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People interested in 3D-printed guns are sharing the files needed to build the firearms anonymously online, according to a troubling Wired story.
Future Society

Anonymous Group of 3D-Printed Gun Makers Is Spreading Online

"If they [the government] were to come after me, they’d first have to find my identity."

By Kristin Houser

Thousands of preschools are using a robot named Walklake that looks for signs of illness by scanning the faces and hands of students.
Health & Medicine

This Robot Scans Preschoolers’ Faces Daily for Signs of Sickness

It only needs three seconds to tell if a student is sick.

By Kristin Houser

The Earth's oceans are gradually leaking into the interior of the Earth — though nowhere near fast enough to cancel out climate change.
Science & Energy

New Research: The Oceans Are Slowly Leaking Into the Earth

Bad news, people.

By Jon Christian

By studying the plasma in the Sun's atmosphere, we could learn how to control it here on Earth and finally make fusion energy a reality.
Energy

Studying the Sun’s Atmosphere Could Make Fusion Power a Reality

Plasma is the most common form of matter in our universe, but it's extremely difficult to study.

By Victor Tangermann

Comcast is developing a healthcare device that will monitor everything from how often a person visits the bathroom to the amount of time they spend in bed.
Health & Medicine

Comcast’s New Smart Sensor Will Count How Many Times You Pee

The device could be in your home before the end of the year.

By Kristin Houser

The New York Times reports that some 25 percent of Google's controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans.
Google

Many of Google Duplex’s “AI” Phone Calls Are Made By Humans

Google is still relying heavily on humans in call centers for its supposed AI calling feature.

By Victor Tangermann

China has unveiled a prototype for a new high-speed maglev train that it believes could dramatically cut travel times in the nation.
Advanced Transport

See China’s Newly Unveiled Maglev Train

It's designed to reach a top speed of 372 miles per hour.

By Kristin Houser

NASA has awarded Maxar Technologies a contract worth a maximum of $375 million to build the lunar Gateway's power and propulsion element.
NASA

NASA Just Hired the First Contractor to Build Lunar Space Station

This lunar Gateway contract is worth up to $375 million.

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' idea for giant off-world space colonies "makes no sense."
Off-World

Elon Musk Ridicules Jeff Bezos’ Plan For Space Colonies

Musk says Bezos' idea "makes no sense."

By Jon Christian

NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft just underwent a series of extreme tests to prepare it for the intense conditions on the Red Planet's surface. 
Mars

Here’s How NASA Prepares Its Spacecraft for Mars

"This is the most comprehensive stress test you can put a spacecraft through here on Earth."

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA executive who was appointed only six weeks ago to lead the strategy for future missions to the Moon has resigned.
Moon

NASA’s Moon Mission Leader Just Quit After Only Six Weeks

Will NASA still be able to send humans to the Moon as soon as 2024?

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia announced a new hydraulic, quadrupedal robot dog, and showed the bot pulling a three-ton airplane.
Robot Dogs

Watch a Super-Strong Robot Dog Pull a Three-Ton Airplane

These bots don't fetch papers, they fetch planes.

By Jacob Banas

Two Tesla Model 3s race in a new Boring Company video, with one taking the surface streets and the other opting for the company's underground tunnel.
Tesla

Watch a Tesla in an Underground Tunnel Race One on the Street

Can you guess which car had a top speed of 127 miles per hour?

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX Just Unleashed 60 Starlink Satellites Into Orbit
SpaceX

SpaceX Just Unleashed 60 Starlink Satellites Into Orbit

60 down, and 11,940 to go.

By Victor Tangermann

Saturday night, a mile-wide asteroid called 1999 KW4 will fly by the Earth, and when it does, it'll bring with it its very own moon.
Science & Energy

Asteroid Flying by Earth Is so Big It Has Its Own Moon

"It's one of the closest binary flybys probably in recent history."

By Kristin Houser

Programmers are creating sexist AI voice assistants, which are then encouraging users to be sexist, according to a new UN report.
Artificial Intelligence

United Nations: Siri and Alexa Are Encouraging Misogyny

Today's voice assistants are facing their own "Me Too" moment.

By Kristin Houser

The Senate just voted in favor of a bipartisan bill that could put an end to spam and unsolicited marketing calls once and for all.
Future Society

New Law Could End Robocalling Once and For All

In the near future, we might chose to pick up the phone again.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discover a superconductor that works at temperatures nearly 50 Celsius degrees (84.6 Fahrenheit degrees) hotter than the previous record high.
Energy

Scientists Set New Temperature Record for Superconductivity

It’s 50 degrees closer to room-temperature.

By Kristin Houser

Imma, a CGI fashion model, just scored a make-up modeling gig for a Japanese cosmetics brand.
Artificial Intelligence

Can You Tell Which of These Models Is CGI?

The virtual model just scored her first real-life modeling gig.

By Victor Tangermann

We thought it would be fun to run some Elon Musk tweets through a neural network designed by OpenAI, the company he founded and quit.
Artificial Intelligence

We Asked an AI to Finish Real Elon Musk Tweets

"Changing Tesla's horn to be silent."

By Jon Christian