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon has 25 mass surveillance balloons that can monitor and track individual vehicles as they travel across states.
Future Society

The Pentagon Is Launching Mass Surveillance Balloons Over America

The balloons can track multiple vehicles at once.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers just 3D printed functional components of the human heart using a specialized printer that's capable of printing suspended hydrogels.
3D Printing

Researchers 3D Print Functional Components of Human Heart

Yet another step towards being able to 3D print functional organs.

By Victor Tangermann

A Cyberpunk Noir Short Film Shows Us What Happens When Tech Goes Skin Deep
Future Society

A Cyberpunk Noir Short Film Shows Us What Happens When Tech Goes Skin Deep

This sci-fi thriller is a startling prophesy of biohacks-to-come.

By Catherine Mullen

In newly released documents, the FBI announced that Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theorists pose a domestic terrorism threat.
Future Society

FBI: Conspiracy Theorists Are a Domestic Terrorism Threat

FBI documents specifically mention QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theorists.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are growing the first human-monkey hybrid embryos in a Chinese laboratory, according to a new story in Spanish newspaper El País.
Science & Energy

Scientists Are Reportedly Growing Human-Monkey Embryos in China

But their research has yet to be peer-reviewed or published.

By Kristin Houser

A new roach-like robot out of UC Berkely can withstand the weight of a person stepping on it and scuttle at a speed of 20 body lengths per second.
Robotics

This Roach-Sized Robot Keeps Going Even After You Step on It

This bot may be tiny, but it's also tough.

By Kristin Houser

Before his controversial gene-hacking research was condemned, He Jiankui wanted to open a designer baby clinic in China or Thailand.
Health & Medicine

That “CRISPR Baby” Scientist Wanted to Open a Designer Baby Clinic

He Jiankui hoped to gene-hack babies for the rich and powerful.

By Dan Robitzski

Before we make first contact with any aliens out there, we should figure out whether we're willing to kill them to further our scientific knowledge.
Future Society

Scientist: We Should Be Prepared to Kill Aliens

Here's a brutal reality: to understand aliens, we're probably going to have to kill and dissect them.

By Dan Robitzski

A new crypto platform called SpankPay wants to become the go-to payment service for porn and adult entertainment, circumventing more hostile financiers.
Science & Energy

Finally, Porn Is on the Blockchain

SpankChain wants to be the go-to payment service for adult content.

By Dan Robitzski

Burger King is adding the Impossible Whopper to the menu at all of its U.S. locations, a sign that plant-based meat is catching on in America.
Future Society

Burger King’s Impossible Whopper Is Going Nationwide on August 8

America is ready to bite into plant-based meat.

By Kristin Houser

Physicists built a "mini-sun" that's helping them study solar winds and why the Sun occasionally ejects blasts of plasma into space.
Physics

Scientists Built a Ball of Plasma They Call a “Mini-Sun”

It's easier than studying the real Sun up close.

By Dan Robitzski

Lyft e-bikes are catching fire in San Francisco, prompting the company to pull the city's entire fleet untl it can figure out what's going on.
Advanced Transport

Lyft Suspends SF E-Bikes Because They’re Bursting Into Flames

City supervisor: "The last thing you need is a flaming bike as you’re riding down the street."

By Kristin Houser

Andrew Yang says it's too late to stop some of the effects of climate change, and we should all migrate uphill to avoid floods.
Climate Change

Yang’s Climate Plan: “Start Moving Our People to Higher Ground”

"We are too late. We are 10 years too late."

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental HIV vaccine that showed promise in past studies is about to be tested on thousands of people from around the world.
Health & Medicine

Thousands of People Are About to Test an HIV Vaccine

3,800 people will be vaccinated in September.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have found that a distant exoplanet is so drawn by the gravitational pull from its host star, it's being deformed into the shape of a football.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Found a Hellish Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football

Make no mistake: this planet is basically Hell.

By Victor Tangermann

The Tesla Dog Mode feature has a serious flaw that is putting pets' lives in danger, but thankfully, the company is already working on a fix.
Tesla

A Glitch in Tesla’s Dog Mode Is Trapping Pups In Hot Cars

But Elon Musk says a fix is on the way.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at DeepMind have found that their machine learning AI could alert medical health professionals of future kidney injury 48 hours early.
Artificial Intelligence

This “AI Doctor” Can Predict Acute Kidney Conditions 2 Days Early

Will machines one day alert doctors of life-threatening conditions way ahead of time?

By Victor Tangermann

During the closest encounter we've ever had with the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe took an impressive picture of the solar corona.
Off-World

Here’s the Closest Picture We’ve Ever Taken of the Sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe had to fly pretty damn fast to snap this one.

By Victor Tangermann