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By studying the plasma in the Sun's atmosphere, we could learn how to control it here on Earth and finally make fusion energy a reality.
Energy

Plasma is the most common form of matter in our universe, but it's extremely difficult to study.

By Victor Tangermann

Comcast is developing a healthcare device that will monitor everything from how often a person visits the bathroom to the amount of time they spend in bed.
Health & Medicine

The device could be in your home before the end of the year.

By Kristin Houser

The New York Times reports that some 25 percent of Google's controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans.
Google

Google is still relying heavily on humans in call centers for its supposed AI calling feature.

By Victor Tangermann

China has unveiled a prototype for a new high-speed maglev train that it believes could dramatically cut travel times in the nation.
Advanced Transport

It's designed to reach a top speed of 372 miles per hour.

By Kristin Houser

NASA has awarded Maxar Technologies a contract worth a maximum of $375 million to build the lunar Gateway's power and propulsion element.
NASA

This lunar Gateway contract is worth up to $375 million.

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' idea for giant off-world space colonies "makes no sense."
Off-World

Musk says Bezos' idea "makes no sense."

By Jon Christian

NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft just underwent a series of extreme tests to prepare it for the intense conditions on the Red Planet's surface. 
Mars

"This is the most comprehensive stress test you can put a spacecraft through here on Earth."

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA executive who was appointed only six weeks ago to lead the strategy for future missions to the Moon has resigned.
Moon

Will NASA still be able to send humans to the Moon as soon as 2024?

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia announced a new hydraulic, quadrupedal robot dog, and showed the bot pulling a three-ton airplane.
Robot Dogs

These bots don't fetch papers, they fetch planes.

By Jacob Banas

Two Tesla Model 3s race in a new Boring Company video, with one taking the surface streets and the other opting for the company's underground tunnel.
Tesla

Can you guess which car had a top speed of 127 miles per hour?

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX Just Unleashed 60 Starlink Satellites Into Orbit
SpaceX

60 down, and 11,940 to go.

By Victor Tangermann

Saturday night, a mile-wide asteroid called 1999 KW4 will fly by the Earth, and when it does, it'll bring with it its very own moon.
Science & Energy

"It's one of the closest binary flybys probably in recent history."

By Kristin Houser

Programmers are creating sexist AI voice assistants, which are then encouraging users to be sexist, according to a new UN report.
Artificial Intelligence

Today's voice assistants are facing their own "Me Too" moment.

By Kristin Houser

The Senate just voted in favor of a bipartisan bill that could put an end to spam and unsolicited marketing calls once and for all.
Future Society

In the near future, we might chose to pick up the phone again.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discover a superconductor that works at temperatures nearly 50 Celsius degrees (84.6 Fahrenheit degrees) hotter than the previous record high.
Energy

It’s 50 degrees closer to room-temperature.

By Kristin Houser

Imma, a CGI fashion model, just scored a make-up modeling gig for a Japanese cosmetics brand.
Artificial Intelligence

The virtual model just scored her first real-life modeling gig.

By Victor Tangermann

We thought it would be fun to run some Elon Musk tweets through a neural network designed by OpenAI, the company he founded and quit.
Artificial Intelligence

"Changing Tesla's horn to be silent."

By Jon Christian

A Chinese rocket failed to successful launch a satellite into orbit Thursday morning, marking the second failed rocket launch in the nation this year.
Off-World

It’s the second failed rocket launch in the nation this year.

By Kristin Houser

Las Vegas will pay the Boring Company $48.6 million to build the LVCC Loop, an underground tunnel system connected to the city's convention center.
Advanced Transport

The City of Sin will likely be home to the company's first tunnel.

By Kristin Houser

Harvard professor Avi Loeb thinks finding signs of dead aliens could help humanity know what not to do if it wants to survive indefinitely.
Off-World

He thinks we could learn from the mistakes of deceased ETs.

By Kristin Houser