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Astro Live Experiences is just about ready to send its long-promised, artificial shooting star-launching satellite into orbit.
Science & Energy

A Satellite That Fires Fake Shooting Stars Is Ready to Launch

Pending successful tests, the first shower will happen next year.

By Dan Robitzski

Asked whether it's ever been in love, Sophia the Robot told the crowd at the 2019 Web Summit that "No. I don't do sexual activities."
Robotics

Sophia the Robot Tells Crowded Room That It Doesn’t Have Sex

"No. I don't do sexual activities."

By Dan Robitzski

Galaxies millions of light years away seem to be connected by network of unseen forces, forcing them to move with each other in unexpected ways.
Science & Energy

Something Very Strange Seems to Be Synchronizing Distant Galaxies

Galaxies are aligning, despite being billions of light years apart. Astrophysicists are stumped — and intrigued.

By Victor Tangermann

A Florida detective was granted a warrant to access the entire database of a DNA website — and experts say the situation sets a dangerous precedent.
Future Society

Cops Can Now Get Warrants for Entire DNA Websites

One judge's decision could set off a privacy nightmare.

By Kristin Houser

The Apple Card has granted women a lower credit limit than their husbands in a number of high-profile cases, raising questions about bias behind the scenes.
Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak Says the Apple Card Discriminated Against His Wife

They share their assets. He was granted a much higher credit limit.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has successfully deployed the first 60 Starlink satellites, which after launch will team up with thousands more to beam internet to Earth.
SpaceX

Watch SpaceX Launch 60 Starlink Satellites

60 down. Thousands more to go.

By Kristin Houser

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi compared his company's self-driving car killing someone to Saudi Arabia murdering a journalist, calling both simple mistakes.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Uber CEO Compares Self-Driving Car Crash to Murdering Journalists

"I think that people make mistakes."

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at a U.S. healthcare provider trained an AI to predict when you'll die by which patients were at a higher risk of dying within the next year.
Developments

This AI Knows When You’ll Die and Its Creators Don’t Know How

"The model is seeing things that humans probably can’t see."

By Victor Tangermann

A video has surfaced showing a driverless Tesla moving at a brisk pace through a mall parking lot — on the wrong side of the road.
Tesla

Driverless Tesla Found Driving in Wrong Lane in a Parking Lot

Regulators aren't happy about Tesla's new Smart Summon feature.

By Victor Tangermann

New CDC research solidifies scientists' hunch that a compound called vitamin E acetate is causing the ongoing "vape lung" outbreak.
Chemistry

The CDC Says It Really Knows What’s Causing “Vape Lung” This Time

A growing mountain of evidence implicates one compound in the mysterious illness.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists detected a thermonuclear explosion in space, which they believe was caused by a fusion reaction on the surface of a pulsar.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast in Deep Space

The massive explosion came from the surface of a pulsar.

By Dan Robitzski

Ambrosia Health, the "young blood" transfusion clinic formerly known as Ivy Plasma, is back, touting a new overnight shipping service.
Developments

Ambrosia Is Back to Selling Transfusions of Young People’s Blood

What is dead may never die.

By Dan Robitzski

Someone just released a massive amount of data from Iron March, one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world.
Data Privacy

Someone Published All the Membership Data From a Neo-Nazi Website

The data dump includes members' public posts and private chats.

By Kristin Houser

Scientists use an electron microscopy science technique called 4D-STEM to image the molecular structure of materials with the beautiful result of art.
Science & Energy

These Photos Make Molecular Structures Look Like Psychedelic Art

A new imaging technique produces gorgeous results.

By Kristin Houser

Russian researchers have created an AI that analyzes electroencephalography data and draws what a person is looking at in real time.
Brain

This AI Decodes Your Brainwaves and Draws What You’re Looking at

The revolutionary system can reconstruct data from scalp electrodes into a video of what the participant is seeing.

By Kristin Houser

A number of Trump advisers have offered their "modernized" vision of national parks and campgrounds, including WiFi, food trucks, even Amazon deliveries.
Science & Energy

Trump Advisers Want to Get WiFi, Amazon Deliveries in National Parks

“We want to let Americans make their own decisions in the marketplace.”

By Victor Tangermann

The top trends on Twitter included X-rated terms and references to sexual violence that somehow got past its content moderation tools.
Robots and Machines

Twitter Accidentally Trends Horrifyingly Explicit Sexual Terms

Uh oh.

By Dan Robitzski

A new cancer drug cuts off tumor cells' food supply while also seemingly supercharging the immune systems' cancer-destroying T cells.
Cancer

Scientists Tout “Miracle” Cancer Drug That Starves Tumor Cells

"If this compound can be translated to humans, it has a bright future."

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk donated a million dollars to a campaign to plant trees. The next day, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke pledged a million and one.
Elon Musk

Rival CEO Literally One-Ups Elon Musk’s Million-Tree Donation

Musk pledged a million trees. Tobi Lütke is donating a million and one.

By Kristin Houser

Human traffickers are selling slaves via Instagram and other apps, according to a disturbing new investigation by BBC News Arabic.
Future Society

Human Traffickers Are Literally Selling Slaves on Instagram

They tried to sell a 16-year-old girl on Instagram. "This is the quintessential example of modern slavery," said a UN representative.

By Kristin Houser