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Contractors who moderate flagged posts for Facebook describe hellish and hostile working conditions while reviewing the worst of the internet.
Future Society

Facebook Moderators Are Dying at Their Desks

Facebook moderator: "I think Facebook needs to shut down."

A bizarre, futuristic contests invited space agencies and astronomers from around the world to find the best way to colonize the Milky Way.
Space

Astronomers Model How Humanity Could Colonize the Milky Way

A contest imagined a distant future where humanity could expand outward.

In a landmark move, San Francisco just became the first U.S. city to ban e-cigarettes last night. The bill could go into effect in 30 days.
Health & Medicine

San Francisco Moves to Ban Sale of E-Cigarettes

"It’s really smart politics but dubious public health."

A team of French physicists claim to have created metallic hydrogen. Scientists say this experiment is more credible than past, overhyped attempts.
Physics

Scientists May Have Created Metallic Hydrogen—For Real this Time

Metallic hydrogen could be the superconductor breakthrough we've been hoping for.

Facebook will now help French courts identify users suspected of spreading hate speech on the platform, a deal it hasn't made with any other nation.
Future Society

Facebook to Identify Hate Speech-Spouting Users for France

The social media giant has never made such a deal before.

Michael Manga, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, has a new theory as to what may be causing marsquakes.
Science & Energy

New Theory: Marsquakes Could be Caused by Frozen Groundwater

We could be experiencing marsquake-like tremors here on Earth as well.

Sydney became the first major Australian city to declare a state of emergency to prevent the worst effects of climate change on Monday.
Climate Change

Sydney Is in a State of Emergency to Fight Climate Change

The goal: 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.

Israeli startup Eviation Aircraft made a big splash at the Paris Air Show last week with a prototype of their $4 million commercial electric airliner.
Advanced Transport

We’ve Never Been This Close to Making Electric Flight a Reality

This nine-seater electric plane could cut fuel costs by a magnitude of ten.

Eating Crap as a Teen Can Permanently Affect Men’s Fertility
Health & Medicine

Eating Crap as a Teen Can Permanently Affect Men’s Fertility

Your after-school snack could prevent you from having kids later in life.

Someone — likely Chinese state actors — hacked over ten cell service companies around the world and monitored people's activity for seven years.
Science & Energy

Someone Hacked Global Telecom Companies. Experts Blame China.

Security research firm Cybereason wouldn't give any names during the investigation.

By analyzing the oldest known minerals from Mars, researchers think they've discovered a 700 million year period during which Martian life could've thrived.
Science & Energy

Mars Had a Chance to Grow Life 4.4 Billion Years Ago, Study Shows

They've identified a 700-million-year period when Martian life could've thrived.

An MIT postdoctoral student has a strange new suggestion for finding extraterrestrial life: scan the skies for phosphine, a foul-smelling, toxic gas.
Exobiology

Weird New Theory: Aliens Could Be Using Toxic Gas as Defense

Scanning the skies for "outrageously foul-smelling" gases could lead us right to them.

Facebook's pivot to blockchain and its new Libra cryptocurrency could sow the seeds of the company's destruction, argues fintech expert Marc-David Seidel.
Blockchain

Fintech Expert: Libra Could Be Facebook’s Downfall

Libra may legitimize the very technology that diminishes Facebook's authority.

Google has expanded its "Be Internet Awesome" program to include media literacy activities designed to help kids tell if something is "fake news."
Future Society

Google Is Trying to Teach Kids How to Spot Fake News

The death of fake news might just be the birth of a generation that’s immune to it.

A team of German scientists have figured out a way to grow tobacco plants that contain 99.7 percent less nicotine. It could help millions of smokers quit.
Health & Medicine

Gene-Edited, Less Addictive Tobacco Could Help You Quit Smoking

Are low-nicotine cigarettes the answer to getting millions to quit smoking?

Later this week, NATO officials are expected to announce the a strategy for militarizing outer space as individual nations ramp up weapons programs.
Off-World

NATO Plans to Launch Its Strategy for Militarizing Space This Week

NATO officials cite growing concerns over space aggression.

Dutch startup Lightyear has unveiled the Lightyear One prototype, a solar car it claims has a longer single-charge range than any other car on the market.
Advanced Transport

Startup Unveils World’s First Long-Range “Solar Car”

It gets 80 more miles per charge than the market-leading Tesla Model S.

A physicist came up with models that support the idea that a 2D universe could still feasibly support life, poking holes in the anthropic argument.
Physics

New Theory: A 2D Universe Could Host Living Creatures

The research weakens the anthropic argument for life.

The practice called "surveillance scoring" of changing how much retailers are charging consumers based on algorithms and collected data might be illegal.
Future Society

Retailers Are Judging Consumers By Using Secret “Surveillance Scores”

The scores determine how much a company will charge you.

Toyota's basketball robot CUE3 just set the Guinness World Record for "most consecutive basketball free throws by a humanoid robot (assisted)."
Robotics

Watch Toyota’s Basketball-Playing Robot Set a World Record

It easily surpassed its first goal of 1,000 consecutive shots.