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With Near-Infinite Resources, Facebook Launches a Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency

Facebook's huge cryptocurrency push, explained.

By Victor Tangermann

A pakistani politician unknowingly gave a press conference while a Facebook AR filter gave him cute cat ears during the livestream.
Virtual Reality

The political process has never been quite so... adorable.

By Dan Robitzski

Through the IAU100 NameExoWorlds competition, every country on Earth has the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host star.
Science & Energy

Sorry, but Planety McPlanetface won't make the cut.

By Kristin Houser

NASA recently spotted a brand new crater on the surface of Mars. The impact left a massive blue smudge that scientists think might be caused by exposed ice.
Mars

The Red Planet got nailed sometime in the last three years.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have come up with a new way to minimize muscle loss for space travelers: testosterone plus plenty of exercise.
Health & Medicine

The idea is to minimize muscle loss while traveling in space.

By Victor Tangermann

A new Comcast feature pairs with eye-tracking systems to allow customers to use their eyes like they would a remote control.
Future Society

Put down the remote.

By Kristin Houser

A series of AI algorithms and neural nets turned Doom Guy's classic pixelated mug into an HD, nearly-photorealistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

A series of algorithms turned the famous pixelated face into an HD portrait.

By Dan Robitzski

A sleeping Tesla driver let Autopilot take the wheel for 30 miles on one of the busiest freeways in the U.S. — and his snooze appears deliberate.
Sleep

He used a device designed to trick Autopilot into thinking he was awake.

By Kristin Houser

The European Space Agency just placed a piece of satellite in an extremely hot plasma wind tunnel to melt it into a ball of liquid metal.
Off-World

Can satellites survive reentry into Earth's atmosphere?

By Victor Tangermann

As global temperatures rise, the Arctic is melting away, releasing more greenhouse gases and revealing previously-frozen nuclear waste and diseases.
Nuclear Fusion

As the melting ice exposes frozen bones, it also releases greenhouse gases, toxins, and ancient diseases.

By Dan Robitzski

A parody robot video imagines what might happen if a powerful bot decided to take revenge on the engineers testing its "robustness."
Boston Dynamics

Engineers might want to rethink how they test the "robustness" of their robots.

By Kristin Houser

Samsung tweeted a warning reminding TV owners to "prevent malicious software attacks on your TV by scanning for viruses on your TV every few weeks."
Internet Of Things

Are smart TVs really a security risk?

By Victor Tangermann

Security experts detect trillions of attempted hacks every day, many of which target political systems and elections using cheap, readily-available tools.
Science & Energy

The "scale is almost hard to imagine."

By Dan Robitzski

Former "Mythbusters" co-host Adam Savage just showed off an incredible-looking, 3D-printed titanium Iron Man suit — and yes, it can fly.
Robots and Machines

If Tony Stark was real and he wanted to build an Iron Man suit, "this is precisely how he would do it."

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers from Xenotime, which previously took down a Saudi oil plant, are now attempting to breach American power plants with their malware Triton.
Hacking

Xenotime has been probing U.S. utilities for cybersecurity weaknesses.

By Dan Robitzski

A patient who received a fecal transplant died after the procedure — prompting the FDA to put a halt to a number of fecal transplant trials.
Health & Medicine

The donated stool contained E. coli bacteria.

By Kristin Houser

NVIDIA researchers have released an online demo for GauGAN, an AI-powered app that transforms crudely drawn images into photorealistic landscapes.
Artificial Intelligence

Ready to channel your inner Bob Ross? Check out this site.

By Kristin Houser

The ACLU published a new report warning about the rise of AI-driven surveillance systems, which could strip away our privacy and cause overpolicing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI may make video surveillance even more frightening.

By Dan Robitzski

In an apparent dig at Elon Musk, scientists from Russia sent a tiny toy car with a cutout of Roscosmos' Dmitry Rogozin in the driver's seat into space.
Off-World

And they put a cutout of Roscosmos' director-general in the driver's seat.

By Kristin Houser

During a closed-doors audience at the Vatican, the Pope told oil executives that we need to find an energy solution that doesn't sacrifice the environment.
Energy

We need to avoid "perpetrating a brutal act of injustice" against future generations.

By Victor Tangermann