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Elon Musk spent $100 million to buy seven homes in Los Angeles' pricey Bel-Air neighborhood in recent years, along with an estate near Tesla's HQ upstate.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Keeps Buying Mansions in a Particular Neighborhood

One neighbor thinks he's trying to connect them with an underground tunnel.

By Dan Robitzski

Over the last two years, almost 6,000 Uber passengers reported sexual assault. While the company has taken steps to stop it, it also downplays the problem.
Future Society

Uber Gets Thousands of Sexual Assault Complaints per Year

The ride-sharing company has a miserable year in review.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a New Scientist exclusive, the first ever pig that had a small proportion of Its cells derived from a monkey was born in a lab in China.
Developments

First-Ever “Pig-Monkey Chimeras” Born in Chinese Lab

The goal is to grow human organs inside animals.

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered a giant exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf — the extremely dense remains of an exploded dead star.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Dead Star Roasting Its Giant Exoplanet

"Such a system has never been seen before."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists observed surprisingly complex behavior from a single-celled organism that strongly resembles active decisionmaking.
Biology

This Single-Celled Creature Is Weirdly Smart

The tiny critter appears to be making complex decisions.

By Dan Robitzski

SoftBank Robotics has opened the Pepper PARLOR, a cafe where robots work alongside human staff to serve and entertain customers.
Robotics

Cafe Staffed by Robots Opens in Japan

Bots take customers' orders, provide entertainment, and even clean the cafe's floors.

By Kristin Houser

British clothing design firm Vollebak devised a futuristic hoodie that could help astronauts sleep while drifting through space inside a cramped spacecraft.
Space

This Futuristic Space Hoodie is a “Self-Contained Microhabitat”

The cocoon-like design was inspired by the protective exoskeleton of the woodlouse.

By Victor Tangermann

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, announced that it partnered up with Qualcomm to develop new augmented reality (AR) glasses.
Virtual Reality

The Company Behind Pokémon Go Is Making AR Glasses

Niantic is collaborating with Qualcomm on a new augmented reality wearable.

By Dan Robitzski

A measles outbreak in Samoa has left 60 people dead, the vast majority of them children under the age of four, prompting a nationwide vaccination campaign.
Developments

Nation’s Entire Gov Shuts Down to Focus on Measles Outbreak

Thousands are ill and dozens of children have already died.

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers have found that they could teach test subjects how to manipulate their own alpha brain waves, thereby improving attention at a given task.
Neuroscience and Brain

MIT Says New Technique Lets You Hack Your Own Brain Waves

By suppressing alpha waves in their brain, subjects were able to improve their focus.

By Victor Tangermann

23Mofang, a Chinese DNA test startup offering similar reports to 23andMe, makes scientifically-questionable claims in its results, raising privacy concerns.
Gene Editing

Chinese 23andMe Knockoff Gives Different Results From 23andMe

"It's a gimmick. It's so ridiculous."

By Dan Robitzski

An Uber office in Rhode Island had separate bathrooms for the company's drivers and its employees, a move Uber says it "regrets."
Advanced Transport

Uber Admits It Didn’t Let Drivers Use Employee Bathrooms

"This was a mistake and we regret it."

By Kristin Houser

An American biotech firm claims it can slow or reverse human aging through gene-hacking, but the entire premise is scientificially questionable.
Gene Editing

Gene-Hacking Company Says It Can Slow Your Aging for $1 Million

"I think of this as a study where many things could go wrong."

By Dan Robitzski

A Roman Catholic priest launched a Vatican-themed Minecraft server that he hoped would be a haven from online toxicity. It was attacked immediately.
Future Society

Trolls Immediately Attack Vatican Minecraft Server

Luckily, the priest who launched the server had a trick up his sleeve.

By Dan Robitzski

The chief of India's space agency claimed their orbiter had spotted Vikram, the perished lunar lander, months before NASA announced it had found it.
Future Society

India’s Space Chief: We Found Our Lander Months Before NASA

"We had already declared that on our website, you can go back and see."

By Victor Tangermann

Music website Genius is suing Google and its lyrics partner, LyricFind, for $50 million for allegedly copying lyrics directly from its site.
Future Society

Genius Sues Google for Allegedly Stealing Its Music Lyrics

Genius set a trap to catch Google, and Google fell right into it.

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.
Science & Energy

19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

They throw a wrench in the theories for how galaxies are formed.

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese court has sentenced researcher He Jiankui to three years in prison for creating the world's first gene-edited babies.
Gene Editing

Experts Horrified by Leaked CRISPR Baby Study

The paper accompanying the controversial experiment went unpublished — until now. 

By Kristin Houser

DARPA-funded scientist Christoffer Heckman argues that some sort of new guidelines are needed to keep engineers from building autonomous weapons.
DARPA

DARPA Scientist: Engineers Must Stop Making Autonomous Weapons

"But I am also concerned about the risks that new technologies pose, especially if they are exploited by malicious people."

By Dan Robitzski

Four new papers reveal new findings from NASA's Parker Solar Probe that could rewrite the way we understand the way stars are born, evolve, and die.
Science & Energy

Scientists Mystified: Sun’s Magnetic Field Appears to be Flipping

"Getting data at the source is already revolutionizing our understanding of our own star."

By Victor Tangermann