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Off-World

Japan Wants to Send Telepresence Robots to Space

Experimental robots could handle a human's workload on the ISS.

Virtual Reality

Expert: VR Headsets Should Have Brain Interfaces

Brain-computer interfaces could make VR gaming way more immersive.

Future Society

EU Parliament Passes Controversial “Meme Ban”

It's a "dark day for internet freedom."

Health & Medicine

“Fake Alcohol” That Gets You Buzzed but Never Drunk Is on the Way

It could hit store shelves in as few as five years.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Unveils “World’s First Automated Cannabis Farm”

Robots and AI take the guesswork out of growing weed.

Future Society

These DJs Are Making Music By Coding on a Huge Screen

In "algoraves," coder DJs run programs to assemble music.

Google

The Pentagon is Hiding Info About Google’s Work on Military Drones

All 5,000 pages of records on the project have been deemed too sensitive to disclose.

Future Society

Tech Used to Be for the Rich. Now They’re Paying to Avoid It.

"What we are seeing now is the luxurification of human engagement."

Health & Medicine

Handheld CRISPR Device Diagnoses Genetic Disease in 15 Minutes

The device could make genetic testing easier and more accessible.

Physics

Physicists Are Starting to Suspect Physical Reality Is an Illusion

They think the physical universe might be a sort of mass hallucination derived from pure information.

DARPA

DARPA Wants to Use Noisy Shrimp to Detect Enemy Subs

Underwater white noise could serve as natural sonar.

Future Society

Estonia is Building a “Robot Judge” to Help Clear Legal Backlog

Estonia's court system could soon get an AI overhaul.

Health & Medicine

A Cheap Diabetes Drug Shows Potential as a Life-Extension Therapy

But pharmaceutical companies have little financial incentive to research it.

Health & Medicine

A Scientist Thinks Someone Alive Today Will Live to be 1,000

"It's extraordinary to me that it's such an incendiary claim."

Climate Change

“BirthStrikers” Refuse to Reproduce Because of Climate Change

"It would break my heart to bring children into the world and have it collapse around them."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Is Now Building Cars With Hardware For “Full Self-Driving”

Will "Hardware 3" allow Tesla cars to truly drive themselves?

Climate Change

Climate Change Just Wiped out Its First Mammal

Rest in peace, little friend.

Off-World

360-Degree Video Puts You in the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

It's peaceful — except for the supermassive black holes.

Renewable Energy

New Facility Aims to Capture 40 Million Trees’ Worth of CO2 Every Year

It locked down initial funding with the help of Bill Gates.

Tesla

Video Shows Tesla Autopilot Steering Toward Highway Barriers

This isn't the first time Tesla's AI veered off course.