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Brain

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

Scientists have questions, tech giants have data.

Tesla

Report: In Fatal Crash, Door Handles Fail on Burning Tesla

Witnesses report that the door handles didn't work as the car burned.

Climate Change

Climate Change Is Eliminating Clouds. Without Them, Earth Burns

"It would mean the end of human civilization in its current form."

Virtual Reality

Magic Leap Wants to Build AR “Layers” Over The Entire Earth

It envisions a "Magicverse" that could "erode space and time boundaries."

Advanced Transport

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

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

Meta

Facebook Mods Are so Traumatized They’re Getting High at Work

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

Mars

Elon Musk: Mars Base Will Have “Outdoorsy, Fun Atmosphere”

"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."

Brain

Alzheimer’s Trial Will “Bathe” Patients’ Brains in Helpful Genes

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

Off-World

Jeff Bezos: In the Future, We’ll Live In “Giant Space Colonies”

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

Advanced Transport

Warren Buffett: “Electric Cars Are Very Much in America’s Future”

American automakers may innovate all on their own

Military

US Military Files Patent for Room-Temperature Superconductor

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

Moon

Israeli Moon Lander Is Carrying a Vast Backup of Human Knowledge

Just in case civilization collapses.

Advanced Transport

This Beast-Mode Electric Skateboard Goes a Ridiculous 45 MPH

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

Drones

The Maker of AK-47 Rifles Just Unveiled a “Suicide Drone”

"I think of it as democratizing smart bombs."

Mars

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Recovers After Serious Glitch

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Science & Energy

Bold New Idea: Recharge Electric Cars by Filling Them at the Pump

Fill 'er up!

Future Society

Senior Citizens Are Using an App to Order “On-Demand Grandkids”

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

Climate Change

Warren Buffett Warns of Upcoming “Megacatastrophe”

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

Future Society

China Says Its New Microwave Weapon Inflicts Horrible Pain

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

Off-World

Jeff Bezos: New Shepard Will Launch First People Into Space “This Year”

"it's not a race."