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The inward migration of a recently formed exoplanet is causing never-before-seen structures to form in its host star's protoplanetary disk.
Science & Energy

A Baby Exoplanet Is Creating Strange Dust Rings Around Its Star

Stunning images show how it's sculpting the dust into thin rings.

Surveillance cameras will only get more sophisticated and harder to avoid, so privacy expert William Webster calls for increased transparency.
Artificial Intelligence

Privacy Expert: Surveillance Cams Will Soon Be Impossible to Spot

Cameras will continue to grow smarter, smaller, and more ubiquitous.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just zipped really close to tiny asteroid Bennu to snap an incredibly detailed image.
NASA

NASA Photographs Asteroid That Could Smash Into Earth in 22nd Century

Say "cheese!"

DARPA wants contractors to develop an "air-breathing" hypersonic weapon. Now Raytheon is ready to test a missile that can travel 5x faster than sound.
DARPA

New Missile Lobs Nukes 5x Faster Than Sound

The missile comes from a new partnership between Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.

Amnesty International argues that Facebook took away a crucial tool for humans rights investigators without consulting them.
Future Society

Human Rights Group: Facebook Won’t Let Us Investigate War Crimes

Facebook disabled research tools Amnesty International says were crucial.

Twitch is suing the trolls that hijacked its platform to share extreme, sometimes illegal videos — even though it doesn't actually know who they are.
Future Society

Twitch Sues Anonymous Users for Streaming Porn, Murderous Rampage

Twitch wants to hold the trolls accountable — if it can figure out who they are.

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.
Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

"We live in a world where it's becoming harder to trust the digital information we consume."

YouTuber Simone Giertz bought a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck in her latest video.
Tesla

Watch This YouTuber Mod Her Tesla Model 3 Into a Pickup Truck

"I’m doing it because I really, really want this car. This is truly my dream car."

NASA head Jim Bridenstine announced that the SpaceX capsule explosion earlier this year has delayed the space agency's plans for crewed missions.
NASA

NASA Head: “No Doubt” SpaceX Explosion Delayed Flight Program

But he didn't say for how long.

With Near-Infinite Resources, Facebook Launches a Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency

With Near-Infinite Resources, Facebook Launches a Cryptocurrency

Facebook's huge cryptocurrency push, explained.

A pakistani politician unknowingly gave a press conference while a Facebook AR filter gave him cute cat ears during the livestream.
Virtual Reality

Politician Accidentally Rocks AR Kitty Ears During Livestream

The political process has never been quite so... adorable.

Through the IAU100 NameExoWorlds competition, every country on Earth has the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host star.
Science & Energy

Here’s Your Chance to Name an Exoplanet and Its Star

Sorry, but Planety McPlanetface won't make the cut.

NASA recently spotted a brand new crater on the surface of Mars. The impact left a massive blue smudge that scientists think might be caused by exposed ice.
Mars

NASA Discovers Brand-New Crater on Mars

The Red Planet got nailed sometime in the last three years.

A team of scientists have come up with a new way to minimize muscle loss for space travelers: testosterone plus plenty of exercise.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Want to Jack Astronauts Up On Steroids

The idea is to minimize muscle loss while traveling in space.

A new Comcast feature pairs with eye-tracking systems to allow customers to use their eyes like they would a remote control.
Future Society

TV Viewers Can Now Change the Channel With Just Their Eyes

Put down the remote.

A series of AI algorithms and neural nets turned Doom Guy's classic pixelated mug into an HD, nearly-photorealistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used a Neural Network to Draw Doom Guy in High-Res

A series of algorithms turned the famous pixelated face into an HD portrait.

A sleeping Tesla driver let Autopilot take the wheel for 30 miles on one of the busiest freeways in the U.S. — and his snooze appears deliberate.
Sleep

“Fully Sleeping” Tesla Driver Cruises 30 Miles on Autopilot

He used a device designed to trick Autopilot into thinking he was awake.

The European Space Agency just placed a piece of satellite in an extremely hot plasma wind tunnel to melt it into a ball of liquid metal.
Off-World

Watch a Satellite Piece Melt Into a Puddle of Metal

Can satellites survive reentry into Earth's atmosphere?

As global temperatures rise, the Arctic is melting away, releasing more greenhouse gases and revealing previously-frozen nuclear waste and diseases.
Nuclear Fusion

The Melting Arctic Is Releasing Poison, Disease and Nuclear Waste

As the melting ice exposes frozen bones, it also releases greenhouse gases, toxins, and ancient diseases.

A parody robot video imagines what might happen if a powerful bot decided to take revenge on the engineers testing its "robustness."
Boston Dynamics

Watch a Robot Take Revenge in Brutal Boston Dynamics Parody

Engineers might want to rethink how they test the "robustness" of their robots.