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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

A crypto thief that security experts are calling the "blockchain bandit" made off with millions of dollars' worth of Ethereum by guessing weak passwords.
Science & Energy

Crypto Thief Stole $54 Million by Guessing Weak Passwords

Pick a strong password, people!

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Just Recorded Its First Ever Marsquake
Mars

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Just Recorded Its First Ever Marsquake

A NASA scientist said the finding "officially kicks off a new field: Martian seismology."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are using CRISPR technology to develop new model organisms. But actually keeping the gene-hacked critters alive comes with new challenges.
Biology

Scientists Are Having Trouble Keeping Gene-Hacked Creatures Alive

Trying to move beyond conventional "model organisms" comes with challenges

By Dan Robitzski

A group of engineers figured out a way to fool AI surveillance systems with the help of a little colorful patch you can hang around your neck.
Artificial Intelligence

This Colorful Picture is Like an Invisibility Cloak for AI

You can print one out for yourself.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have figured out how a slime mold without a brain is still seemingly able to learn and transmit knowledge to other molds.
Science & Energy

Researchers Discover How a Brainless Slime Can Remember Things

They also figured out how it shares what it knows with other slimes.

By Kristin Houser

Watch a Tesla Model S Burst Into Flames in a Parking Garage
Tesla

Watch a Tesla Model S Burst Into Flames in a Parking Garage

Luckily, nobody got hurt.

By Victor Tangermann

Within four years, 97% of passengers leaving the U.S. will be subjected to airport face scans, according to a new Homeland Security report.
Artificial Intelligence

US Airports Will Scan 97% of Outbound Flyers’ Faces Within 4 Years

Is this really about catching people in the U.S. illegally? Or controlling American citizens?

By Kristin Houser

On Saturday, a SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule exploded during a static test. But you would never know that from SpaceX, which insists on calling it an "anomaly."
SpaceX

SpaceX Won’t Admit That Its Crew Capsule Exploded

There was almost certainly an explosion during a SpaceX test this weekend. Why does the company refuse to use that word?

By Dan Robitzski

Wall Street is not buying Elon Musk's assertion that Tesla will have a million autonomous robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020.
Tesla

Experts: Tesla’s Plans to Launch a Robotaxi Network Are Nonsense

One million autonomous robotaxis on the road in 2020? A prominent analyst called the idea "half baked."

By Kristin Houser

New Research: The Moon Is Covered With Miles-Deep Cracks
Moon

New Research: The Moon Is Covered With Miles-Deep Cracks

The lunar surface is more perilous than scientists ever believed.

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon recently unveiled a new requirement for contractors who deliver its packages: taking selfies now and then to verify their identity.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Forcing Its Delivery Drivers to Take Selfies

The idea is to use facial recognition to prevent fraud.

By Dan Robitzski

A bill that would legalize human composting after death is just a governor's signature away from becoming law in Washington state.
Future Society

Washington Is One Signature Away From Legalizing Human Composting

"It’s the most efficient and environmentally sound method of burial."

By Kristin Houser

A social media entrepreneur could spend the next 20 years in prison because he paid someone to try to steal a domain name at gunpoint.
Future Society

Someone Used a Gun to Try to Steal a Domain Name

Maybe he should've just gone with the .net.

By Kristin Houser

NASA recently tested a new drone swarm, where "Hives" release "Cicadas" to monitor the weather and atmospheric conditions.
Drones

NASA’s “Hive” Drones Can Deploy Swarms of Tiny Robot Cicadas

The tiny robots fly around to scan the weather.

By Dan Robitzski

CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna believes the tech's most profound impact on the mainstream in the next five years will be gene-edited food.
Agriculture

CRISPR Co-Inventor: We’ll Be Eating Gene-Edited Food In Five Years

Get ready for gene-edited grub.

By Kristin Houser