Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed in his new book that Taylor Swift threatened to sue the company over "Tay" the Twitter chatbot-turned-Nazi.

Big Reputation

Apparently "Tay" was too close to Swift's name for comfort.

Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened Microsoft Over Racist Chatbot

Facebook has announced a trio of new initiatives designed to prevent suicide and self-harm amongst the platform's many users.

Stay Safe

The social network has a trio of new initiatives in the works.

Facebook Announces New Efforts to Prevent Suicide and Self-Harm

As brain-computer interface and neural implant technology improves, the Royal Society argues we may soon be able to communicate telepathically.

Brain Link

"Not only thoughts, but sensory experiences, could be communicated from brain to brain."

Scientists: Brain Implants Could Essentially Make Us Telepathic

A new video shows a Tesla driver asleep at the wheel while his car, presumably with Autopilot mode enabled, cruises down the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Asleep At The Wheel

"Wow, I was just driving next to somebody who was completely asleep on the Mass Pike."

Watch a Tesla Driver Cruise Down the Highway Completely Asleep

Researchers at MIT invented a chameleon-like "reprogrammable ink" that allows you to "paint" colors onto a surface using a projector and UV light.

New Ink

This special spray could allow you to change the color of your shoes every morning.

New Tech Can Switch Your Car's Paint Job "Like a Chameleon"

Virgin Galactic plans to start selling tickets to space next year. By 2023, it will launch a shuttlefull of passengers every 32 hours.

VIP Access

If every flight is fully booked, more than 3,000 people would launch into space in the next few years.

Virgin Galactic's Plan: Send Tourists to Space Every 32 Hours

In 2011, Elon Musk and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein both attended an exclusive "Billionaires' Dinner" in Long Beach, Calif.

Bad Company

Tesla declined to answer questions about Musk rubbing shoulders with the convicted sex offender.

Elon Musk Got a Posh "Billionaires' Dinner" With Jeffrey Epstein

A team of scientists on board the International Space Station have successfully mixed cement in the microgravity of space.

Space Cement

Concrete could open a lot of doors for constructing habitats in space.

For the First Time Ever, Astronauts Mix Cement in Space

General John Raymnd, head of the newly-formed U.S. Space Command, clarified that he'll seek to first deter space combat but would still be ready to fight.

Space War

What could possibly go wrong?

Head of US Space Command: Space Is "Clearly a Warfighting Domain"

Google has banned ads hawking unproven or experimental medical treatments and therapies, including many stem cell and gene therapies.

Scam Detected

It's taking a stand against sellers of bogus health treatments.

Google Finally Bans Dangerous Miracle Cure Ads

Scientists are suggesting that the methane-filled lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan could have been formed by massive explosions.

Blowed Up

Pockets of warming nitrogen gas could've blown massive craters into the moon's surface.

Huge Explosions May Have Formed Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan

Shawn Rosenberg, a prominent psychologist at the University of California, Irvine told the crowd at a recent meeting of the International Society of Political Psychologists that "democracy is devouring itself," Politico reports.

Hail Hydra

"In sum, the majority of Americans are generally unable to understand or value democratic culture, institutions, practices or citizenship in the manner required."

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