The first expedition for Boaty McBoatface has taught researchers something new about how climate change in Antarctic waters affects the rest of the world.

No Joke

"The data from Boaty McBoatface gave us a completely new way of looking at the deep ocean."

Boaty McBoatface Makes Major Discovery on Maiden Voyage

Earlier this month, researchers from Australia's Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration published research containing a dire warning: prevent and reverse climate change or face the end of human civilization as we know it.

11:59:59

If human civilization is to survive, they'll have to do better.

Doomsday Report Author: Earth's Leaders Have Failed

The inward migration of a recently formed exoplanet is causing never-before-seen structures to form in its host star's protoplanetary disk.

Stunning Sight

Stunning images show how it's sculpting the dust into thin rings.

A Baby Exoplanet Is Creating Strange Dust Rings Around Its Star

Surveillance cameras will only get more sophisticated and harder to avoid, so privacy expert William Webster calls for increased transparency.

Surveillance State

Cameras will continue to grow smarter, smaller, and more ubiquitous.

Privacy Expert: Surveillance Cams Will Soon Be Impossible to Spot

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just zipped really close to tiny asteroid Bennu to snap an incredibly detailed image.

Roid Rage

Say "cheese!"

NASA Photographs Asteroid That Could Smash Into Earth in 22nd Century

DARPA wants contractors to develop an "air-breathing" hypersonic weapon. Now Raytheon is ready to test a missile that can travel 5x faster than sound.

Sudden Death

The missile comes from a new partnership between Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.

New Missile Lobs Nukes 5x Faster Than Sound

Amnesty International argues that Facebook took away a crucial tool for humans rights investigators without consulting them.

One Arm Tied

Facebook disabled research tools Amnesty International says were crucial.

Human Rights Group: Facebook Won't Let Us Investigate War Crimes

Twitch is suing the trolls that hijacked its platform to share extreme, sometimes illegal videos — even though it doesn't actually know who they are.

Extreme Stream

Twitch wants to hold the trolls accountable — if it can figure out who they are.

Twitch Sues Anonymous Users for Streaming Porn, Murderous Rampage

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.

Undo Button

"We live in a world where it's becoming harder to trust the digital information we consume."

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

YouTuber Simone Giertz bought a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck in her latest video.

Truckla

"I’m doing it because I really, really want this car. This is truly my dream car."

Watch This YouTuber Mod Her Tesla Model 3 Into a Pickup Truck

NASA head Jim Bridenstine announced that the SpaceX capsule explosion earlier this year has delayed the space agency's plans for crewed missions.

Unexpected Delays

But he didn't say for how long.

NASA Head: "No Doubt" SpaceX Explosion Delayed Flight Program

A pakistani politician unknowingly gave a press conference while a Facebook AR filter gave him cute cat ears during the livestream.

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