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Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.
Facial recognition

Algorithms learn to figure out which high rollers will part with the most cash.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers achieved quantum teleportation within a diamond, an achievement that could shape how we share and store sensitive information in the future.
Quantum Physics

The achievement could shape how we share and store sensitive information in the future.

By Kristin Houser

New lab-grown mini brains are the most advanced yet, spontaneously forming into neural circuits resembling the cerebral cortex and mirroring brain activity.
Brain

The organelles can even mimic some complex neural activity.

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced plans to build its third private undersea internet cable, expected to begin connecting Europe and Africa in 2021.
Science & Energy

The company claims "Equiano" will improve the continents' online infrastructure.

By Dan Robitzski

SpinLaunch, a company that specializes in a space katapult launch system, just signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU).
Off-World

Slinging satellites into space wouldn't require rockets or propellants.

By Victor Tangermann

A new molecule latches onto uranium isotopes, making them easier for the kidneys to guide out of the bodies of people suffering from uranium poisoning.
Health & Medicine

It removed four times more uranium from their kidneys than existing treatments.

By Kristin Houser

As part of project Dragonfly, NASA is planning to send a small spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan, a moon with an extremely dense atmosphere.
Moon

The Dragonfly mission will send a tiny rotorcraft to the ocean world to look for signs of life.

By Victor Tangermann

Contrails given off by airplanes contribute more to global warming than we thought. By 2050, they'll warm the planet twice as much as the plane's emissions.
Environment

The heat trapped by contrails will triple by 2050.

By Dan Robitzski

The White House plans to host a social media summit on July 11, but so far, none of the expected invitees have commented on the event.
Future Society

"We should sue Facebook. Think Mark Zuckerberg will come to my party?" – Trump, probably

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk just revealed that the base model Roadster will accelerate from 0-60 mph in just over two seconds "before adding rocket thruster option."
Advanced Transport

You'll have to pay extra to cross the two-second threshold.

By Victor Tangermann

By stacking two layers of graphene, physicists produced entirely new quantum states that they think might help overcome a major hurdle to quantum computers.
Graphene

The "supermaterial" has a super power we didn't know about.

By Kristin Houser

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.
Facial recognition

There's a growing backlash against using facial recognition for law enforcement.

By Victor Tangermann

A new set of equations can make sense of the physics behind turbulence, letting scientists better understand weather and the ways galaxies form.
Physics

As it tumbles outward, turbulence tends to fall into a uniform pattern.

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.
Artificial Intelligence

The event was packed with promotions for Amazon Web Services.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk took to Twitter to compare an Earth-to-Earth trip aboard SpaceX's powerful Starship rocket to a ride on Disney's Space Mountain roller coaster.
Elon Musk

Please keep your hands inside the spacecraft at all times.

By Kristin Houser

By embedding engineered bacteria into the fingers of a robot arm, researchers have created a biohybrid bot that can "taste" for certain chemicals.
Robotics

Robots are becoming better equipped to respond to the world around them.

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Special Forces are developing a device that can detect a person's unique cardiac signature using an IR laser from a distance.
Science & Energy

The device can detect tiny vibrations caused by heartbeats from over 650 feet away.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of Michigan found widespread traces of naturally-occurring dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in the mammalian brain.
Brain

The same substance is traditionally used by indigenous people for hallucinogenic episodes.

By Victor Tangermann

Six weeks after Indian authorities promised all of the debris created by their missile test was burned up in the atmosphere, 41 out of 400 pieces remain.
Future Society

"That kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight."

By Victor Tangermann

JD Composites used more than 600,000 recycled plastic bottles to construct this beachfront home in Meteghan River, Nova Scotia.
Future Society

More than 600,000 recycled plastic bottles went into making the 3-bedroom abode.

By Kristin Houser