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A recent report shows that amateur Russian hackers infiltrated the finance offices of several U.S. embassies around the world.
Science & Energy

Rogue Russian Hackers Are Attacking US Embassies

This is probably the work of amateurs.

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists developed a device that allows heat to flow from cold to hot objects, apparently contrary to the second law of thermodynamics.
Science & Energy

Scientists: New Device Appears to Defy the Laws of Thermodynamics

It sounds suspiciously like a perpetual motion machine, but things are more complicated than that.

By Jacob Banas

Update: Vid Appears to Show SpaceX Capsule Exploding During Test
SpaceX

Update: Vid Appears to Show SpaceX Capsule Exploding During Test

SpaceX won't say whether the video is real.

By Victor Tangermann

According to consumer tech website Sam Mobile, the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Fold has been delayed in China — the world's largest market for smartphones.
Robots and Machines

Samsung is Delaying the Galaxy Fold’s Launch After Broken Screens

Samsung has yet to comment on the delay, which could be a turning point against much-hyped folding phones.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA approved the preliminary designs of a spacecraft expected to visit the asteroid Psyche in 2022. When it gets there, NASA won't know what to expect.
NASA

NASA Is Gearing up to Visit a Shattered, Volcanic Asteroid

NASA is getting ready to visit a leftover fragment from the core of a destroyed planet.

By Dan Robitzski

A new biomaterial exhibits metabolism-like behaviors. It appears in some ways to act like a living thing, blurring the line between biology and machinery.
Biology

Scientists Create Material With “Artificial Metabolism”

It isn't quite alive, but it isn't quite not-alive either.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered genetic variants that protect people from obesity and its symptoms.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Find Genetic Variants That Prevent Obesity, Diabetes

"This study drives home the fact that genetics plays a major role in why some people are obese."

By Kristin Houser

IBM is halting development and sales of its Watson AI designed to find promising new medications, according to a new STAT story.
Artificial Intelligence

IBM Pulls the Plug on Drug-Discovering Watson AI

It's starting to look like IBM's high hopes for Watson Health were misplaced.

By Kristin Houser

The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering holding Mark Zuckerberg directly responsible for Facebook's privacy scandals.
Future Society

The Government Wants to Make an Example out of Mark Zuckerberg

Federal regulators are meeting behind closed doors to discuss how to handle Zuck.

By Dan Robitzski

China has announced what local media is calling the "world's first armed amphibious drone boat."
Military

China’s Military Built an Autonomous Amphibious Landing Vehicle

This weird autonomous vehicle is designed for combat missions on land and sea.

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Dynamics has debuted the version of its SpotMini robot dog that it plans to actually sell to consumers — but it has yet to announce a price tag.
Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Unveils SpotMini You’ll Actually Be Able to Buy

What the company hasn't unveiled: a price.

By Kristin Houser

The governor of Puerto Rico just signed a bill that will quickly move the island away from non-renewable energy sources within the next few decades.
Climate Change

Puerto Rico Will Stop Burning Coal Next Year

The goal is switch to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.

By Dan Robitzski

A neural network is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars and bellowing vocals of death metal — and livestreaming it.
Artificial Intelligence

Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network

This is the finest death metal that AI can dream up.

By Jon Christian

The European Space Agency just greenlit a UK aerospace manufacturer's tests of a novel air-breathing rocket engine that sucks up atmospheric oxygen.
Off-World

Amazing New Rocket Engine Sucks up Atmospheric Oxygen for Fuel

The same payload could be delivered to orbit at half the vehicle mass of current launchers.

By Victor Tangermann

Nick Bostrom, author of "The Simulation Argument," says humanity needs to embrace mass surveillance to avoid the destruction of civilization.
Future Society

Professor: Total Surveillance Is the Only Way to Save Humanity

The author of "The Simulation Argument" says one bad technology could destroy humanity — and the only way to prevent it is an AI overlord.

By Kristin Houser

Almost every active nuclear reactor in the U.S. is unprepared for flooding and storm surge caused by climate change; industry groups chose not to act.
Climate Change

Climate Change Could Cause Fukushima-Style Meltdowns in the US

Almost all American nuclear power plants are unprepared for floods and storms, according to a new analysis.

By Dan Robitzski

Denver, Colorado, may soon decriminalize the personal use of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, making it the first place in the U.S. to consider doing so.
Future Society

Denver Is Voting on Whether to Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms

Personal use and possession would no longer be punishable by law.

By Dan Robitzski

GermFalcon, a company specializing in airplane sanitizing tech, developed a kind of space Roomba that can blast sterilising UV rays at the walls of the ISS.
Sleep

This Space Roomba Could Clean the ISS While Astronauts Sleep

Blasting the walls with UV is bound to curb the spread of microbes.

By Victor Tangermann

Infamous tech entrepreneur John McAfee says he's going unmask Bitcoin's creator, but the clues he's shared so far do little to narrow the field.
Bitcoin

John McAfee Vows to Reveal Bitcoin’s Creator

But so far, his "clues" about Satoshi Nakamoto haven't narrowed down the field much.

By Kristin Houser

Scientists finally detect helium hydride, a combination of helium and hydrogen, thought to be the first molecule to form in the universe.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Finally Found the Universe’s First Type of Molecule

Decades of hunting has paid off.

By Kristin Houser