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Veteran Tech Journalist Dumps Facebook, Dissing Service, Regulation
Social media was buzzing Monday over boycotts and protests of Facebook and Instagram, including that of veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, according to USA Today.
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Report: Bionic Eye to Aid the Blind Ready for Human Trials
Biomedical engineering is closing in on a device that can help the blind see, according to the U.K.'s Daily Star.
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Report: Russia's High-Tech Robot Is Just a Man in a Suit
State television in Russia showed a high-tech robot, but it turned out to be nothing more than a man in a costume, according to The Guardian.
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NASA Offers Curry Tour Amid Moon-Landing Skepticism
NASA has offered Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry a tour of one of its lunar labs to prove to him a moon landing had indeed happened, CNN reported Tuesday.
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ACLU Balks at Secret Service Facial Recognition Test
The ACLU revealed Tuesday the Secret Service is testing a facial recognition program near the White House.
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NYPD Reveals Plans for Drone Fleet
The NYPD will operate a fleet of more than a dozen drones to help fight crime in the Big Apple, it announced Tuesday.
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Apple's Tim Cook: Hate Speech Has 'No Place' on Tech Platforms
Hate speech does not belong on social media and other tech platforms, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday.
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Revered Ancient Relic Found to Be 1920's Spark Plug
A stoney mass that became revered as proof of the existence of an ancient advanced civilization -but proved to be nothing more than a 1920s-era Champion spark plug - is now on display in Seattle in an exhibit titled "What Is Reality."Since the discovery 57 years ago of the...
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Next US Moon Landing Will be by Private Companies, Not NASA
America's next moon landing will be made by private companies - not NASA.NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Thursday that nine U.S. companies will compete to deliver experiments to the lunar surface.
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Report: Trump Plans to Push Forward With Space Force
Committing to the biggest restructuring of the U.S. military in seven decades, President Donald Trump plans to go ahead with asking Congress to establish a Space Force as an independent branch of the military, according to Politico.
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Musk Calls Dibs on Mars Rocket Ride, Residency
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is not only ready to ride along on one of his rockets to Mars, he told "Axios on HBO" he would like to move there, even amid likely death.
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Adam and Eve? One Couple Spawned Humanity, Study Claims
Despite a scientist fighting "hard" against the claim, humanity spawned from a single pair which lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, according to a new study, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported."This conclusion is very surprising,'" University of Basel, Switzerland, research...
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Study: Meteor Hit Plausible Site of Bible's Sodom
Archeologists claim the plausible site of the biblical city of Sodom, which, according to the Christian Bible, was destroyed by God because its residents lived a life of sin, was destroyed by a powerful asteroid 3,700 years ago.
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Landmark Change to Kilogram Approved
The international system of measurements has been overhauled with new definitions for the kilogram and other key units.At a meeting in Versailles, France, countries have voted to approve the wide-ranging changes that underpin vital human activities...
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UN Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Healing
Earth's protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said.The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientists raised the alarm and ozone-depleting chemicals were phased out...
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AI Crisis: Pentagon Grappling With Future of Weapons That 'Make Their Own Decisions'
The Department of Defense wants to make sure an AI missile "will do what it's asked to do" and not make its own decision, according to a Defense One report.
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Kepler Telescope Dead After Finding Thousands of Worlds
NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary.Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday.Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year-old Kepler had been running low on fuel for...
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Study: 1 in 4 College Students Reported Significant Post Election-Related Stress
After the 2016 presidential election, one in four college students experienced "clinically significant event-related distress," according to a study published in the Journal of American College Health.
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Bezos Touts Plans to Help Populate Solar System
Mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos is predicting a population explosion of 1 trillion humans in the solar system one day - and says his rocket company, Blue Origin, will help pave the way.In remarks at the 25th anniversary summit of tech site Wired in San Francisco, the Amazon...
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AI Can Analyze Facebook Posts, Detect Depression Earlier
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Stony Brook University have created an algorithm that can help diagnose depression at least three months earlier than health services by analyzing Facebook posts....
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Report: New Study Fuels Fear of 'Bugpocalypse'
Insects are disappearing from the national forest in Puerto Rico, according to a new report published Monday - the latest indication of an alarming "bugpocalypse" around the world, The Washington Post reported.
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Report: Administration Moves to Boost Ethanol Use
The Trump administration is plowing ahead with plans to promote the use of ethanol - a move likely to rally Midwest Republicans, but rile independent oil refiners and a group of bipartisan lawmakers,...
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Drunk Birds Cause Trouble in Minnesota Town
A police department in Minnesota warned the town's residents this week about young, drunk birds flying into windows and acting "tipsy."
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Man Who Invented Web Disgusted, Creating New Version
The man who created the world wide web - and gave it away for free - Tim Berners-Lee, is now starting a project to take back personal data from big tech and protect it for the individual, as the New York Post reported.
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Bye Bye Bugs? Scientists Fear Non-pest Insects Are Declining
A staple of summer - swarms of bugs - seems to be a thing of the past. And that's got scientists worried.