Emerging Tech

Apple Maps expands its Street View-style imagery to 3 more cities

By Trevor Mogg
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Enjoy NASA’s recreation of Apollo 13’s moon mission in crisp 4K

The stunning moonscape imagery from NASA also includes a cameo by Earth.
By Trevor Mogg

Humanity’s media habits shifted radically in the 2010s. What do the 2020s hold?

By Luke Dormehl
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Katherine Johnson, ‘Hidden Figures’ pioneer of early spaceflight, dies at 101

By Georgina Torbet
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NASA wants your help to design an avoidance sensor for a Venus rover

By Georgina Torbet
An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover.

Daredevil ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes dies in launch of latest homemade rocket

By Trevor Mogg
homemade rocket daredevil mike hughes dies in launch effort

A year on this Jupiter-like planet lasts 18 hours and it’s about to be destroyed

By Georgina Torbet
Artist’s impression of a hot Jupiter orbiting close to a star

New method for detecting exoplanet atmospheres could help find habitable planets

By Georgina Torbet
Artist impression of a red-dwarf star’s magnetic interaction with its exoplanet.

Researchers use artificial intelligence to develop powerful new antibiotic

By Georgina Torbet
MIT researchers used a machine-learning algorithm to identify a drug called halicin that kills many strains of bacteria. Halicin (top row) prevented the development of antibiotic resistance in E. coli, while ciprofloxacin (bottom row) did not.

Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Infinitely reusable notepads and ingenious AC

By Drew Prindle
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking a two-week vacation

By Georgina Torbet
This artist's concept shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter over the red planet.
Tech for Change

Using drones to detect coronavirus? It’s not as crazy as it sounds

By Luke Dormehl
drone flies above masked man

Could 23andMe’s new pharmaceutical friends finally find a fix for psoriasis?

By Will Nicol
23andMe

Untitled Goose Game studio to donate 1% of income, forever. Others should follow.

By Lisa Marie Segarra
Untitled Goose Game

Filter by positivity: This new A.I. could detoxify online comment threads

By Luke Dormehl
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Join the fight against Australia’s bushfires with these gaming offers

By Gabe Gurwin
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Exclusive: Google reveals 2,000-person diversity and inclusion product team

By Jeremy Kaplan
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More Emerging Tech

Brave InSight Lander doing its best to free stuck heat probe from Martian soil

By Georgina Torbet
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Here are all the science projects that SpaceX will deliver to the ISS

By Georgina Torbet
Airbus workers unpack the Bartolomeo platform at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for its launch to the International Space Station.

New drilling tech could tap Earth’s geothermal energy by melting through rocks

By Luke Dormehl
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Mars’ moons: Japan’s space agency preps pioneering mission

By Trevor Mogg
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Terrifying handheld blaster can fire playing cards at 120 miles per hour

By Luke Dormehl
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Boeing 737 Max: Debris found in some of the jets’ fuel tanks

By Trevor Mogg
Boeing 737 Max 8

UCLA won’t use facial recognition on its campus after it receives backlash

By Allison Matyus
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A.I. translation tool sheds light on the secret language of mice

By Luke Dormehl
ai sheds light on mouse communication

The latest weapon in the fight against Alzheimer’s? Flickering lights

By Luke Dormehl
Alzheimers research glasses

New green device generates electricity by capturing moisture from the air

By Luke Dormehl
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This smartphone sensor can detect live skin to halt facial login spoofing

By John Velasco
trinamix live skin demo

Boeing-backed passenger drone contest offers weird and wonderful designs

By Trevor Mogg
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Alphabet gives up on ambitious energy-generating kite project

By Trevor Mogg
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U.S. military facial recognition could identify people from 1 km away

By Luke Dormehl
clearview ai data scraping legal facial recognition composite

Neural implant turns regular grasshoppers into cyborg bomb-sniffers

By Luke Dormehl
Locust cyborg 1

We used an A.I. design tool to come up with a new logo. Here’s what happened

By Will Nicol
Digital Trends AI logo

Elon Musk warns that all A.I. must be regulated, even at Tesla

By Allison Matyus
Elon Musk

SpaceX will offer space tourism flights sooner than you think

By Allison Matyus
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Forget the Internet of Things. Here’s what IoT really stands for

By Jeremy Kaplan
Intelligence of Things Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2017

Exclusive: Ubco FRX1 electric dirt bike pre-orders go live at $8,999

By Mitchell Nicholson
Ubco FRX1

Solar Orbiter sends back first measurements from space just days after launch

By Georgina Torbet
Artist's impression of Solar Orbiter following launch, with solar arrays and antennas deployed.

SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites, but things didn’t go as planned

By Georgina Torbet
SpaceX Starlink
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