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Right now, money is pouring into the drinkable weed industry, despite ever-changing regulations and a seemingly-nonexistant consumer base for weed drinks.
Future Society

Alcohol Companies Want to Make Disgusting Weed Drinks

The market for drinkable weed is all-but-nonexistent.

By Dan Robitzski

A new bill seeks to ban addictive website and social media features like autoplaying videos, endlessly-scrolling timelines, and other deceptive designs.
Future Society

Congress May Ban “Addictive” Website Features Like Autoplay Videos

"Big tech has embraced a business model of addiction."

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that extraterrestrial life might be possible after all on distant icy planets that conventionally are thought to be too cold.
Science & Energy

Study: Icy Planets Could Be Warm Enough to Harbor Life

Regions on Earth-like planets could reach temperatures above 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

By Victor Tangermann

The source of a major Capital One data breach is now in federal custody after authorities were able to track the hacker down via her own social media posts.
Hacking

Capital One Hacker Arrested After Bragging About Theft on Twitter

And on Slack. And on Meetup...

By Kristin Houser

The massive radiation leak that plumed over Eastern Europe in 2017 was just definitively traced back to a Russian nuclear facility.
Energy

Did Russia Cover Up a Radiation Leak 100x Worse Than Fukushima?

In 2017, Russia denied responsibility for the massive radioactive leak.

By Dan Robitzski

Up to 18 people will be part of the first ever human study in the U.S. that uses gene editing technique CRISPR inside the body to treat blindness.
Gene Editing

This Human Gene Editing Trial Will Use CRISPR to Treat Blindness

It's the first-ever study in the U.S. that uses CRISPR inside the body.

By Victor Tangermann

A Green Future is Possible for NYC Thanks to One Innovative Organization
Future Society

A Green Future is Possible for NYC Thanks to One Innovative Organization

A sustainable revolution is coming.

By Rachelle Dragani

Scientists found out that tiny flaws in circuitry that disrupt the flow of electricity can act as a digital fingerprint for electronic devices.
Science & Energy

New Research: Every Transistor Has a “Unique Quantum Fingerprint”

Tiny defects at the atomic scale make each device unique.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir hopes she's the next Moonwalker — but she isn't thrilled with NASA's emphasis on putting a woman on the Moon.
Moon

Retired Astronaut: Sending a Woman to the Moon “Sounds Like a Stunt”

NASA's former ISS commander isn't thrilled with the space agency's emphasis on gender.

By Kristin Houser

A new deep-sea robot called Aquanaut can "transform" between being an autonomous submarine and a mermaid-like humanoid robot.
Robotics

A New Deep-Sea Robot Can Shape-Shift Into an Autonomous Submarine

Aquanaut has both a humanoid and submarine form for deep-sea work.

By Dan Robitzski

By killing the WannaCry ransomware, British cybersecurity expert Marcus Hutchins may have saved himself from a decade in jail and a $500,000 fine.
Hacking

Hacker Who Killed WannaCry Sentenced to Time Served

His very major good deed helped him avoid 10 years in jail.

By Kristin Houser

Extremely bright objects that first appeared close to the Big Bang — theoretical objects called "dark stars" — could have seeded supermassive black holes.
Science & Energy

These Bizarre Objects May Have “Seeded” Supermassive Black Holes

Long-dead celestial objects called "dark stars" may have become today's supermassive black holes.

By Victor Tangermann

IBM just announced that it was making three of its artificial intelligence projects designed to help doctors and cancer researchers open-source.
Artificial Intelligence

IBM Just Made its Cancer-Fighting AI Projects Open-Source

Now other cancer researchers can use the IBM-built tools.

By Dan Robitzski

Watch footage of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 return to the site of where it bombed asteroid Ruyugu in order to scoop up rock samples.
Space

Watch a Japanese Spacecraft Grab Rock Samples From Tiny Asteroid

The spacecraft left a 10-meter crater when it bombed the asteroid's surface in April.

By Victor Tangermann

China recently published a white paper outlining its nuclear strategy, which describes how it will never strike first or nuke non-nuclear powers.
Future Society

China Promises to Never Use Nukes — Unless Another Country Does First

Nuclear experts were surprised.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are closer than ever to a cure for baldness, thanks to cloned stem cells and 3D-printed scaffolding that could let new hairs take root.
Health & Medicine

Baldness Could Soon Be Cured for Real — if You’re Rich

Stem cells and 3D printing are here to save your scalp.

By Dan Robitzski

Human contractors reviewing Siri audio for Apple hear people having private conversations or even engaging in sex acts, a whistleblower told The Guardian.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple Contractors Hear Sex Acts, Drug Deals in Siri Recordings

Identifying the people in the recordings "wouldn’t be hard," the whistleblower says.

By Kristin Houser

The Iranian government just gave its approval to crypto mining, but only if people get the right clearance and stay on top of their taxes.
Bitcoin

Iran Says You Can Mine — but Not Spend — Crypto

Crypto mining is an official industry in Iran, but the government won't assume the risk.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from Harvard and MIT's IBM Watson Lab have created an AI system that can detect if text or fake news was generated by another AI.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Can Help Humans Spot AI-Generated Fake News

Can they make a version for Facebook?

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists just built a new plasma-powered thruster that could vastly improve the capabilities of a small satellite conducting research in space.
Science & Energy

Princeton Unveils Plasma-Powered Satellite

The new thruster could push fleets of CubeSats farther into orbit.

By Dan Robitzski