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Prosthetics and Devices

Microsoft Patented an Xbox Controller With a Braille Display

The live feed of Braille makes in-game text more accessible.

Artificial Intelligence

Investor Sues After an AI’s Automated Trades Cost Him $20 Million

The first-of-its-kind case could shape the future of AI legislation.

Drones

Drones’ Batteries Could Last Longer if They Could Perch Like Birds

These modular landing gears could allow a drone to perch underneath a bridge during a storm.

Artificial Intelligence

This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces

Two scientists built a tool to help people navigate the era of deepfakes.

Future Society

Playing on Your Phone at the Store Could Make You Buy More Junk

New research shows that your phone could even cause you to forget items you actually meant to buy.

Future Society

SF Is so Expensive That People Are Using Parking Spots as Offices

Would you use a parking space for coworking?

3D Printing

New Video Shows 3D Printed Lung “Breathing”

The air sac can be seen pumping oxygenated blood, just like a lung.

Science & Energy

United Nations: One Million Species Are Poised to Go Extinct

"This loss is a direct result of human activity."

Robotics

Watch This Hulking Robot Play “The Floor Is Lava”

See it walk across suspended planks and wobbly cinder blocks.

ESA

ESA Satellite Accidentally Discovered Three New Asteroids

Gaia was supposed to map the stars. It found something new instead.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Is Spitting Out Coherent, Almost-Funny Dad Puns

AI won't be writing our comedy specials quite yet — but maybe some day.

Medical

Medical First: Doctor Performs Open Heart Surgery in the Street

The stabbing victim probably wouldn't have survived the trip to a hospital.

Off-World

Tiny Specks Zoom Into Beautiful Galaxies In Amazing Hubble Image

16 years of data showing 265,000 galaxies all in one image.

Robotics

Futuristic Robot Farm Begins Selling Its First Produce

Your next salad could include greens cultivated by a robot named Angus. 

Robotics

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over

Do you know how fast you were going?

Brain

Stanford Scientist Says In-Ear Gadgets Will Monitor Our Brains

"The ear is like a biological equivalent of a USB port."

Health & Medicine

Moms Are Microdosing Magic Mushrooms, Just Like Tech Execs

"It definitely doesn’t impair my ability to parent. If anything, my awareness is sharpened."

Future Society

InfoWars Made a New Facebook Page One Hour After Ban

Facebook is losing a game of whack-a-mole.

Black Holes

Scientists Just Detected a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star

It was the fifth gravitational wave detection at LIGO in April alone.

SpaceX

SpaceX Is Sending Living Bits of Human Organs to Space

And what they discover could help us battle disease here on Earth.