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IBM recently patented a new kind of smartwatch that unfolds eight times to form a full-sized touchscreen wearable tablet.
Future Society

IBM Patented a Goofy-Looking Watch That Folds Into a Tablet

Finally, my "Spy Kids" cosplay is complete.

NASA just turned off a heater on the Voyager 2 space probe in order to conserve dwindling energy supplies as the spacecraft explores interstellar space.
Space

The Voyager Probes Are Running Low on Power

NASA turned off Voyager 2's heater to conserve energy.

Scientist have created an AI glass that can recognize images without any need for sensors, circuits, or even a power source.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create an AI From a Sheet of Glass

And it doesn’t need electricity to work.

Worrying reports of Samsung Galaxy Fold review units showing small bulges and broken displays are coming in.
Devices

Review Units of Samsung’s Folding Phone Are Breaking Almost Immediately

Things are not looking good for the $1980 smartphone.

When the ESA launches LISA, a constellation of gravitational wave-detecting satellites, it will likely be able to spot new exoplanets across the galaxy.
Science & Energy

Gravitational Wave Detector May Find Exoplanets in Nearby Galaxies

The tool could probe binary star systems for undiscovered worlds.

We need to create a World Carbon Bank to incentivize developing nations to go green, according to Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff.
Climate Change

Economist Calls for World Carbon Bank to Fight Climate Change

It could incentivize nations to transition to greener energy sources.

Next year, astronauts on the International Space Station will attempt to bake cookies in space. It's part PR stunt, part lesson in zero-g manufacturing.
Science & Energy

Astronauts Are Planning to Bake Cookies on the Space Station

That's just how the cookie crumbles.

Chameleon Theory provides an alternative explanation for galaxy formation and the universe's expansion from Einstein's General Relativity.
Energy

New “Chameleon Theory” Could Explain Dark Energy, How Galaxies Formed

Chameleon Theory provides a possible alternative to General Relativity.

Officials from the FBI, ICE, and other government agencies are using facial recognition tech to scan databases of DMV photos.
Artificial Intelligence

The FBI Is Scanning DMV Photos of Law-Abiding Americans

"It’s really a surveillance-first, ask-permission-later system."

A small fire broke out today at SpaceX's facility in Florida that's focused on bringing the Starship rocket to life, as TechCrunch reports.
Starship

Fire Breaks Out at SpaceX Starship Facility in Florida

Someone streamed the fire live on Twitch.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that it'll take a "massive effort" to create the Autopilot software needed to facilitate safe autonomous driving.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: It’ll Take “Massive Effort” to Create Safe Autopilot

And fully autonomous cars are going to cost way, way more.

A robot arm called the Jaco can attach to the wheelchairs of people with limited upper mobility and help them better manage everyday tasks.
Robotics

This Robot Arm Can Help Wheelchair Users Drink Coffee, Open Doors

The $35,000 device makes everyday tasks more accessible.

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov says he's found five couples who want him to use CRISPR to ensure their offspring do not inherit their deafness.
Prosthetics and Devices

Five Couples Agree to CRISPR Their Babies to Avoid Deafness

But are the benefits of hearing worth the risks of gene editing?

It sounds like a joke, but members of Congress and their staff are getting together Wednesday to play the video game "Rocket League."
Future Society

Members of Congress Are Gonna Play “Rocket League” on Twitch

Politicians are gamers now — or, at least, that's what they want you to believe.

As LightSail 2 orbits Earth and explores the cosmos, people back home can track the progress of the solar sail and monitor its status through a new website.
Solar Power

A New Website Tracks the Just-Launched Solar Sail Spaceship

It updates every time LightSail 2 sends a transmission.

A giant asteroid the size of a car just showed up on the University of Hawaii's survey telescopes mere hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

Massive Asteroid Explodes Above Puerto Rico Mere Hours After Detection

Despite little warning this time, we're getting better at spotting asteroids.

Alphabet-owned subsidiary Sidewalk Labs just released a massive 1,524 page document outlining its plans for a $1.3 billion 190 acre smart city in Toronto.
Future Society

Alphabet-Owned Company Unveils Plans for Smart City

What was meant to be a 12-acre plot redevelopment just turned into something far more ambitious.

Federal agents used postage bought online to track down two dark web drug dealers selling methamphetamine they marketed as Adderall.
Future Society

Feds Bust Dark Web Drug Dealers After They Buy Postage Online

They really should've just taken a trip to the post office.

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.
Off-World

Space Rocks Near Neptune Could Reveal the Solar System’s Origins

A new simulation reveals how trans-Neptunian Objects could have formed.

Buzz Aldrin: Stephen Hawking Said We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars Yet
Mars

Buzz Aldrin: Stephen Hawking Said We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars Yet

The late astrophysicist told Aldrin we need to "colonize the Moon first."