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Italian sports car maker Lamborghini just revealed the Sián, its first ever hybrid. But this isn't a Prius — far from it.
Advanced Transport

Lamborghini Debuts First Hybrid and It’s an Absolute Beast

This extremely rare $3.6 million hypercar is definitely not a Prius.

By Victor Tangermann

The National Transportation Safety Board found that a Tesla driver who crashed into a fire truck was eating and drinking with Autopilot on before the crash.
Tesla

A Tesla Driver Was Eating, Drinking During Autopilot Crash

Autopilot still doesn't mean your Tesla can fully drive itself.

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities in Hong Kong are spraying crowds of protestors with canons full of blue dye to make them easy to identify for later arrest.
Future Society

Police Are Spraying Protesters With Dye to Round Them up Later

Protestors found a way around facial recognition tech. Now they have to deal with blue dye.

By Kristin Houser

Inventor Richard Browning donned his Iron Man-style jet suit to deliver a letter to the Isle of Wight — and broke a personal flight record in the process.
Advanced Transport

Watch the Iron Man-Style Jet Suit Inventor Fly to an Island

And break a personal flight record in the process.

By Kristin Houser

Apple was just granted three new patents for the Apple Watch, one of which involves taking an uncomfortably-close look at the skin on your wrist.
Robots and Machines

Instead of Fingerprints, Future Apple Watches May Scan Your Wrist

A new patent does away with the usual biometrics.

By Dan Robitzski

Using a deepfake imitating the voice of its parent company's CEO, a scammer convinced an energy executive to transfer $243,000 to a third-party account.
Artificial Intelligence

A Scammer Reportedly Used a Deepfake to Steal $243,000

You gotta give 'em points for creativity!

By Dan Robitzski

In a first-person view video uploaded to Twitter by Russia's space agency today, humanoid robot Fedor can be seen manning an electric drill.
Robotics

Watch Russia’s Gun-Toting Robot Use a Power Drill on the ISS

Let's hope he doesn't drill a hole in the wall!

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese deepfake app Zao replaces famous actors with iPhone users' faces, and though popular, it has quickly raised serious privacy concerns.
Artificial Intelligence

New Deepfake App Lets You “Act” in Popular Movies, TV Shows

It's sparked a wave of controversy among privacy experts.

By Kristin Houser

The Gateway Foundation wants to build a luxury orbital space hotel based on plans drawn up by NAzi scientist Wernher von Braun in the 1950s.
Off-World

A Startup Wants to Launch a Space Hotel Named After a Nazi

They say it'll be like a luxurious cruise ship. And for some reason it'll be named after an infamous Nazi rocket scientist.

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of researchers associated with the U.S. Air Force want to give the codes to launch nuclear bombs to an artificial intelligence (AI).
Artificial Intelligence

Air Force-Affiliated Researchers Want to Let AI Launch Nukes

Will an AI reminiscent of "Dr. Strangelove" deter the enemy from mounting a nuclear attack?

By Victor Tangermann

Orion Span's proposed space hotel, the Aurora Space Station, might be ready within two years. But its cost jumped $3 million since April.
Off-World

Upcoming Space Hotel to Be “Like a Small Cruise Ship”

26 people have paid the $80,000 deposit for a stay.

By Dan Robitzski

Shortly after SpaceX's Starhopper completed its test launch last week, Elon Musk speculated that the next iteration would be twice as wide.
Starship

Elon Musk: “Next Gen” Craft Could Be Twice the Size of Starship

Starship 2.0 could be 240 meters tall — dwarfing the Washington Monument.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch took to Twitter to share terrifying photos of Hurricane Dorian that they'd snapped from the ISS.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Snap Terrifying Photos of Hurricane Dorian

"You can feel the power of the storm when you stare into its eye from above."

By Kristin Houser

A new gel could someday help people regrow tooth enamel, potentially erasing tooth decay and replacing artificial fillings.
Developments

Scientists Figured out How to Regrow Teeth

This could revolutionize dentistry.

By Dan Robitzski

To avoid a collision with one of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, the ESA was forced to perform a first-of-its-kind "collision avoidance manoeuvre."
ESA

SpaceX Wouldn’t Move Its Satellite to Avoid a Collision, Says ESA

SpaceX forced the ESA to do something it'd never done before.

By Kristin Houser

Several national governments are using country-wide internet shutoffs and censorship to squash internal dissent and censor their critics.
Future Society

Governments Are Shutting off the Internet to Squash Dissent

Governments are cracking down on protests by turning off the internet.

By Dan Robitzski

Fitbit partnered with Singapore to provide free fitness trackers to people in exchange for a monthly fee and access to their health data.
Future Society

Fitbit Will Provide Free Smartwatches in Singapore

But they have to share all of their data with the government.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomy experts managed to glean much more from a spy satellite image of an Iranian rocket base tweeted by President Donald Trump last week.
Future Society

Trump Tweet Accidentally Reveals Secrets About US Spy Satellites

The tweeter-in-chief strikes again.

By Victor Tangermann

A ransomware attack left approximately 400 dentist offices hacked and without access to their computer files, and most are still trying to regain it.
Future Society

Bizarre Ransomware Attack Targets True Villainy of World: American Dentists

"It had a devastating effect on our office."

By Kristin Houser

In light of an impending "monster storm," the City of Miami requested all e-scooters to be removed from its streets by noon today to avoid a "scooternado."
Future Society

Miami Requests E-Scooters to be Removed to Avoid “Scooternado”

Flying scooters should be the least of Floridians' worries right now.

By Victor Tangermann