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The bombing isn't an act of space vandalism. The goal is to blow a 10-meter crater in asteroid in order to see what it looks like on the inside.
Science & Energy

Japan Lobs Bomb to Blow Hole in Asteroid… For Science

Die, asteroid! Die!

Thanks to a Google-developed neural network, we now live in the same universe as an audio deepfake of Trump singing Eminem.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch a Neural Network Make Trump Sing Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”

There's vomit on his sweater.

NASA is sending a pair of "robotic bees" to the ISS — a project the space agency is positioning as one of the most advanced experiments in space robotics.
NASA

NASA Is Sending Cute “Robotic Bees” to the Space Station

They look kind of like the "Weighted Companion Cube" from the videogame "Portal."

Linus Torvalds, the angry rant-prone creator of Linux, argues that modern social media incentivize terrible behavior online.
Future Society

Linux Creator: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Are “A Disease”

"It's just disgusting."

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Fragment of Planet Orbiting Its Dead Star

If Earth ever seems bad, remember this poor planet!

The United Nations plans to help build a prototype of a floating city concept designed to withstand the impact of climate change.
Future Society

See the United Nations’ Floating, Hurricane-Ready City Concept

"Everybody on the team actually wants to get this built. We're not just theorizing."

Scientists at the University of Central Florida say they've figured out how to make pulses of light travel 30 times as fast as usual — or even backward.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Can Make Light Travel 30x Faster Than Normal

Do you know how fast you were going?

Microsoft is set to close its ebook store. Once it does, every book purchased on the platform will be deleted and refunded.
Future Society

Microsoft is Closing an eBook Store, Deleting All Books You Bought

The news serves as a reminder that people don't own digital media.

SpaceX's Starship Hopper successfully completed a tethered hop, putting the company's in-development Starship one step closer to liftoff.
Starship

SpaceX’s Starship Hopper Completes First Tethered “Hop”

"All systems green," CEO Elon Musk tweeted.

Scientists found the a single dose of MDMA can help adult mice re-learn social behavior. They hope it can help people with PTSD.
Brain

MDMA Can “Reopen” a Part of the Brain That Closes After Puberty

It may lead to MDMA-assisted treatments for PTSD.

Russia's military says that its "super soldiers" are able to use "parapsychology" techniques to crash computers with telepathy they learned from dolphins.
Computers

Russia Says “Super Soldiers” Can Crash Computers With Telepathy

They reportedly learned parapsychology warfare techniques by studying telepathic dolphins.

Don't get us wrong: there's nothing wrong with being a furry. But here are five things Musk could be working on instead of tweeting.
Elon Musk

6 Things Elon Musk Could Be Doing Instead of Denying He’s a Furry

Is it time to log off?

Senator Warren just introduced a bill that would jail executives of billion-dollar tech companies from which users' personal info gets stolen.
Data Privacy

Elizabeth Warren: If Data Gets Stolen, Throw Tech CEOs in Prison

Warren is tired of negligence being rewarded with golden parachutes.

The organ shortage could get worse with the advent of self-driving cars, but advances in xenotransplantation could make up the difference and then some.
Health & Medicine

The Organ Shortage Will Soon Get Worse. Animal Organs Could Help.

"It’s no longer a question of if. It’s just a question of when."

The FDA, the United States' consumer health watchdog, is now raising the alarm that they could be associated with dangerous seizures.
Health & Medicine

The FDA Is Investigating Whether Vaping Causes Seizures

The agency is cracking down on vaping once again.

For the past eight years, IBM's Watson AI division has boasted about plans to revolutionize healthcare. Now, doctors are getting tired of waiting.
Artificial Intelligence

Doctors Are Losing Faith in IBM Watson’s AI Doctor

"They came in with marketing first, product second, and got everybody excited."

North Korea's hacking division, APT 38, stole $1 billion from online banks and crypto exchanges in 2018. All that money is helping fund nuclear weapons.
Cryptocurrency

North Korea Is Using Hackers to Steal Money for Nuclear Bombs

The hack could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

A video of a gigantic Amazon drone mothership blimp is making the rounds online. It's creepy and fun, but it's also completely fake.
Advanced Transport

Good News, People: That Amazon Mothership Blimp is Fake

We've had our fun; it's just terrifying CGI.

Researchers have implanted transparent skulls into mice to get an unimpeded look at their brain activity on a wider scale over a longer period.
Brain

Scientists Add Windows to Mice Skulls to Watch Their Brains

"These are studies we couldn’t do in humans."

At a test flight for UK startup Gravity's "jet suit," UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson enthused about using similar suits for combat missions.
Military

UK Military Could Deploy Iron Man-Style Jet Suit in Combat

"Can you just imagine doing an assault on to a ship?"