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NASA has big plans for its female astronauts — according to administrator Jim Bridenstine, the first person to reach Mars will "likely" be a woman.
Mars

He also thinks the next person on the Moon will be a woman.

By Kristin Houser

A new law making it compulsory for every child in the country to receive a range of immunizations including measles and polio came into effect this week.
Health & Medicine

Schools are sending unvaccinated kids home — and parents risk a government fine.

By Victor Tangermann

A new website called This Airbnb Does Not Exist whips up plausible-yet-slightly-incoherent apartment listings using machine learning.
Artificial Intelligence

The future of the internet is lots and lots of fake stuff.

By Jon Christian

Japan's space agency is partnering with Toyota to build a six-wheeled, self-driving vehicle to explore the surface of the Moon as soon as 2029.
Advanced Transport

The six-wheeled concept can drive itself for over 6,000 miles with two passengers on board.

By Victor Tangermann

Konstantin Ignatov has been arrested for his role in OneCoin — a cryptocurrency the U.S. Department of Justice calls a "multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme."
Cryptocurrency

"This business was a pyramid scheme based on smoke and mirrors more than zeroes and ones."

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that dimming sunlight through geoengineering, if done moderately, could lessen the effects of climate change with few side effects.
Climate Change

Just a pinch of geoengineering could lessen climate change with fewer side effects.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA included a possible 2026 sample return mission to Mars in this week's budget request. Congress has yet to approve the budget.
Mars

It's an aggressive timeline.

By Victor Tangermann

A newly discovered Chinese database tracks which female citizens are "breedready," a term apparently used to signal if she is likely able to have children.
Data Privacy

“Is this the prologue to The Handmaid’s Tale?”

By Kristin Houser

A new Toyota patent details a personalized system that can fill a car with someone's favorite scent. Or, if they're stealing the car, with tear gas.
Advanced Transport

Now that's what we call a car alarm!

By Dan Robitzski

George Hotz told a crowd at SXSW that he suspects we live in a simulation, and he wants to find a way to break out of it.
Hacking

He's also thinking of starting a church dedicated to escaping the simulation.

By Dan Robitzski

A mind-controlled drone will hit Kickstarter on Tuesday, giving anyone with roughly $282 the ability to fly a drone without a handheld controller.
Drones

"It's not perfect, but it does give a glimpse of a mind-controlled future."

By Kristin Houser

Nick Bostrom told Vulture he didn't see "The Matrix" until after penning his still-discussed 2003 paper, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?"
Future Society

Nick Bostrom doesn't think you should try to break free from the Matrix.

By Kristin Houser

In a paper two professors argue that algorithms are already constructing and shaping our reality, whether we're aware of it or not.
Artificial Intelligence

"We are setting ourselves up for technological domination."

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon employees are experiencing mental health breakdowns due to warehouse working conditions, according to a Daily Beast report.
Future Society

"It’s this isolating colony of hell where people having breakdowns is a regular occurrence."

By Kristin Houser

New research upends the common assumption that sound waves are weightless. It turns out they carry a trace amount of mass in the form of phonons.
Physics

Long thought to be weightless, new research suggests sonic waves have mass.

By Dan Robitzski

To help people determine whether or not a news article was made up by a bot, scientists built a tool that looks for signs of humanity within text.
Artificial Intelligence

Reassuringly, Futurism articles registered as being written by humans.

By Dan Robitzski

Security company Gemalto invented a debit card that can make secure purchases through a built-in fingerprint scanner. UK bank Natwest will trial it soon.
Future Society

Is it more secure?

By Victor Tangermann

More Tesla stores will remain open than previously expected, according to a new Tesla blog post, but the move will also increase vehicle prices.
Tesla

The company has "reevaluated" a plan it just announced 10 days ago.

By Kristin Houser

As robots and AI replace more and more workers, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez argues we need a national safety net to provide for the displaced.
Future Society

"We should be excited about automation because of what it could potentially mean."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Spots “Moving Water Molecules” on the Moon
Moon

This could be a big deal for future missions to the Moon.

By Victor Tangermann