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Recent claims that AI can pick up facial expressions to determine how you're feeling are almost certainly wrong, a Microsoft AI expert argues.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Scientist: Emotion-Reading AI Is Doomed To Fail

The value of fell down to just below $50,000, the first time it did so since early March. Analysts suggest it could be related to Biden's capital gains tax.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Crashes, Wiping Over $200 Billion Off Crypto Market

To SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the only way to "make life multiplanetary" is to "create rapidly and fully reusable orbital rockets."
Starship

Elon Musk Celebrates Starship Landing: “Needed to Make Life Multiplanetary”

Space Tango, a Kentucky-based space startup, is planning to launch its own tiny orbital research platform in a matter of just two years.
Off-World

Kentucky Startup Plans to Launch Teeny Tiny Space Station

Biden's FCC is finally starting to crack down on robocallers, enacting a law that gives them the power to give out fines.
Future Society

The United States Says It’s Finally Cracking Down on Robocalls

Robot creator Boston Dynamics has released its next dastardly take on God's creations: the "Stretch," forever destined to stack boxes in warehouses.
Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Shows Off New Warehouse Robot

The Russian Army is setting up its first armed military unit that features killer robotic tanks, as state news agency TASS reports.
Robotics

Russia Is Setting Up First Military Unit With Killer Robot Tanks

A man from Scandinavia says he was paired with his younger self doing explicit sexual acts when he recently logged back on to Omegle.
Future Society

Guy Logs Onto Omegle and Gets Matched With Himself, Doing Explicit Acts

Killer drones are already making airstrikes without any humans involved in the decision making, according to a recent UN report. 
Robots and Machines

Academics: Ban the Killer “Slaughterbots” Before We All Die

Walmart thought building robots to track stores' inventories would make things easier, but the project ultirmately fell short.
Robotics

Walmart Is Giving Up on Its Inventory Robots

The first livable 3D-printed house in the U.S. is on sale in Long Island for $300,000, considerably cheaper than its neighbors.
Science & Energy

First 3D Printed House Goes on Sale in United States

Andrew Yang is officially running for mayor of New York City on a campaign that promises to bring universal basic income to the city.
Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang Proposes Basic Income For New York City

A congressional advisory panel concluded that the U.S. shouldn't ban killer robots or AI because for all the military knows they could be a good thing.
Artificial Intelligence

Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

NASA launched a new citizen science project called Planet Patrol that asks for the public to help identify new exoplanets.
Science & Energy

New Website Lets You Help NASA Find Alien Worlds

A new vertical farm opening on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, is set to start producing 1,000 metric tons of greens a year.
Science & Energy

This Massive New Vertical Farm Can Produce 1,000 Tons of Produce a Year

Consumer Reports has determined that Tesla's Autopilot driving assistance feature is "a distant second" to General Motors' Super Cruise.
Tesla

Consumer Reports: Tesla Autopilot “Distant Second” to GM’s Driver Assistance

Toyota has patented an autonomous refueling system that could allow for cars to top up their gasoline tanks, hydrogen fuel cells or batteries on the go.
Drones

Toyota Patents Autonomous Battery Drone That Recharges Your Car

A top British general speculated that in the 2030s, robot soldiers could make up as much as a quarter of the British army.
Robotics

Top General Says “Robot Soldiers” Could Make Up 25 Percent of British Army

Using a new toolkit that scientists are calling a "robot hotel," a robot just scanned the outside of the International Space Station for coolant leaks.
Robotics

NASA Is Using a Robot to Search for Leaks Outside the Space Station

AI legal expert Frank Pasquale says that Asimov's laws of robotics are outdated, and he has some ideas for new ones to supplement them.
Robots and Machines

Professor: Asimov’s Laws Are Outdated and It’s Time to Write More