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SpaceX Just Launched A Rocket With A Critical Reused Part

SpaceX Just Launched A Rocket With A Critical Reused Part

By Alexandra Ossola

Waymo’s Phoenix Project Could Tell Us If Self-Driving Cars Can Improve Public Transportation

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Phoenix Project Could Tell Us If Self-Driving Cars Can Improve Public Transportation

By Kristin Houser

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round

The U.S. Has a New Plan to Deter Would-Be Hackers

Science & Energy

The U.S. Has a New Plan to Deter Would-Be Hackers

By Kristin Houser

Someone Just Used a Drone to Try to Assassinate a World Leader

Someone Just Used a Drone to Try to Assassinate a World Leader

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Is Asking Banks to Share Data on Customers’ Spending Habits

Facebook Is Asking Banks to Share Data on Customers’ Spending Habits

By Kristin Houser

Human volunteers were less likely to turn off humanoid robot Nao when it protested, particularly when the outburst of emotion was unexpected.

Humanoid Robots Can Manipulate Our Emotions When We Least Expect It

By Kristin Houser

The city of Cupertino is hoping Apple will be willing to heavily subsidize the construction of a hyperloop to ease the city's transportation woes.

Apple May Prove Powerful Enough to Get the U.S. Its First Hyperloop

By Kristin Houser

Starbucks is teaming up with ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, on a new crypto platform called Bakkt.

Starbucks’s New Crypto Platform Could Bring Bitcoin Into the Mainstream

By Kristin Houser

The Elon Musk that chatted with investors and reporters during the Q2 2018 earnings call was a far cry from the erratic Musk we've come to know.

Rising Stocks Show Tesla Investors Are Warming up to Musk’s Cool Attitude

By Kristin Houser

According to new NASA estimates, Elon Musk's SpaceX will be ready for a crewed test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft in April 2019.

SpaceX Will Be Ready to Transport Humans in April 2019, NASA Estimates

By Kristin Houser

Two teams of researchers have used gene-editing tool CRISPR to decrease the number of chromosomes in baker's yeast from 16 to one or two.

Science & Energy

Engineers Use CRISPR to Create A New Species With Just One Chromosome

By Kristin Houser

The new Conservative government of Ontario has decided to end the city's basic income trial two years early, citing the high cost.

Universal Basic Income

Ontario Ends Its Three-Year Basic Income Trial After Just One Year

By Kristin Houser

The cod population in the Gulf of Alaska is at the lowest levels ever recording, which is wreaking havoc on the state's economy.

Science & Energy

A Warm Water Mass Called “The Blob” Is Killing Alaska’s Cod

By Kristin Houser

Think You Could Do More if You Just Had an Extra Hand? You’re Probably Right.

Prosthetics and Devices

Think You Could Do More if You Just Had an Extra Hand? You’re Probably Right.

By Kristin Houser

Through a series of experiments, UK researchers identify abiogenesis zones around stars, helping narrow down the list of planets that could form life.

Science & Energy

Scientists Shed New Light on What Life-Producing Planets Require

By Kristin Houser

Researchers successfully transplanted lab-grown lungs into four pigs, with none of the animals rejecting the lungs within two months of the surgery.

Health & Medicine

We Can Now Successfully Transplant Lab-Grown Lungs in Pigs

By Kristin Houser

Leaked documents reveal Google's plan to launch a censored search engine in China, a nation that strictly monitors the content its citizens can access.

Google’s Censored Chinese Search Engine Shows It’s No Longer Afraid of U.S. Backlash

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Just Shut Down Dozens of Fake Pages

Facebook Just Shut Down Dozens of Fake Pages

By Victor Tangermann

A new NASA-funded study drawing on 20 years of research says we simply can't terraform Mars using technology available today.

Scientists Say We Can’t Terraform Mars. Elon Musk Says We Can.

By Kristin Houser

OpenAi just unveiled Dactyl, an AI system trained to control a robot hand using the same algorithms used to train computer game playing AIs.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”

By Kristin Houser

Uber just announced plans to shutter its self-driving truck division, at least temporarily, while it focuses on its self-driving cars.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Uber Kills Self-Driving Truck Division, Clearing the Road for Tesla

By Kristin Houser

The latest clean transportation offering from Elon Musk is the Tesla surfboard, a $1,500 limited edition short board that sold out almost immediately.

Tesla Launches A $1,500 Surfboard, Sells out Almost Immediately

By Kristin Houser

Researchers discover that leopard geckos can regenerate parts of their brain, potentially opening up a new area of research in treating the human brain.

Science & Energy

Geckos Can Regenerate Parts of Their Brain, Which Could Help Us Heal Our Own

By Kristin Houser

The TSA's Quiet Skies program instructs teams of armed air marshals to track U.S. citizens through airports and aboard domestic flights.

For TSA’s “Quiet Skies” Program, Air Marshals Followed Travelers’ Every Move

By Kristin Houser

Dentists Are Now Using Tech to Monitor Patients’ Stress Levels

Dentists Are Now Using Tech to Monitor Patients’ Stress Levels

By Kristin Houser

23andMe has signed an agreement to no longer parter with anyone but British pharmaceutical company GSK on any drug discovery projects.

Science & Energy

23andMe is Teaming Up With A Pharma Company. You Shouldn’t Be Surprised.

By Kristin Houser

Virgin Galactic successfully completed the third supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane.

Surprise! Virgin Galactic Just Did A Test Launch of Its SpaceShipTwo Spaceplane

By Kristin Houser

Amazon's facial recognition software is far from perfect, an ACLU experiment shows. Maybe Amazon should stop marketing it to government agencies.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Rekognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress to Mugshots

By Kristin Houser

Australian researchers have created a purposefully biased AI to illustrate the problems such systems could cause in the future.

Artificial Intelligence

The “Biometric Mirror” Judges You The Way We’ve Taught It To: With Bias

By Kristin Houser

Congressional lawmakers just agreed on a defense bill for 2019 that does not include funding for the establishment of a space force.

Trump’s Space Force Isn’t in Congress’ 2019 Spending Bill

By Kristin Houser

After internet monitors repeatedly removed an article detailing the unsafe vaccines in China, citizens added it to the Ethereum blockchain.

Chinese Citizens Are Using Blockchain to Warn Each Other of Unsafe Vaccines

By Kristin Houser

According to Europe's highest court, gene-edited crops are genetically modified organisms and should be regulated the same way as GMOs.

Science & Energy

Gene-Edited Crops Are Officially GMOs, European Court Rules

By Kristin Houser

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars

By Kristin Houser

By adding a seemingly harmless pop up to popular BlockExplorer site Etherscan, a hacker may have prevented a far more nefarious hack from taking place.

Hacker Exposes Security Vulnerability in Popular Cryptocurrency Site Etherscan

By Kristin Houser

Chinese officials are determined to bring to justice Changsheng Bio-Tech, a manufacturer selling unsafe vaccines for rabies and DPT.

Health & Medicine

China Is Cracking Down on a Company Selling Unsafe Vaccines

By Kristin Houser

The Department of Homeland Security revealed in a briefing that Russians hacked U.S. utility companies

Yes, Russians Hacked U.S. Electric Companies, Homeland Security Confirms

By Kristin Houser

DARPA has announced a new program focused on funding projects focused on third wave AI, the kind that can understand and explain its answers.

Artificial Intelligence

DARPA Is Funding Research Into AI That Can Explain What It’s “Thinking”

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers have created nanobots that can travel via an aerosol spray, potentially opening up a new field in robotics.

MIT Researchers Create an Aerosol Spray Loaded With Nanobots

By Kristin Houser

Tesla's refund request to suppliers is raising eyebrows in the financial world, with some calling it "ludicrous" and "desperate."

Tesla Is Reportedly Asking Suppliers to Refund Payments To Have More Cash On Hand

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military's AI center will help the nation's armed forces develop and implement the latest in artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

U.S. Military Declares Mandate on AI: “We Want to Be the Threat”

By Kristin Houser

VR horror game Bring to Light adjusts gameplay based on feedback from a heart rate monitor

Virtual Reality

This VR Horror Game Is Exactly as Scary as Your Body Can Handle

By Kristin Houser

Federal Agencies Propose Major Changes to Endangered Species Act

Federal Agencies Propose Major Changes to Endangered Species Act

By Kristin Houser

Chinese state-backed companies just made huge investments in U.S. based Hyperloop startups. But will it solve China's stifling traffic problems?

China Is Investing In Its Own Hyperloop To Clear Its Crowded Highways

By Victor Tangermann

WhatsApp has announced plans to update how users forward content, presumably in an effort to address mob violence in India.

WhatsApp Updates Controls in India in an Effort to Thwart Mob Violence

By Kristin Houser

Malta has announced plans to created the world's first decentralized stock exchange

Malta Plans to Create the World’s First Decentralized Stock Exchange

By Kristin Houser

Alphabet has inked a deal with a Kenyan telecom to bring its balloon-powered internet to rural and suburban parts of Kenya

Alphabet Will Bring Its Balloon-Powered Internet to Kenya

By Kristin Houser

Google agreed to work with UN Environment to create a platform that gives the world access to valuable environmental data.

Google and The UN Team Up To Study The Effects of Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

This Wearable Controller Lets You Pilot a Drone With Your Body

This Wearable Controller Lets You Pilot a Drone With Your Body

By Kristin Houser

Rolls Royce just unveiled the latest iteration of its cockroach-like robots designed to enter airplane engines and help repair them.

Rolls-Royce Is Building Cockroach-Like Robots to Fix Plane Engines

By Kristin Houser

Hundreds of AI experts just signed a pledge vowing to never develop lethal autonomous weapons and calling for their global ban.

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Experts Vow They Won’t Help Create Lethal Autonomous Weapons

By Kristin Houser

The EU just fined Google $5 billion for violating antitrust laws designed to prevent market leaders from stifling competition.

EU Fines Google $5 Billion for Stifling Android’s Competition

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a dodecahedron-shaped device for collecting marine life that may be too fragile for traditional methods.

Origami-Inspired Device Catches Fragile Sea Creatures Without Harming Them

By Kristin Houser

Blue Origin launched another New Shepard rocket, successfully engaging its capsule's emergency motor after separation.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard Rocket Aces Important Test

By Kristin Houser

Creating Genetically Modified Babies Is “Morally Permissible,” Says Ethics Committee

Creating Genetically Modified Babies Is “Morally Permissible,” Says Ethics Committee

By Kristin Houser

Manufacturer Confirms Installing Remote-Access Software on U.S. Voting Machines

Manufacturer Confirms Installing Remote-Access Software on U.S. Voting Machines

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS

SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS

By Kristin Houser

The FDA Just Approved a Drug to Keep Us a Little Safer From Another Pandemic

Health & Medicine

The FDA Just Approved a Drug to Keep Us a Little Safer From Another Pandemic

By Kristin Houser

Uber and Lyft Still Allow Racist Behavior, but Not as Much as Taxi Services

Uber and Lyft Still Allow Racist Behavior, but Not as Much as Taxi Services

By Kristin Houser

The UK Just Confirmed the Location of Its First Spaceport

The UK Just Confirmed the Location of Its First Spaceport

By Kristin Houser

We Knew Russian Hackers Infiltrated Americans’ Inboxes. Now We Know How.

We Knew Russian Hackers Infiltrated Americans’ Inboxes. Now We Know How.

By Kristin Houser

Hinge Is Using a New Algorithm to Identify Your “Most Compatible” Mate

Artificial Intelligence

Hinge Is Using a New Algorithm to Identify Your “Most Compatible” Mate

By Kristin Houser

We May Have Reached a Turning Point in the Opioid Crisis, Report Implies

Health & Medicine

We May Have Reached a Turning Point in the Opioid Crisis, Report Implies

By Kristin Houser

Have a Problem With Your Internet Provider? The FCC Doesn’t Want to Hear About It

Have a Problem With Your Internet Provider? The FCC Doesn’t Want to Hear About It

By Kristin Houser