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Seakeeper’s Super Spinning System Keeps Ships Stable at Sea
Seakeeper's gyroscopic system counteracts a boat's natural motion to keep you and your seasick friends from rocking with the waves.
The 6-Foot Chinese Giant Salamander Is in Serious Trouble
Scientists figured out one species is actually at least five. Which means conservationists have been going about trying to save the creature all wrong.
Star Wars News: Life After 'Solo' May or May Not Include a Lando Movie
Will Donald Glover be getting his own 'Star Wars Story'? It's not impossible!
How Self-Driving Cars Will Reshape Cities
Urban planners can ditch those outdated layouts and transform the city into a joyful mess of throughways and byways optimized not for cars but for people.
The Line Between Big Tech and Defense Work
Employees at Google are protesting a Pentagon contract. But there are few signs of unrest over CIA deals at Amazon and Microsoft.
'Westworld' Recap, Season 2 Episode 5: More Dead Than Alive
'Westworld' is artful, intelligent, and sleek. Warm and relatable? Not so much.
John Kelly's Comments on Immigration Top This Week's Internet News
The White House chief of staff's comments about immigration had a lot of people online talking last week.
The US Needs an Artificial Intelligence Strategy—Just Like France, China, and the EU
Opinion: Rep. John K. Delaney argues that if the United States wants a prosperous economy, it needs a national plan for artificial intelligence.
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
Astronomers argue that there’s an undiscovered giant planet far beyond the orbit of Neptune. A newly discovered rocky body has added evidence to the circumstantial case for it.
You Can Send Invisible Messages With Subtle Font Tweaks
Researchers have developed a new technique called FontCode that hides secrets in plain sight.
Is It Weird for Conservatives to Like 'Star Trek'?
On the latest 'Geek's Guide to the Galaxy' podcast, writer Ana Marie Cox discusses Ted Cruz's love of one of the most openly liberal TV shows.
A Mugshots.com Indictment, Lost Grenades, and More Security News This Week
Critical Cisco bugs, lost grenades, and more of the week's top security news.
Best Weekend Tech Deals: Apple Watch, Neck Massagers, Monitors
Computer monitors, TVs, laptops, desktops, and even the Apple Watch are all on sale this weekend.
Space Photos of the Week: Mars Gets Pac-Man Fever
NASA just released an image of a crater-dune combination it is calling Bachan Pac-Man.
A Location-Sharing Disaster Shows How Exposed You Really Are
The failures of Securus and LocationSmart to secure location data are the failures of an entire industry.
Google, Alibaba Spar Over Timeline for 'Quantum Supremacy'
Google says it expects to reach an important milestone for quantum computing this year. Not so fast, says Alibaba.
Yes, 'Call of Duty''s Single-Player Campaign Will Be Missed
'Black Ops 4' may not mark the permanent death of single-player options in the entire franchise, but it's sad news nonetheless
Gadget Lab Podcast: How to Make Bike Commuting Less Daunting
“Bikes” Calore makes a case for why everyone should bike more–and tells you the gear you need to do it right.
23andMe Goes Global In Its Data-Mining Efforts
The consumer genetics company is opening its data set to some researchers—and recruiting others to make that data set more robust in the first place.
How to Not Watch the Royal Wedding
You have been invited to virtually attend Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's marriage this weekend. But frankly, you don't give a damn.
Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' Ahead of WWDC
A group identifying itself as The Developers Union worries its members cannot earn a living by writing software built on Apple’s existing values.
Uber's Flying Cars, Tesla's Autopilot Fight, and More Cars News This Week
Plus: the sticky icky problem of trucking marijuana around California, Acura's new infotainment system, and how just one autonomous car can help kill traffic.
The Swedish Designer Creating Edible Robots
Erika Marthins fuses food with tech to create a futuristic noshing experience.
New Kitchen Knives from Shun and Kikuichi Cutlery
Our kitchen gear expert gives you some points to consider when adding a new blade to your quiver.
Congress' Latest Move to Extend Copyright Protection Is Misguided
Opinion: Law professor and copyright expert Lawrence Lessig argues that Congress is once again selling the public domain to the special interests.
Net Neutrality Is Just a Gateway to the Real Issue: Internet Freedom
The Senate vote wasn't about net neutrality. It was about making world class internet, in all its forms, a powerful political issue—with rippling effects come 2020.
Kik Founder Plots a Rebel Alliance Against Facebook's 'Death Star'
Ted Livingston is tired of Facebook copying Kik's features. To protect his cryptocurrency, he wants other apps to adopt it.
The Shape-Shifting Robot That Evolves by Falling Down
Evolutionary robotics is a potentially powerful way to get machines to master novel terrain on their own, no hand-holding required.
Elon Musk Presents His Tunnel Vision to the People of LA
The Boring Company CEO presented his idea for slaying traffic to a packed and adoring audience in Los Angeles, sharing specs and engineering details.
How Volcanologists Predicted Kilauea’s Explosive Eruption
Scientists are now warning that the next phase of eruptions could send very large boulders as far as a mile from the crater.
The Physics of a Tesla Model X Towing a Boeing 787
This Dreamliner weighs 130,000 kg—but actually, even a human could pull a full-sized aircraft.
NASA’s Jim Bridenstine Agrees Humans Are Responsible for Climate Change
“We are putting [carbon dioxide] into the atmosphere in volumes we haven’t seen before," said NASA's new administrator. "We are responsible for it.”
'Deadpool 2' Is What All Sequels Should Be: Better Than Its Predecessor
The follow-up to the 2016 surprise hit packs even more punch (and punchlines) than the first.
Gruesome Jihadi Content Still Flourishes on Facebook and Google+
Despite improvements to algorithmic filtering, Facebook and Google+ still host scores of ISIS and related content and accounts that sometimes stay up for months.
Mesmerizing Photos of Finland's Icebound Archipelago
These drones-eye aerial shots capture a Scandinavian summer destination in off-season transition.
More Artists Are Writing Songs in the Key of AI
Collaborating with the likes of Sony’s Flow Machine and IBM’s Watson, music producers, K-pop stars, and YouTubers are enlisting AI to crank out hits.
5 Comics to Read Before You See 'Deadpool 2'
Want to know what's up with Josh Brolin's character Cable? Here's your primer.
Spermbots Offer a Promising New Way to Target Cancer
After discovering that sperm could be coaxed into carrying chemotherapy drugs, researchers shifted their focus from inducing life to slaying reproductive cancer.
Fun Ideas That Keep Kids Learning Even After School's Out
Boredom is just the start of an adventure.
The Physics—and Physicality—of Extreme Juggling
The world's best numbers juggler can throw and catch 14 balls. Once. Has he reached juggling's limit?
Sam Harris and the Myth of Perfectly Rational Thought
Sam Harris, the famous proponent of New Atheism is on a crusade against tribalism but seems oblivious to his own version of it.
4 Key Takeaways From Mueller’s First Year—and What’s Next
One year in, Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump and Russia appears poised to connect all the pieces of the puzzle.
Is Tesla's Autopilot Safe? Finding Out Demands Better Data
Elon Musk has made bold claims about his sort of self-driving feature’s saving lives, but the truth is far trickier, and harder to reach.
What Happened to Internet.org, Facebook's Grand Plan to Wire the World?
Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold vision of global internet. It didn’t go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition.
Yanny vs. Laurel Means We'll All Die Alone
When everyone’s brain makes a little world out of sensory input, and everyone’s world is just a little bit different, can you really *know* anyone?
Inside the Takedown of Scan4You, a Notorious Malware Clearinghouse
How security researchers caught the creators of counter antivirus services Scan4You.
Nissan's Following Tesla Into Solar Panels and Home Batteries
The maker of the Leaf is now offering UK homeowners rooftop solar panels and big batteries for a clean ride from generation to acceleration.
Tech Firms Move to Put Ethical Guard Rails Around AI
Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others are creating internal groups and reviewing uses of artificial intelligence.
Senate Votes to Save Net Neutrality, but Hurdles Remain
Three Republicans joined Democrats to pass a resolution that would restore rules against blocking or throttling content. But the measure faces a tougher challenge in the House.
Senators Grill Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Christopher Wylie
Christopher Wylie testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that Cambridge Analytica specialized in "disinformation, spreading rumors, *kompromat*, and propaganda."
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