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In a surprise announcement by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey today, the platform has decided to ban all political ads across the globe starting November 22nd.

Breaking: Twitter CEO Announces Total Political Ads Ban

By Victor Tangermann

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks

By Kristin Houser

AI-AItech, the company behind a sex robot named Emma, plans to release a more realistic model that can walk, move its arms, and breathe in and out.

This Company Invented a Sex Robot That Breathes

By Dan Robitzski

A new visualization shows just how vast space is by taking people from the size of an astronaut to that of the entire universe.

Science & Energy

This Amazing Visualization Shows You How Big Space Really Is

By Dan Robitzski

The latest from music coding group Dadabots is a neural net trained on Cannibal Corpse music and lyrics that writes endless metal about killing humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Trained a Neural Net Using a Cannibal Corpse Album

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk announced Tuesday that he's donating $1 million worth of trees to a campaign by YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, better known as "MrBeast."

Elon Musk Donates a Million Dollars to Plant a Million Trees

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center believe the recently discovered interstellar comet 2I/Borisov may hold water.

Science & Energy

NASA Scientists Say Interstellar Object May Hold Alien Water

By Victor Tangermann

By the year 2069, digital personhood — the granting of rights to machines — could be the norm, a tech expert told Pew Research Center.

Expert: Software Could Have “Personhood” by 2069

By Kristin Houser

NASA has released an image for Halloween that looks like a ghostly face but is actually two galaxies colliding some 704 million light-years away.

Science & Energy

Colliding Galaxies Look Like the Glowing Eyes of a Ghostly Face

By Kristin Houser

A Russian security researcher, claims to have accidentally identified some troubling vulnerabilities in the firmware of Xiaomi FurryTail smart pet feeders.

Internet Of Things

Flaw in Smart Pet Feeders Lets Hackers Overfeed Your Cat

By Victor Tangermann

The same person responsible for the Tesla pickup truck design created a concept called the Model Zero, and it could hold clues to the truck's appearance.

These Images May Hold Clues About Tesla’s “Cyberpunk” Truck

By Kristin Houser

Players of the game "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" are using the game's loot boxes and Steam Community Market as a massive money laundering scheme.

Criminals Are Using Video Game Loot Boxes to Launder Money

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT researchers claim to have developed a new technology that allows driverless cars to see around corners to make them safer.

Advanced Transport

MIT Research Lets Driverless Cars Spot Obstacles Around Corners

By Victor Tangermann

A Pentagon report found that Army soldiers' heavy reliance on bottled water won't be sustainable in the future due to climate change.

Science & Energy

US Army Says Thirsty Soldiers Are Drinking Too Much Bottled Water

By Kristin Houser

Five months after returning a rented Ford Expedition, a man can still use a connected Ford app to control the vehicle's doors and engine.

Advanced Transport

Ford App Lets Man Control Rental Car He Returned Months Ago

By Kristin Houser

An LA judge ruled that a jury and trial will decide on the fake of Elon Musk after the billionaire made off-color comments about a British cave diver.

It’s Official: Elon Musk Will Go to Trial Over “Pedo” Comments

By Victor Tangermann

A tracked eagle spent five months in an area without data coverage, racking up enough roaming charges to wipe a research team's entire budget.

Science & Energy

Eagle With Tracking Device Racks up Enormous Roaming Charges

By Kristin Houser

A free-to-play video game like Oregon Trail called "Climate Trail" imagines an apocalyptic world in which we failed to fight climate change.

This Game Is “Oregon Trail” Meets Climate Catastrophe

By Victor Tangermann

A Samsung "SpaceSelfie" satellite came crashing down to Earth, landing onto an unsuspecting Michigan farm below, NBC reports.

A Samsung Satellite Just Crashed Into a Michigan Farm

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just publicly presented the first ever images of the German space agency's (DLR) X-ray telescope eROSITA. And they're magnificent.

Science & Energy

Here Are The First-Ever Images From the Dark Matter Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Dubai has unveiled the world's largest two-story 3D-printed building, a 31-foot-tall structure covering an area of 6,889 square feet.

Watch a Massive 3D-Printed Building Take Shape

By Kristin Houser

Wealthy people in California are choosing to supplement local government firefighting services with the help of third-party private contractor firefighters.

Wealthy Californians Are Hiring Private Firefighters

By Victor Tangermann

A military robot demonstrates its shooting skills in a new parody video created by Los Angeles-based production studio Corridor Digital.

CGI Video Shows Military Robot Flipping a Table of Guns

By Kristin Houser

The asteroid Hygiea is actually our solar system's smallest dwarf planet, astronomers determine using Very Large Telescope data.

Scientists Detect the Smallest Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System

By Kristin Houser

A team of surgeons from Charlotte, North Carolina have demonstrated new surgery robot technology by carving a jack-o-lantern and removing its seeds.

Watch a Surgery Robot Operate on a Jack-o’-Lantern

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT engineers claims to have built a carbon capture system that could remove carbon dioxide from the environment at an industrial scale.

MIT Scientists Say They Found a New Way to Scrub Atmospheric CO2

By Dan Robitzski

Population control wouldn't solve climate change, several experts recently told CBC News, as it doesn't address a number of other contributing factors.

Experts: Population Control Won’t Solve Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

There's a correlation between the prices of avocados and the price of Bitcoin. It's all-but-certainly a fluke, but certainly a bizarre one.

There’s a Correlation Between the Price of Bitcoin and Avocados

By Dan Robitzski

This Electric Toothbrush Uses AI Because Nothing is Sacred Anymore

By Victor Tangermann

Many AI researchers are not fans of the "Terminator" movies as they worry the films misrepresent the abilities — and dangers — of artificial intelligences.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Researchers Hate The “Terminator” Movies With a Passion

By Kristin Houser

During his recent Congressional hearing, Mark Zuckerberg was asked if he would ever spend a day moderating Facebook. He wasn't keen on the idea.

Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Look at Horrible Facebook Gore

By Dan Robitzski

The White House cybersecurity team is in turmoil, according to an internal memo in which a senior member announces his resignation.

A Top White House Cybersecurity Director Just Quit In Disgust

By Kristin Houser

Those "personal food computers" from the MIT Media Lab that were supposed to help refugees grow crops on the move never worked, its creator's bold claims.

MIT Researcher Lied About Feeding Refugees With “Food Computers”

By Dan Robitzski

Venus is covered in mountains made of crystal, which scientists now think are formed by lava made of "crystal mush" that squeezes through the crust.

Science & Energy

Venus Is Covered in Gigantic Crystal Volcanoes

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists from the universities of Alberta and Toronto have laid out the "blueprints" for a "quantum battery" that never loses its charge.

Quantum Computing

This “Quantum Battery” Never Loses Its Charge

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX “Definitely” Plans to Land Starship on Moon by 2022

SpaceX “Definitely” Plans to Land Starship on Moon by 2022

By Victor Tangermann

Los Angeles is working with TechniSoil Industrial to repave a road using a mixture of recycled plastic and existing asphalt.

Science & Energy

Los Angeles Is Building a Road From Recycled Plastic Bottles

By Kristin Houser

Scientists argue that they figured out how to spot wormholes, should any of the theoretical cosmic portals actually exist.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Finally Figured Out How to Spot Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

A future space war won't look like "Star Wars." Instead it'll be almost imperceptible on the planet's surface.

This Is What a Space War Would Look Like, According to Experts

By Victor Tangermann

In a distant star system, two fully-formed exoplanets crashed into each other, leaving an unusual trail of space dust and debris in their wake.

Science & Energy

Two Exoplanets Collided, Leaving a Trail of Planetary Gore

By Dan Robitzski

The companies developing lab-grown meat won’t stop at just beef and chicken — they’ll likely cultivate exotic meats, too.

These Startups Want to Feed You Lab-Grown Giraffe, Elephant Meat

By Kristin Houser

A Pentagon report predicts that American infrastructure and the U.S. military could collapse within 20 years due to the ravages of climate change.

Pentagon Report Predicts Collapse of US Military Within 20 Years

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.

NASA’s Collaborating With Caterpillar on Moon Mining Machines

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla says vehicles with Autopilot engaged were involved in one accident for every 4.34 million miles driven during the third quarter of 2019.

Tesla: Autopilot Is Nearly 9 Times Safer Than the Average Driver

By Kristin Houser

Raytheon just delivered a functional laser cannon to the Air Force, designed specifically to take down swarms of hostile drones.

The Air Force Just Got a Brutal New Laser Cannon

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers have spotted a rocky planet with three suns, which greatly increases its chance of having its own atmosphere.

Science & Energy

This Rocky World With Three Suns May Have an Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook COO insists that the company doesn't run political ads, honest or not, for the money. It's all for the important "political discourse."

Facebook: Misleading Political Ads Are Important “Discourse”

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft researchers have developed DreamWalker, a new VR system that lets a user walk a route in the real world while looking at virtual scenery.

Virtual Reality

New Microsoft Tech Lets You Use VR While Walking Outside

By Kristin Houser

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Tesla in Broward County, alleging 48-year-old Omar Awan's death was caused by Tesla's special door handles.

Lawsuit Blames Tesla’s Retracting Door Handles for Fiery Death

By Victor Tangermann

We could pause global warming for 15 to 20 years if we're willing to spend $300 billion to restore billions of acres of land, say UN scientists.

UN Scientists: We Could Pause Global Warming With $300 Billion

By Kristin Houser

MIT scientist Andrew McAfee argues that capitalism can prevent food and commodity shortages even in the face of worsened climate change.

MIT Scientist: Capitalism Will Solve Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

According to a Wednesday tweet by CEO Elon Musk, the cameras mounted above rear view mirrors of Model 3s are "meant for robotaxi."

Elon Musk: Camera Inside Teslas is “Meant for Robotaxi” Mode

By Victor Tangermann

A satirical app called "Bull and Moon" recommends stocks to people based on their astrological sign, offering a "compatibility score" for companies.

Robots and Machines

Investment App Recommends Stocks Based on Your Horoscope

By Dan Robitzski

The New York Times (NYT) fired its Senior Director of Information Security and eliminated the position, leaving reporters to defend themselves from hackers.

The NYT Fired the Person Who Protects Its Reporters From Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

On the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, Edward Snowden told Rogan that he "couldn't find anything" about aliens despite having "ridiculous access."

Edward Snowden Searched For Evidence That Gov Is Hiding Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency is about to test if an astronaut on board the International Space Station is capable of taking control of Moon rovers from space.

Astronauts Are About to Take Control of a Mars Rover, From Space

By Victor Tangermann

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

Quantum Physics

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

By Victor Tangermann

A browser game called "Aim and Shoot" pits the player against human-hunting neural networks that learn to become increasingly deadly.

Artificial Intelligence

In This Browser Game, Your Opponents Are Neural Networks

By Dan Robitzski

New data reveals that hospitals in the United Kingdom treat more patients for heart attacks and strokes on days with worse air pollution.

Study: Strokes, Heart Attacks Spike on Days With Poor Air Quality

By Kristin Houser

A strange "contaminant" hitchhiked on the glove of NASA astronaut Christine Koch's spacesuit and made its way back into the station.

Science & Energy

Something “Contaminated” Spacesuit During NASA Spacewalk

By Victor Tangermann

California-based company Made in Space is launching a special machine to the ISS that can turn plastic waste into feedstock for the comapny's 3D printer.

New Machine on ISS Will Turn Trash Into “Ink” For 3D Printers

By Victor Tangermann

California just legalized eating roadkill, but only if people sign into an app to log the crash and get meat salvage permit.

Science & Energy

California Legalizes Eating Roadkill, But Only Through an App

By Dan Robitzski

German startup Lilium has released the first video of its five-seater air taxi flying horizontally, which the company says it can do at 62 miles per hour.

Advanced Transport

Watch a Five-Seater Air Taxi Soar Over a Beautiful Countryside

By Kristin Houser

The ozone hole above Antarctica is the smallest it's been since scientists first began observing it in 1982, according to NASA and the NOAA.

Science & Energy

Good News: The Ozone Hole Is Smaller Than We’ve Ever Seen It

By Kristin Houser