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Researchers from Colorado State University created a robot that can melt and re-harden parts of its skeleton to adapt to new challenges.
Robotics

See a Robot Melt Its Own Bones to Avoid Obstacles

That's pretty metal.

By Kristin Houser

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly announced Tuesday that he's running for Senate in Arizona — and positioned himself as a defender of science.
NASA

NASA Astronaut Runs for Senate, Warns Of “Retreat From Science”

"There are a lot of powerful interests who want to stop us."

By Jon Christian

Researchers at ETH Zurich designed a robot that can teach itself how to ice skate. It could one day be used during search and rescue missions.
Robotics

Watch an Ice Skating Robot Play Hockey

"The only thing we tell it is how one ice skate behaves on ice."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of security researchers found a flaw in Xiaomi's M365 electric scooter. They were able to remotely control a scooter in a matter of hours.
Advanced Transport

Hackers Can Access Your Electric Scooter While You’re Riding It

Xiaomi’s M365 scooter has a security bug that lets a hacker control the throttle and brakes.

By Dan Robitzski

A newly released Pentagon report details the laser weapons likely in development by China and Russia to attack U.S. satellites.
Off-World

Pentagon Warns That Enemies Could Shoot US Satellites With Lasers

China and Russia are "likely" developing "laser weapons to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellites."

By Kristin Houser

Resarchers suggest that we will need larger rockets to land heavy payloads on the surface of Mars rather than bigger parachutes.
Mars

New Idea to Land Heavy Payloads on Mars: Dive, Then Turn Nose Up

Please put your seatbacks and tray tables in upright position.

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla owner claims his car crashed because he wasn't able to disengage its Autopilot feature, but Tesla isn't buying his excuse.
Tesla

Tesla Driver Claims Autopilot Wouldn’t Let Him Prevent Crash

Tesla isn’t buying his story.

By Kristin Houser

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car
Facial recognition

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car

The patent was filed before massive layoffs at Apple’s self-driving car division.

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Project Debater, an AI system that composes arguments, recently lost a debate to a world-renowned human debating expert.
Artificial Intelligence

A Human Debater Just Roasted IBM’s “Intelligent Debate” AI Onstage

Project Debater can formulate arguments, but can’t quite refute opponents.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the First Light Fusion group in Oxford are planning to demonstrate fusion by mid-2019 and the creation of fusion energy by 2024.
Energy

This Startup Wants Its Fusion Reactor to Actually Produce Power

And they just powered it on for the first time.

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors have implanted the first wireless heart pump in a patient, eliminating the need for him to be connected to a power source via a driveline.
Health & Medicine

New Bionic Heart Charges Wirelessly Inside Patient’s Chest

A 24-year-old man is the first in the world to receive this type of implant.

By Kristin Houser

A team of UK scientists are building a robot called Ai-Da that can sketch and draw the way she sees the world around her.
Artificial Intelligence

A Fleshy New Humanoid Sketches You, Mimics Your Facial Expressions

Her first art pieces will go on display in a gallery in November.

By Victor Tangermann

A combination of molecules could making repairing the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease and other brain injuries as easy as swallowing a pill.
Brain

New Drug Combo Could Repair the Brains of Alzheimer’s Patients

Repairing brain damage could one day be as simple as taking a pill.

By Kristin Houser

The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills
Medical

The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills

Newly-proposed guidelines say sensor-equipped pills are devices or pharmaceuticals but not both.

By Dan Robitzski

Anonymous contractors at Apple's so-called "black site," a low-key office for Apple Maps development, described grim working conditions.
Future Society

Apple Runs A “Black Site” That a Worker Called “Dehumanizing”

“It was made pretty plain to us that we were at-will employees and they would fire us at any time,”

By Dan Robitzski

Dating App for Smart Fridges Matches Singles Based on Leftovers
Future Society

Dating App for Smart Fridges Matches Singles Based on Leftovers

And, yes, it's called "refrigerdating."

By Jon Christian

Despite a plummeting cryptocurrency market, many young South Koreans are still dreaming of getting rich.
Blockchain

Low-Income Koreans Got Rich on the Blockchain, Then Lost it All

Maybe more than anywhere else on Earth, South Korea embraced blockchain as an element of pop culture.

By Victor Tangermann

Google is letting a select few users test out a new AR navigation feature for its Maps app, providing a glimpse of the future of navigation.
Google

Google Is Rolling out AR Navigation for Its Maps App

"It was as if Maps had drawn my directions onto the real world, though nobody else could see them."

By Kristin Houser

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump will reportedly sign the American AI Initiative, an executive order designed to shape the future of AI in the nation.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump Orders Federal Agencies to “Prioritize AI”

A new executive order could cement the U.S.'s place as the world leader in AI. Or not.

By Kristin Houser

An AI system can scan photos of child trafficking victims in hotel rooms and determine where they were taken based on the furniture in the room.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using AI to Find Hotel Rooms Being Used for Child Sex Trafficking

"Here's what a headboard looks like if it's from this hotel."

By Dan Robitzski