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Surgeons just used the first autonomous surgery robot, a self-guiding catheter that could navigate its way through a pig's heart.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve

Surgeons just used the first-ever autonomous surgery robot in an experimental operation on a pig.

By Dan Robitzski

China is considering a law that would make deepfakes illegal, a move that shows the world power is taking the threat the videos pose very seriously.
Artificial Intelligence

China Wants to Make Deepfakes Illegal

It's concerned the videos could threaten national security.

By Kristin Houser

A cat named Pikachu, who died and was cremated in January, will be the first cat to have its ashes launched out into space.
Off-World

A Dead Cat Named Pikachu Is Getting Launched Into Space

You made it, little buddy.

By Dan Robitzski

Plant-based meat startup Beyond Meat plans to launch an IPO next month, at the ambitious total valuation of $1.2 billion.
Future Society

Fake Meat Startup Beyond Meat Says It’s Worth More Than $1 Billion

The company plans to launch an IPO in May.

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface device can translate the neural signals controlling someone's vocal tract into full sentences of audible speech.
Health & Medicine

Amazing Device Turns Thoughts Into Audible Sentences

It's far from perfect, but it's an important step.

By Dan Robitzski

During a Reddit AMA, science communicator and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku said he expects we'll discover the theory of everything by the year 2100.
Science & Energy

Michio Kaku Thinks We’ll Prove The “Theory of Everything” by 2100

That wasn't his only exciting prediction for the 21st century, either.

By Kristin Houser

Gianluca Vacchi is suing E*Trade because he believes the company created a "clone" of his persona to use in a 2017 commercial.
Future Society

Lawsuit Claims Advertiser Created “Clone” of Instagram Influencer

The Italian millionaire isn't happy about having his persona allegedly stolen.

By Kristin Houser

Several Lime scooters had to be pulled off the streets of Brisbane after hackers made them play sexually explicit audio recordings.
Advanced Transport

Hackers Are Reprogramming Lime Scooters to Make Sexual Comments

Jokes aside, this points to serious vulnerabilities in electric scooters.

By Dan Robitzski

Casinos all across the globe are starting to use facial recognition systems to improve their ability to keep self-identified problem gamblers away.
Facial recognition

Casinos Are Using Facial Recognition to Keep Banned Gamblers Away

One system even caught a man wearing a disguise not once, but twice.

By Kristin Houser

A hacker recently took control of over 27,000 drivers' accounts in apps that can monitor — and remotely disable — their car.
Robots and Machines

A Hacker Says He Can Kill Your Car’s Engine While You’re Driving

He targeted two apps that companies use to monitor their fleets of vehicles.

By Dan Robitzski

Two top execs at a major pharmaceutical distributor have been criminally charged for unlawfully distributing the drugs fueling the opioid crisis.
Health & Medicine

First Drug Execs Charged for Role In Opioid Epidemic

"Today's charges should send shock waves throughout the pharmaceutical industry."

By Kristin Houser

On Wednesday, the head of China's National Space Administration announced that China plans to construct a research station on the Moon within ten years.
Moon

China Says It’ll Have a Moon Base in Ten Years

China is stepping up its space exploration game in major ways.

By Dan Robitzski

Tech entrepreneur John McAfee has decided to push pause on his plan to reveal Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's true identify.
Bitcoin

Shocker: John McAfee Suspends Plan to Unmask Bitcoin’s Creator

Satoshi Nakamoto was "not a happy camper" about the plan, says McAfee.

By Kristin Houser

Young People Are Choosing to Live in “Pods” Instead of Apartments
Future Society

Young People Are Choosing to Live in “Pods” Instead of Apartments

Is this the logical endpoint of the sharing economy?

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's new counter-drone technology is a low-cost drone that acts like a battering ram, knocking hostile quadcopters out of the sky.
Drones

Russia Built a Battering Ram Drone to Knock Drones out of the Sky

"It just rams the [drone] in the hope the damage is enough to bring it down."

By Dan Robitzski

A new study tracked gun sales on the dark web. Surprisingly, only a small portion of the weapons sold were unavailable for legal purchase.
Science & Energy

People Are Selling Weapons on the Dark Web

The weird twist: most guns on the dark web are ones you could buy legally in the U.S.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have developed a voice analysis program that uses artificial intelligence to accurately and objectively diagnose PTSD.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Can Detect PTSD in Your Voice

Speech analysis software could revolutionize how we diagnose mental disorders.

By Natalie Coleman

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a video of the asteroid bombing mission recently undertaken by its Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
Science & Energy

Japan Releases Video of Its Spacecraft Bombing an Asteroid

See the projectile's launch from Hayabusa2's perspective.

By Kristin Houser

Using a powerful supercomputer, scientists simulated every single one of the billion atoms found in a human gene. It may help them crack genetic disease.
Biology

Scientists Simulated Every Single Atom of a Single Gene

It models a billion moving parts at once.

By Dan Robitzski

A New York teen is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming its facial recognition system led to his false arrest — but Apple denies the system exists.
Facial recognition

Teen Says Apple’s Facial Recognition Got Him Wrongfully Arrested

He’s now suing the company for $1 billion.

By Kristin Houser