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Ex-beverage firm Long Island Iced Tea — now a blockchain company — is being investigated by the FBI for insider trading and securities fraud.
Blockchain

The FBI is Investigating Long Island Iced Tea’s Blockchain Pivot

Was the beverage company involved in a pump-and-dump scheme?

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of orbiting white dwarfs are challenging what astronomers thought they new about the binary systems — and more insights are on the horizon.
Science & Energy

Two Dead Stars Are Orbiting Each Other’s Corpses Incredibly Fast

And that's just one of several strange things about the duo.

By Kristin Houser

The Air Force successfully launched the largest satellite into space yet. It will spend the next year learning about dangerous cosmic radiation.
Science & Energy

The US Air Force Launched the Largest Uncrewed Structure in Space

This epic piece of space tech is the size of a football field.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bragged that his company could reach the Moon within two years. But NASA CFO Jeff DeWit isn't buying it.
Moon

NASA Official: SpaceX’s Moon Chances Are “Slim”

CFO Jeff DeWit doesn't believe SpaceX will beat NASA to the Moon.

By Dan Robitzski

Inventor Franky Zapata's attempt to cross the English Channel on his flying hoverboard ended in failure on Thursday when he fell into the water.
Advanced Transport

Flying Hoverboard Inventor Fails to Fly Across English Channel

"I lost balance, I fell in the water."

By Kristin Houser

Tesla lost $408 million this fiscal quarter, bringing their year-to-date losses up to $1 billion. It's not a good sign for the scrappy automaker.
Tesla

Tesla Has Already Lost $1 Billion This Year

The company announced a $408 million loss this quarter alone.

By Dan Robitzski

A flame shot out from the top of SpaceX's Starhopper during what was supposed to be its first flight test on Wednesday, leading SpaceX to abort the test.
SpaceX

SpaceX Aborts Starhopper’s First Flight Test After Fiery Start

That's not supposed to happen.

By Kristin Houser

Stanford researchers have developed a "quantum microphone" that is so sensitive, it can measure individual particles of sound, otherwise known as "phonons."
Quantum Physics

This “Quantum Microphone” Can Listen to a Single Sound Particle

“Sound, at the quantum level, crackles.”

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla executive revealed that the number one reason Tesla customers visit service centers is to learn how to use Autopilot.
Tesla

People Are Going to Tesla Service Centers Just to Learn About Autopilot

More Teslas on the road means more people that don't know how Autopilot works as well.

By Victor Tangermann

Chris Wetherell, the guy who built Twitter's "retweet button" compared his work to handing an infant a loaded gun and setting them loose.
Future Society

The Guy Who Invented the Retweet Is Filled With Regret

"We might have just handed a four-year-old a loaded weapon."

By Dan Robitzski

Pelaton's Automated Following system lets a human-driven "lead" truck serves as the guide for an autonomous "follow" truck.
Advanced Transport

New “Automated Following” Tech Lets One Driver Control Two Trucks

A clever system: whatever the "lead" truck does, the "follow" truck copies.

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, scientists created a liquid magnet. But they're still figuring out how the magnet, created by accident, works.
Science & Energy

Scientists Accidentally Created a Liquid Magnet

They're still sorting out how it works.

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that C. auris evolved the ability to infect and kill humans thanks to climate change, specifically rising global temperatures.
Climate Change

Climate Change May Have Prepared This Superbug to Kill Humans

It evolved the ability to withstand higher temperatures — like those of the human body.

By Kristin Houser

An HIV implant that delivers preventative medications proved effective and well-tolerated in an initial trial, according to its developer.
Health & Medicine

This Tiny Implant Could Prevent HIV for an Entire Year

The implant was well-tolerated and effective in a small trial.

By Kristin Houser

A letter signed by 24 prominent scientists called on the U.N. to declare wartime destruction of the environment a war crime.
Environment

Scientists: Harming the Environment Should Be a War Crime

The scientists want extra protections for wildlife living in warzones.

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just announced a recall of Allergan breast implants, linking the manufacturer to hundreds of cases of a rare cancer.
Cancer

Most People With This Rare Cancer Got a Specific Breast Implant

Now they're recalling the implants.

By Dan Robitzski

In a new piece for Quartz, professor David Carroll argues that the U.S. is a surveillance state not entirely unlike China.
Future Society

Professor: US Surveillance State Is a Lot Like China’s

Both nations are using tech to control their minority populations.

By Kristin Houser

The gold, silver, and bronze found in Olympic medals given out during the 2020 Tokyo Games was extracted from old smartphones and other electronics.
Robots and Machines

2020 Olympic Medals Will Be Made Out of Recycled Smartphones

The Tokyo 2020 committee received nearly 79,000 tons of donated gadgets.

By Dan Robitzski

A new experiment used VR to trick people's brains into thinking they inhabited spider or bat bodies. People reported feeling like the body was theirs.
Virtual Reality

Bizarre New VR Makes People Feel Like They’re Spiders

VR makes it easy to trick the brain into thinking it has a non-human body.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers call for a ban on aspartame, the artificial sweetener better known as NutraSweet, until regulators conduct a new review of its health effects.
Health & Medicine

Aspartame Still Hasn’t Been Proven Safe to Eat, Say Scientists

Step away from the diet soda.

By Kristin Houser