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Facebook has announced it's collaborating with researchers to build a real-time brain decoding device that could help patients with neurological damage.
Meta

Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset

Facebook really wants to get inside your head.

A massive space rock called Asteroid 2019 OK just flew right past Earth reaching a distance of only 73,000 kilometers away from our planet's surface.
Science & Energy

“City Killer” Asteroid Whizzes Past Earth Almost Undetected

In other words, the Earth just avoided an asteroid disaster of catastrophic proportions.

Sony claims its new wearable air conditioner, the Reon Pocket, can drop your body's surface temperature by 23 degrees Fahrenheit.
Robots and Machines

Sony Unveils Wearable Air Conditioner That Sits in a Shirt Pocket

It can reportedly drop your body's surface temp by 23°F.

Chinese vlogger "Your Highness Qiao Biluo" was ousted to be a 58-year-old woman with a different appearance when her face filtering software glitched.
Future Society

Youthful Vlogger’s Face Filter Fails, Exposing Her as 58-Year-Old

Is it okay to use tech to make yourself look young?

Financial aggregation services are giving hackers everything they need to access and empty wealthy targets' bank accounts.
Science & Energy

Hackers Are Cracking Online Banking Sites to Steal Your Cash

A couple easy tricks make it easy for hackers to drain your bank account.

Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crashed onto the surface of the Moon on April 11 spilling thousands of dehydrated "water bears" or tardigrades.
Science & Energy

Crashed Moon Lander Splattered Live Organisms Onto Lunar Surface

And they may still be alive.

SpaceX has launched a SmallSat Rideshare Program, an initiative designed to let smaller satellite operators split the cost of launches.
SpaceX

SpaceX Debuts “Rideshare” Program For Launching Satellites

Space has never been this cheap.

A fertility clinic's 30-minute operation is making it possible to delay menopause — and all the nasty health side effects that come with it.
Health & Medicine

New Operation Could Delay Menopause for 20 Years, Says Clinic

For about $10k, you can now press pause on menopause.

In response to two mass shootings, Trump says social media companies should spot mass shooters before they commit and violent crimes.
Future Society

Trump: Social Media Companies Should Spot Mass Shooters in Advance

He wants them to make a system for spotting red flags.

No, Violent Video Games Don’t Cause Mass Shootings
Future Society

No, Violent Video Games Don’t Cause Mass Shootings

Blaming violent media for mass shootings is a gross oversimplification.

A new CGI system can create a fully-rendered video game character based on a performer's motion capture data in real time.
Robots and Machines

Amazing Tech Turns You Into a CGI Character In Real Time

The tech cuts rendering times down to near-instantaneous.

Israel believes soldiers might control the "tank of the future" using a joystick like the one that comes with an Xbox gaming console.
Robots and Machines

Israel Demos “Tank of the Future” Featuring Xbox-Style Controller

Gaming hardware is making its way into the military.

Fed up with the challenges of living with diabetes, a biohacker built himself an artificial pancreas to automatically manage his insulin pump.
Prosthetics and Devices

How This Engineer Hacked Together His Own “Artificial Pancreas”

A biohacker turned an insulin pump into an artificial organ.

Some Elon Musk followers are suggesting that the CEO's jokey Twitter feed could be his way of foreshadowing the debut of a new Tesla vehicle.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Fans Think His Meme Tweets Are Teasing a New Tesla

Or maybe he's just making jokes about bee emojis.

Franky Zapata's second attempt to cross the English Channel on his flying hoverboard was a success — and now he's turning his attention to his flying car.
Advanced Transport

Hoverboard Guy Crosses English Channel, Shifts Focus to Flying Car

"It has to come out before the end of the year."

A Bay Area group is attempting to hack insulin to address the skyrocketing cost of the hormone for people with diabetes in the U.S.
Health & Medicine

Biohackers Are Attempting to Make Their Own Insulin

The skyrocketing cost of insulin has led to a desperate DIY attempt.

Teens and young adults are finding themselves in the hospital with severe respiratory illnesses caused by vaping, even when they're otherwise healthy.
Developments

Health Officials Blame Vaping for “Severe Respiratory Illnesses”

Fourteen young folks were hospitalized in Wisconsin and Illinois.

A deepfake answers the age-old question: "What would it look like if Keanu Reeves had the body of a child actor singing in an episode of 'Sesame Street?'"
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Deepfaked Keanu Reeves Into “Sesame Street”

Yes, they're creepy and democracy-threatening, but deepfakes can also be fun.

CEO Elon Musk has tweeted that SpaceX's Starship prototype should be "almost ready to fly" in time for the company's August 24 update presentation.
Starship

Elon Musk: Starship Prototypes Could Be Ready to Fly This Month

Starship’s debut could be a short hop — or a historic orbital adventure.

Now there's another lawsuit filed against Tesla after a driver died behind the wheel of an "Autopilot"-enabled car that crashed.
Tesla

Tesla Slammed by Another Autopilot Crash Lawsuit

The family of a man who died in a March crash just sued Tesla.