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NASA Thinks Its Opportunity Mars Rover Might Be Truly Kaput

By Kristin Houser

New York State says that Exxon Mobile played down the risks of Climate Change

New York Sues Exxon Mobil Over Climate Change Deception

By Dan Robitzski

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The EU Just Voted to Completely Ban Single-Use Plastics

By Kristin Houser

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These Tiny Drones Can Pull Objects 40 Times Their Weight

By Kristin Houser

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Virtual Reality

Incredible Augmented Reality Demo Conjures Up Ghostly Versions of Your Coworkers

By Jon Christian

Artists rendering of an Alibaba peppercorn Snickers bar produced from big data.

How Alibaba Used Big Data To Dream up a Peppercorn Snickers Bar

By Jon Christian

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Health & Medicine

Gene Therapy Could Become as Easy to Get as a Flu Shot

By Kristin Houser

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Two Cryptocurrency Heavyweights Partner on a Dollar-Backed Stablecoin

By Kristin Houser

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These Lego-like “Brixels” Could Make Your Walls Into Robots

By Jon Christian

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These Cameras Will Capture 1,000 Years of Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

A map of the United States depicting the ten states where you are most likely to lose your job to a robot.

Here Are the States Where a Robot Is Most Likely to Steal Your Job

By Kristin Houser

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The Wounded Hubble Could Be Back Soon, but It’s on Borrowed Time

By Jon Christian

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Microplastics Are Already in Our Bodies, According to a New Study

By Dan Robitzski

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Report: Amazon Tried to Sell Facial Recognition Tech to ICE

By Jon Christian

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Advanced Transport

Federal Officials Put the Brakes on a Driverless School Bus

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

This Startup Is Paying Strangers to Train AIs

By Jon Christian

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A New Test Can Screen for Every Bacteria That Causes Disease In Humans

By Kristin Houser

World Governments Want to Slice Up Antarctica When a Scientific Treaty Lifts

World Governments Want to Slice Up Antarctica When a Scientific Treaty Lifts

By Kristin Houser

Researchers: Mars Might Have Enough Oxygen For Underground Life

Researchers: Mars Might Have Enough Oxygen For Underground Life

By Jon Christian

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Future Mars Colonists Could Fly Rockets They 3D Printed Right on the Red Planet

By Jon Christian

Black Widow Spider Research Could Lead to Bulletproof Silk

Science & Energy

Black Widow Spider Research Could Lead to Bulletproof Silk

By Kristin Houser

This Super-Light Plastic Car May Be the Future of Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

This Super-Light Plastic Car May Be the Future of Electric Vehicles

By Kristin Houser

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Uber Aims to Replace Delivery Drivers With Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk: First Boring Company Tunnel Will Open December 10

Elon Musk: First Boring Company Tunnel Will Open December 10

By Kristin Houser

Creepiest robot content

New Roundup Ranks the World’s Robots by Creepiness

By Kristin Houser

Here’s What Experts Think of Stephen Hawking’s Posthumous Predictions About AI, Gene Hacking, and Religion

Here’s What Experts Think of Stephen Hawking’s Posthumous Predictions About AI, Gene Hacking, and Religion

By Jon Christian

Lose Your Job to a Robot? This Startup Wants to Help You Find Another

Lose Your Job to a Robot? This Startup Wants to Help You Find Another

By Kristin Houser

Google Adds AI Fairness Lessons to Its Machine Learning Crash Course

Google Adds AI Fairness Lessons to Its Machine Learning Crash Course

By Kristin Houser

IBM's quantum computers will change technology

IBM: Quantum Computers Could Be Useful, But We Don’t Know Exactly How

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's new gamma-ray constellastions

NASA Unveils 21 New Constellations Formed by Black Holes and Other Brutal Space Stuff

By Kristin Houser

Water.io is working on "smart caps" that tell you whether you're hydrating enough or taking all your pills, and even put in orders when you're running low.

Internet Of Things

In the Future, Even Your Dish Detergent Will be Spying on You

By Jon Christian

Tokyo-based robotics company Preferred Networks demonstrated its mostly effective but super slow tidying robots at a Japanese convention.

These Tidying Robots Clean Up Toys, Put Roomba to Shame

By Kristin Houser

CI Tau is a small star. But new research shows that its planets are absolute units, dwarfing the largest planets in our own system by an enormous margin.

These New Planets Are Massive. So Is What They Could Teach Us.

By Jon Christian

A new Microsoft patent for a circular input system could change how we type in virtual reality, making the process far more intuitive.

Virtual Reality

Typing in VR Sucks. Microsoft Has an Idea to Make It Better.

By Kristin Houser

Waymo's newly published AV safety guidelines tell law enforcement officials and first responders how they should deal with crashed AVs.

Self-Driving Vehicles

This Guide Could Dictate How Cops Handle Autonomous Car Crashes

By Kristin Houser

The USDA has lifted regulations on growing a genetically modified cotton plant with edible cottonseeds, and it could eventually help feed the world.

Science & Energy

US Farmers Can Now Grow Edible Cotton

By Kristin Houser

These ever-so-edgy novelists are using artificial intelligence to spit out new books. We're over it, to be perfectly honest.

Artificial Intelligence

Novelists Have a Boring New Gimmick: Writing Dull Books With AI

By Jon Christian

The Chinese city of Chengdu plans to launch an artificial moon into the sky to provide light during the night, eliminated the need for streetlights.

A Chinese City Plans to Replace Its Streetlights With an Artificial Moon

By Kristin Houser

When it shipped the first Apple Watch with a heart rate monitor, the tech giant didn't realize the impact it could have on users' heart health.

Health & Medicine

Big Tech Companies Want to Hack Your Heart Health

By Jon Christian

Get Ready for Pills Programmed to Respond to Your Cells’ Individual Needs

Health & Medicine

Get Ready for Pills Programmed to Respond to Your Cells’ Individual Needs

By Jon Christian

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm

By Kristin Houser

Members of the military are using Facebook to incite violence and fuel hatred against a Muslim ethic group in the Asian nation of Myanmar.

Fake Facebook Pages Spurred Genocide in Myanmar

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese-made robot can automatically zap mosquitos to stop the spread of disease. It's like a Roomba meets the Terminator.

A Toy-Sized, Laser-Wielding Robot Is Here to Kill Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

In 2017, Bina48 became the first AI-powered robot to complete a college-level course, and now, it's the first to co-teach one.

Artificial Intelligence

A Humanoid Robot Gave a Lecture in a West Point Philosophy Course

By Kristin Houser

Canada legalizing weed could be an opportunity for medical researchers who believe the cannabis plant could hold the key to promising new treatments.

Health & Medicine

Canada Legalized Weed, and It Could Be a Huge Opportunity for Scientists

By Jon Christian

Panasonic’s Horse-Style Blinders for Humans Are Like a Dystopian Cubicle For Your Face

Prosthetics and Devices

Panasonic’s Horse-Style Blinders for Humans Are Like a Dystopian Cubicle For Your Face

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found a way to predict if a person was going to be depressed by analyzing their Facebook data.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Tell if You’re Depressed by Reading Your Facebook Posts

By Victor Tangermann

This Electric Chewing Gum Never Runs out of Flavor

Virtual Reality

This Electric Chewing Gum Never Runs out of Flavor

By Kristin Houser

This Group is Giving Away Art Robots to Public Schools

This Group is Giving Away Art Robots to Public Schools

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn't about to let employee or shareholder protests stop the company from partnering with the U.S. government.

Jeff Bezos: Amazon Won’t Stop Helping the Military

By Kristin Houser

Made of Mars says it's developing the technology to convert Martian minerals into materials we can use to "build the space civilization of tomorrow."

Here’s How We’ll Build Things Using Mars’ Natural Resources

By Jon Christian

Google Is Finally Ready to Talk About Its Chinese Search Engine

Google Is Finally Ready to Talk About Its Chinese Search Engine

By Kristin Houser

According to a new report, Uber and Lyft are together responsible for half of new traffic congestion in San Francisco since 2010.

Uber and Lyft Caused Half of San Francisco’s New Traffic Congestion Since 2010

By Jon Christian

Watch the Boston Dynamics Robodog Twerk and Moonwalk to “Uptown Funk”

Boston Dynamics

Watch the Boston Dynamics Robodog Twerk and Moonwalk to “Uptown Funk”

By Kristin Houser

See a Mini Prototype of a Weird Plane With Connected Wings in Action

Advanced Transport

See a Mini Prototype of a Weird Plane With Connected Wings in Action

By Kristin Houser

A new Wall Street Journal story looks at the rise of imitation tuna, shrimp, and even smoked salmon. The surprise conclusion: It's pretty convincing.

Science & Energy

You’ve Heard of Fake Meat. How About Fake Fish?

By Jon Christian

MIT announced a billion-dollar initiative Monday that will reorganize the tech school to confront the rise of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Pledges $1 Billion to Develop Ethical AI

By Jon Christian

Vaccination rates amongst children in the United States have decreased in recent years, according to a new report from the CDC.

Health & Medicine

The Percentage of Unvaccinated U.S. Toddlers Has Quadrupled Since 2001

By Kristin Houser

Laws outlining China's expectations for tech companies in a Muslim-heavy region add to the morally questionable nature of Google's Project Dragonfly.

China Wants Google’s Help Persecuting Muslims. Google Appears Ready to Give It.

By Kristin Houser

The Royal Society pledged to publish studies that attempt to replicate any research that it's published. Other journals should do the same.

Science & Energy

An Academic Publisher Challenges Its Peers: Verify the Research You Publish

By Dan Robitzski

The number of AI-trained job-seekers simply isn't high enough to meet the demand for these employees, according to a new Reuters report.

Artificial Intelligence

A Shortage of Trained Job-Seekers Is Holding AI Back

By Kristin Houser

Climate Change and Gene Editing Are Spurring a Tech Boom in Agriculture

Climate Change and Gene Editing Are Spurring a Tech Boom in Agriculture

By Jon Christian

When a cybersecurity disaster strikes, IBM's cyberpunk new vehicle can roll up like a SWAT team of hackers, screech to a halt and deal with the intrusion.

IBM Built a Menacing Black Truck for “Cybersecurity Incident Response”

By Jon Christian

Medical science has yet to invent anti-aging tech more effective than exercise and a healthy diet. But that's never stopped the super-rich from dreaming.

Prosthetics and Devices

The Quest for Immortality Could Create Two “Classes of Humans”

By Jon Christian