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According to the Department of Energy, geothermal energy could become a major player in the future of American electricity generation.
Geothermal

Energy Dept: Geothermal Power Has “Enormous Untapped Potential”

Geothermal plants could soon play a much larger role in the energy market.

By Dan Robitzski

By using machine learning technology, video game modders are reviving classic old games by giving their graphics a major update.
Machine Learning

Machine Learning Is Giving Retro Games Cutting-Edge Graphics

Your favorite classic video game is getting a makeover.

By Natalie Coleman

UK artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe, with the help of ad agency Canny, just uploaded a video of a deepfaked Mark Zuckerberg to Instagram.
Future Society

Watch Deepfaked Mark Zuckerberg Rant About How He Controls You

The video is straight out of "Black Mirror."

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. in engaged in space warfare, according to CNN's Jim Sciutto, who argues in a new book that Russia and China have already deployed space weapons.
Off-World

New Book: The US Is in a “Shadow War.” Space Is the Battlefield.

"Russia has kamikaze satellites that can destroy U.S. satellites in orbit. China has kidnapper satellites that could snatch them out of orbit."

By Kristin Houser

A computer virus has completely brought Philadelphia's online court system to its knees since May 21, as The Verge reports.
Future Society

Malware Shut Down Philadelphia Court System for Weeks

"There is no definitive timetable for when these services will be fully operational."

By Victor Tangermann

A brand-new subreddit called "newsbyAI" is full of fake news articles written by artificial intelligence systems that imitate the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence

New Subreddit Celebrates Bizarre Fake News Written by AI

People are sharing AI-written fake news about celebrities and politics.

By Dan Robitzski

Enzymes found in the human gut can efficiently transform blood type A into O, the universal donor kind that is in high demand.
Health & Medicine

Study: Gut Microbes Transform Type A Into Universal Donor Blood

This research could double our supply of the in-demand blood.

By Kristin Houser

Doctors might soon prescribe insurance-covered sex robots to patients, says one clinical psychologist — and it could spell the end of civilization.
Robotics

Expert: Doctors Will Soon Prescribe Sex Robots to Patients

The bots might help people overcome sexual dysfunctions — at the expense of civilization.

By Kristin Houser

A new law in Alabama will require that inmaes convicted of sexual crimes against a minor seeking parole will need to be chemically castrated.
Health & Medicine

New Law: Alabama Will Chemically Castrate Pedophiles

Alabama is the seventh state to enact a chemical castration law for convicted pedophiles.

By Dan Robitzski

A new op-ed in the New York Times says that everyone can embrace a life of high-tech luxury, as long as the world embraces communism.
Future Society

NYT Calls For “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”

Saving the world with new tech would require ending capitalism.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has stepped up to clarify what President Donald Trump meant by his confusing Moon tweet.
Moon

NASA Head: Trump’s Moon Tweet Doesn’t Change Anything

"Some people have tried to read more into this than there is."

By Kristin Houser

A hacker allegedly stole an entire MiniDisc archive and demanded a ransom. Radiohead called the bluff and put the archive of demos on sale for charity.
Hacking

Hackers Stole Old Radiohead Demos — Then Got Owned

"This is a bit of a doozy."

By Victor Tangermann

Some 100,000 travelers had their images and license plate numbers stored by U.S. Customs stolen by hackers, The New York Times reports.
Hacking

Hackers Steal 100,000 Traveler Photos from U.S. Customs

The stolen data includes pictures of drivers and their license plates collected over a six week period.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created an AI that can clone a person's voice, including their speech patterns — and it could make audio deepfakes harder to detect.
Artificial Intelligence

Alarming AI Clones Both a Person’s Voice and Their Speech Patterns

Hear its best Bill Gates impersonation.

By Kristin Houser

New Study: Alien Life is Probably Way Rarer Than We Thought
Exobiology

New Study: Alien Life is Probably Way Rarer Than We Thought

The safe zone for complex life is at least half as big as we initially determined.

By Victor Tangermann

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov told Nature that he's planning to use CRISPR to edit more human embryos — and bring them to term — as soon as late 2019.
Prosthetics and Devices

Russian Biologist Pledges to Create More CRISPR-Edited Babies

He wants to gene-hack babies as soon as this year.

By Jon Christian

NASA is livestreaming a video feed from the JPL clean room where it's currently assembling and testing the Mars 2020 rover.
Mars

Watch Live as NASA Builds the Mars 2020 Rover

"It is great that we can share this part of our journey to the Red Planet with the public anytime they want."

By Kristin Houser

A team of astronomers found a "large excess of mass" under the Moon's largest crater called the Aitken basin near the South Pole.
Moon

Astronomers Discover “Deep Structure” Under Moon’s Largest Crater

"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground."

By Victor Tangermann

The USDA has found gentically modified wheat growing in a field in Washington state — and it's not the first time the GMO plant has cropped up unexpectedly.
Science & Energy

GMO Wheat Escapes Lab, Grows in the Wild

And it's not the first time.

By Kristin Houser

U.S. President Donald Trump's puzzling Moon tweet instructing NASA to focus on Mars could have something to do with a Fox anchor's comments.
Moon

Trump: “NASA Should NOT be Talking About Going to the Moon”

A puzzling edict — on Twitter.

By Kristin Houser