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The Boring Company’s Chicago Tunnel Project Might Soon be Dead
Advanced Transport

"If you look at Elon Musk’s career — he comes off as a grifter."

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's content moderators work under grueling conditions and are often traumatized by the videos they have to watch and remove.
Meta

"We’d go down and get stoned and go back to work. That’s not professional."

By Dan Robitzski

In an interview newly published by Popular Mechanics, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared his thoughts on colonizing Mars — even how they might grow vegetables.
Mars

"For having an outdoorsy, fun atmosphere, you’d probably want to have some faceted glass dome, with a park, so you can walk around without a suit."

By Jon Christian

For an upcoming trial, researchers will inject people genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer's with genes linked to a lowered risk.
Brain

"You can’t change your genes — although maybe with this study you can."

By Kristin Houser

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos thinks humanity will "live in giant O'Neal-style space colonies," according to a recent interview rather than settling on planets.
Off-World

"Very few people are going to want to leave this planet permanently — it's just too amazing."

By Victor Tangermann

Warren Buffett believes that electric cars are the future. He thinks American automakers will move in that direction whether or not the government helps.
Advanced Transport

American automakers may innovate all on their own

By Dan Robitzski

A Navy researcher thinks he's created a room-temperature superconductor, and if he has, the device could radically change the world of energy.
Military

It could be the energy breakthrough we've been waiting for.

By Kristin Houser

The Lunary Library, a backup copy of human knowledge, is on its way to the moon, where it will serve as an archive in case things go wrong on Earth.
Moon

Just in case civilization collapses.

By Dan Robitzski

This Beast-Mode Electric Skateboard Goes a Ridiculous 45 MPH
Advanced Transport

"All cost considerations aside, how much power can we stuff into a little box?"

By Victor Tangermann

Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov has unveiled a tiny, uncrewed drone that's meant to destroy remote ground targets from 40 miles away.
Drones

"I think of it as democratizing smart bombs."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which touched down in 2014, experienced a "hiccup" while booting up last week. For now, it's back online.
Mars

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

By Jon Christian

Certain electric vehicle advocates are excited about so-called "refillable batteries": lithium ion cells which can be refilled with charged electrolyte.
Science & Energy

Fill 'er up!

By Jon Christian

An app called Join Papa lets senior citizens summon "on-demand grandkids," much like you'd order food on Seamless or a car on Uber.
Future Society

It's like Uber, but for fighting crushing loneliness.

By Jon Christian

Famed investor Warren Buffett warned in his annual letter of a "megacatastrophe," which he said will cause unprecedented havoc.
Climate Change

"When such a mega-catastrophe strikes, we will get our share of the losses and they will be big – very big."

By Jon Christian

China says it's developing a non-lethal weapon that uses millimeter microwave radar tech to inflict horrible pain on targets.
Future Society

The millimeter microwave gun causes excruciating nerve pain, said a government source.

By Jon Christian

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wants to send its first passengers to space as soon as this year aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
Off-World

"it's not a race."

By Victor Tangermann

Employees at Microsoft signed a letter calling for the company to cancel a military contract that would supply U.S. Army soldiers with HoloLens AR headsets. 
Virtual Reality

"Intent to harm is not an acceptable use of our technology."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA and SpaceX decided to proceed with plans yesterday for the first ever test flight, dubbed Demo-1, of SpaceX's Crew Dragon passenger spacecraft.
Crew Dragon

All systems are go for just one week from now.

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube pulled programmatic ad placements on a number of anti-vaccination or anti-vax related channels, BuzzFeed News reports.
Future Society

Many advertisers don't want to be associated with anti-vax content.

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that introducing autonomous vehicles to the Washington D.C. area could worsen inequality and explores solutions.
Self-Driving Vehicles

They suggest fining single-passenger autonomous vehicles to promote carpooling.

By Dan Robitzski