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Oakland, California's city council just voted unanimously to ban all municipal uses of facial recognition tech within its borders.
Future Society

The City of Oakland Votes to Ban Facial Recognition

That makes it the third U.S. city to do so.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's Neuralink announced that it's almost ready for human experimentation. People on Twitter want to offer up their brains.
Elon Musk

People Are Begging Elon Musk to Drill Holes in Their Skulls

Actual tweet: "TAKE MY BRAIN ELON"

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics is back in the news promising that it will start mass-producing and selling its SpotMini robot soon, but the details keep shifting.
Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Says It’ll Sell Robots, But Won’t Give Any Details

We've heard this one before!

By Dan Robitzski

The German government just proposed to make measles vaccinations mandatory for children and people who work at kindergartens and schools.
Health & Medicine

Germany Plans to Make Measles Vaccines Mandatory for All Children

Parents could face fines of up to $2,800.

By Victor Tangermann

IBM's new electronic tongue Hypertaste is portable, fast, and capable of identifying a range of liquids, filling a gap in today's offerings.
Artificial Intelligence

IBM Unveils New “Electronic Tongue” to Taste and Identify Liquids

It can detect and match a liquid's "fingerprint" in less than a minute.

By Kristin Houser

A new AI system tracks people's tiny, involuntary eye movements to identify them, sort of like an ocular fingerprint scanner.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Identifies People by Their Minuscule Eye Movements

Our tiny eye twitches serve as a unique fingerprint.

By Dan Robitzski

Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail2 just snapped some incredible photos of the Earth days before it's planning to unfurl its solar sails.
Space

Experimental Spacecraft LightSail 2 Snaps Amazing Photos

LightSail 2 is flexing its muscles while getting ready to unfurl its massive solar sail.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have built a quantum gate incorporating qudits as opposed to qubits — and it could help usher in the era of quantum computing.
Quantum Physics

Forget Qubits — Scientists Just Built a Quantum Gate With Qudits

And they could help usher in the era of the quantum computer.

By Kristin Houser

As rockets lower themselves to the lunar surface, they kick up dangerous, bullet-like storms of rocks and dust. If unaddressed, they could lead to conflict.
Future Society

Rockets Causing Lunar Dust Storms Could Spark International War

Landing a rocket on the Moon can turn lunar dust into a cloud of bullets.

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA confirmed that asteroid 2006 QV89 will not collide with Earth later this year. Scientists don't know where it is, but it isn't on its way here.
Science & Energy

Good News: That Nearby Asteroid Won’t Obliterate Us This Year

The European Space Agency says we're safe — for now.

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Throwflame is about to start selling a $1,500 fully-functional flamethrower attachment for drones on Thursday.
Drones

Get Ready: “Flamethrower Drones” Are About to Go on Sale

Eat your heart out, Elon Musk.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has announced the first fruit to be grown in space before the end of this year: the humble Espanola chile pepper (capsicum annuum).
NASA

NASA Planning to Grow Chili Peppers on Space Station

"Just imagine having a fresh pepper to bite into after months of eating cardboard."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Neuralink hopes to one day use laser beams, and not a mechanical dril, to bore brain implant holes in the skull.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Will Use Lasers to Drill Holes In Your Skull

It’s part of Musk’s plan to connect human brains to computers.

By Kristin Houser

NASA's TESS satellite analyzed its first supernova, inadvertently revealing that astronomers made some wrong assumptions about the explosions.
Science & Energy

NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite Discovers Mysterious Supernova

TESS spotted its first supernova and challenged astronomers' assumptions.

By Dan Robitzski

Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming used tech to give her autistic son the ability to read emotions, but what happens when everyone wants to be a cyborg?
Prosthetics and Devices

“Mad Scientist” Mom Turns Autistic Son Into a “Cyborg”

And she questions what it means for the future of humanity.

By Kristin Houser

Hundreds of protesters in Hawaii blocked the start of construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope observatory, which would be built over cultural landmarks.
Future Society

Native Hawaiians Protest at New Observatory’s Construction Site

The Thirty Meter Telescope would be built on a culturally-significant summit.

By Dan Robitzski

A new "flying saucer" drone design uses half the propellers of a typical quadrotor drone, letting it fly for twice as long.
Drones

A “Flying Saucer” Design Lets Drones Fly Twice as Long

Unlike typical drones, the design only involves two propellers.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers just saw for the first time a gas giant planet actively forming new moons out of a cloud of gas and dust.
Science & Energy

Scientists Spot Distant Gas Giant Still Forming New Moons

It's the first observation of a Jupiter-like planet actively forming a moon.

By Dan Robitzski

In a post uploaded to her Instagram account, Grimes elaborated on her extremely unusual training regiment that's straight out of a bad sci-fi novel.
Health & Medicine

Grimes Uses Deprivation Tank to “Astro-Glide to Other Dimensions”

Grimes' outrageous wellness routine reads like bad sci-fi.

By Victor Tangermann

India’s Chandrayaan-2 Has More Power Than NASA’s Apollo Missions, But Cheaper
NASA

India’s Chandrayaan-2 Has More Power Than NASA’s Apollo Missions, But Cheaper

Going back to the moon would cost less than producing the film "Interstellar."

By Dom Galeon