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SpaceX is gearing up for the last flight test of its Starhopper test vehicle of its upcoming Starship spacecraft at its Boca Chica test site in Texas.
SpaceX

SpaceX Starhopper Will Fly for the Last Time Tonight

Local authorities warn a test failure could result in broken windows.

By Victor Tangermann

Don't fly a drone with a weapon attached to it, stupid, warned the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in a notice released publicly last week.
Drones

FAA Reminder: Don’t Fly a Drone With a Weapon Attached to It

A drone with a flamethrower could cost you $25,000 in civil penalties.

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian company is building a geothermal energy project so benign, its CEO claims you could "literally put it in someone's backyard."
Geothermal

This Geothermal Energy System Could Be Built in a Backyard

"It's just a much more benign system..."

By Kristin Houser

Backers for Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency are reportedly considering pulling their support in the face of increased scrutiny and regulation.
Cryptocurrency

Backers for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency May Jump Ship

They face the choice of supporting Libra or complying with regulators.

By Dan Robitzski

A working quantum radar device uses low-energy microwaves to spot objects that remain invisible to conventional radar technology.
Devices

Scientists Built a Working “Quantum Radar” Device

The device uses entangled microwaves.

By Dan Robitzski

A Danish initiative imagines 3D printers that can walk, fly, and swim, navigating the world autonomously to repair roads, reefs, and high rises.
3D Printing

Designers Want to Give 3D Printers Legs, Let Them Wander the Earth

Could roving 3D printers repair the planet's damaged environment?

By Kristin Houser

The first large-scale study of a polypill showed the cheap, once-daily medication was able to prevent cardiovascular disease.
RX and Medicine

This Cheap “Polypill” Could Reduce Your Risk of a Heart Attack

A new study put an 18-year-old theory to the test — and it passed.

By Kristin Houser

With the Amazon Rainforest burning away and sequestered carbon being released, the global environment is rapidly approaching the point of no return.
Climate Change

Scientists Warn Of “Cascading System Collapse” in Amazon Rainforest

The destruction of the Amazon could be a "doomsday bomb," causing planet-wide environmental destruction.

By Dan Robitzski

Governments should step in to prevent tech companies from developing malicious, evil, super-human AI, writes tech expert Wim Naudé.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert: Governments Must Step in to Prevent Evil, Superpowered AI

Primarily by preventing a "winner takes all" scenario for whomever figures it out.

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese first that creates cloned pets says it's considering ways to use artificial intelligence to clone animals memories.
Science & Energy

Chinese Firm Wants to Give Cloned Pets the Original’s “Memories”

It can already clone cats' bodies. Next, it wants to clone their minds.

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that other exoplanets could feasibly serve as a better host for life than Earth does, if they fit certain criteria.
Science & Energy

Earth Might Not Be the Most Hospitable Planet out There

It's technically possible other worlds are better suited for life.

By Dan Robitzski

An Austrian team of scientists are proposing to build an airship, otherwise known as a zeppelin, that's ten times as big as the Hindenburg.
Advanced Transport

These Scientists Want to Bring Back Zeppelins in a Big Way

Their proposed cargo airship is ten times bigger than the Hindenburg.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine believes that thermal nuclear propulsion technology would be a game-changer for space exploration.
NASA

Head of NASA: Nuclear Propulsion Could Be “Game-Changer”

If the tech works, it could halve the travel time to Mars.

By Dan Robitzski

Two astronauts spent six and a half hours outside of the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday installing a new commercial spacecraft docking port.
Off-World

Astronauts Add Docking Bay For Private Spaceships to Space Station

Spacecraft such as Boeing's Starliner or SpaceX's Crew Dragon could make use of it soon.

By Victor Tangermann

Dealers are using Snapchat and other social media platforms to sell illegal guns — and it's getting them caught by federal agents.
Future Society

Dealers Are Using Snapchat to Sell Illegal Guns

And officials are using the snaps to track them down.

By Kristin Houser

Self-driving car companies are benefitting from cheap Venezuelan labor as they compile mountains of annotated training data for their AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Self-Driving Car Companies Depend on Cheap Labor From Venezuela

People in Venezuela are annotating the endless training data for vehicles' AI.

By Dan Robitzski

A study found that Instagrammers who post a lot of selfies are perceived as less adventurous, less successful, and more lonely than "posie" posters.
Future Society

Your Selfies Make You Look Like a Lonely Loser, Study Finds

It doesn't matter what you're doing in the photo, either.

By Kristin Houser

Newly-released photos on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu reveal rocks that appear similar to ancient meteorites that crash-landed on Earth.
Science & Energy

Rocks on a Distant Asteroid Resemble Those on Earth

Astronomers released new images of Ryugu's surface.

By Dan Robitzski

A life-sized humanoid robot named Fedor began its journey from Russia to the International Space Station on Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket.
Off-World

Russia Just Sent Its First Robot to Space

The humanoid held a Russian flag in its hand during launch.

By Kristin Houser

The Air Force built a robot called ROBOpilot that can take off, fly, and land existing planes without help from a human pilot.
Drones

Instead of New Drones, the Air Force Built a Plane-Piloting Robot

The Air Force is stretching the definition of "autonomous" vehicles.

By Dan Robitzski