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MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough
Developments

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough

"It's the same principle as feeding a machine a lot of X-rays so it learns to detect cancer."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at Facebook are investigating if they can use augmented reality to allow people with hearing loss to hear another person in loud environments.
Prosthetics and Devices

Facebook Wants to Give You Superhuman Hearing Using AR Glasses

Imagine tech that could let you isolate just one conversation in a crowded party.

By Victor Tangermann

A new Amazon patent describes how trolls and toxic gamers could be sequestered into their own matches full of other trolls.
Science & Energy

Amazon Patent Makes the Most Horrible Gamers Play With Each Other

Finally, some peace and quiet.

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA-led research calculated that on average, about one in two Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have exoplanets in their habitable zones.
Science & Energy

NASA: Half the Sun-like Stars in our Galaxy Have Potentially-Habitable Planets

"We're one step closer on the long road to finding out if we’re alone in the cosmos."

By Dan Robitzski

According to a recent tweet by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the company will be unveiling a Cybertruck design with minor improvements "maybe in a month or so."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Promises Redesigned Cybertruck in a “Month or So”

Let's hope it still looks as brutal as the original design.

By Victor Tangermann

Failing to reach the Paris agreement's goals and heating Earth by two degrees Celsius could trigger the release of 230 billion tons of carbon from the soil.
Climate Change

Our Soil is Poised To Release Billions of Tons of Carbon

Well, this isn't good.

By Dan Robitzski

New analysis of ancient Martian meteorites adds 400 million years to our historical knowledge of water on the surface of Mars.
Science & Energy

Martian Meteorites Show Red Planet Had Water Billions of Years Ago

It would be the oldest evidence of Martian water we have.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Japanese architects have designed a breathtaking concept for a futuristic, four-story spaceport, meant to float just off the shore in Tokyo Bay.
Space

This Japanese Spaceport Concept is Absolutely Gorgeous

Remember when we could still dream about the distant future?

By Victor Tangermann

The Starlink "Better Than Nothing Beta" is giving some rural participants better internet connectivity than the vast majority of the U.S.
Space

Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US

Users in rural Montana hit 160 Mbps.

By Dan Robitzski

A "Fire Fauci" chant broke out at a recent Trump rally. "Don’t tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election," the president replied.
Developments

Trump Tells Crowd He’ll Fire Fauci If He Wins the Election

"Don’t tell anybody, but..."

By Victor Tangermann

The hologram strat up PORTL Hologram made a doorway-sized device that can transmit holograms as new, immersive form of video calls.
Virtual Reality

This “Portal” Lets You Beam a Hologram of Yourself Into Video Calls

Get ready to beam a hologram version of yourself into a friend's home — or vice versa!

By Dan Robitzski

Upon digging through Starlink's terms of service, eagle-eyed beta testers discovered they were signing up for a lot more than they might have thought.
Mars

Starlink Terms of Service Demands That Users “Recognize Mars as a Free Planet”

"Accordingly, Disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith, at the time of Martian settlement."

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-powered camera decided to follow the bald head of a linesman at a Scottish soccer game instead of the ball.
Artificial Intelligence

Robot Camera Mistakes Soccer Ref’s Bald Head For Ball

The hilarious shortcomings of artificial intelligence.

By Victor Tangermann

A british company is manufacturing diamonds out of atmospheric CO2 and rainwater in an attempt to reverse environmental damage.
Science & Energy

This Guy Is Creating Actual Diamonds From Reclaimed CO2

"We don't need to mine the earth to have diamonds, we can mine the sky."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Disney researchers have built a terrifying animatronic robot bust to literally replicate the "gaze" of a human in order to appear more lifelike.
Robotics

Disney Builds Horrifying Skinless Robot With Terrifyingly Human Eyes

The teeth! Why!

By Victor Tangermann

A self-driving race car had a terrible start during the first-ever live broadcast of Roborace, an autonomous race car competition.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Racecar Hits Accelerator, Immediately Crashes Into Wall

It didn't even get to the starting line.

By Victor Tangermann

According to researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, our planet will be hit with more prolonged "mega-droughts" thanks to cliamte change.
Climate Change

Scientists: Earth Should Brace Itself For Multi-Decade “Mega-Droughts”

Thanks, climate change.

By Victor Tangermann

For her birthday, Kanye West bought Kim Kardashian a hologram of her dead dad that says he's proud of her and calls Kanye a genius.
Virtual Reality

Kanye Bought Kim Kardashian a Hologram of her Dead Dad That Says He’s Proud of Her

Probably healthy, right?

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter just spotted something unusual on the surface of the Red Planet: a "triplet" crater.
Mars

On Mars, a Crater on Top of a Crater on Top of a Crater

Yo dawg, I heard you like craters.

By Victor Tangermann

A new brain-computer interface doesn't actually touch the brain or require open-skull surgery. Rather, it snakes through the jugular vein and listens in.
Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain-Computer Interface Doesn’t Even Need to Touch the Brain

So what if it needs a little hole in the jugular?

By Dan Robitzski