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LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 30: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, unveils suit of batteries for homes, businesses, and utilities at Tesla Design Studio April 30, 2015 in Hawthorne, California. Musk unveiled the home battery named Powerwall with a selling price of $3500 for 10kWh and $3000 for 7kWh and very large utility pack called Powerpack. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Elon Musk won’t be first man on Mars because risk of death is too high, but he encourages you to go

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Sex in space is so much harder than you could have ever imagined

August 01, 2016

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UFOs, rogue space stations, nuclear weapons. Things are getting crazy in space.

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The Juno space probe now orbiting Jupiter is 'manned' by a Lego crew

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The problem with Apple's new emoji software, and how AI could solve it

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Lab Rats

One of the rings of Saturn is broken

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Lab Rats

Giant nightmare planet could be host to equally giant nightmare life

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Better By Design

Virtual reality will open the door to incredibly intimate surveillance

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The New New Economy

Future Forecast: Organic with a chance of jetpacks

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Insecurity State

That private mission to the Moon is way more complicated than it seems

LONDON - AUGUST 02: A Christies employee holds up a tricorder infront of a replica Star Trek uniform on August 2, 2006 in London. Christie's New York are marking the 40th anniversary of the science fiction series with a sale of Star Trek studio items. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)

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Is Google's biotech start-up Verily the next Theranos?

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Press Play

This artist is trying to destroy mugshot websites by cloning them

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Planet Earth

Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have very different visions for the future of space

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Career advice for my future, egg-harvested child

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Geo-targeted harassment is the new frontier of the anti-abortion movement

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Planet Earth

Why Silicon Valley hates Gawker

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Warning: This election contains language some people may find offensive

BONN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 09: A quadcopter drone arrives with a small delivery at Deutsche Post headquarters on December 9, 2013 in Bonn, Germany. Deutsche Post is testing deliveries of medicine from a pharmacy in Bonn in an examination into the viability of using drones for deliveries of small packages over short distances. U.S. online retailer Amazon has also started its intention to explore the possibilities of using drones for deliveries. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Insecurity State

The service that promised to keep drones away from your home silently shut down

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The New New Economy

Airbnb has made it nearly impossible to find a place to live in this city

BONN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 09: A quadcopter drone arrives with a small delivery at Deutsche Post headquarters on December 9, 2013 in Bonn, Germany. Deutsche Post is testing deliveries of medicine from a pharmacy in Bonn in an examination into the viability of using drones for deliveries of small packages over short distances. U.S. online retailer Amazon has also started its intention to explore the possibilities of using drones for deliveries. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Insecurity State

The new government guidelines to protect you from drones won't protect you from drones

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Lab Rats

This person's job is to protect us from Armageddon

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Press Play

Your favorite sites to watch pirated shows could disappear

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee about worldwide threats to the United States during a hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 21, 2015 in Washington, DC. Comey, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and National Counterterrorism Center Director Nicholas Rasmussen testified about ISIS recruitment of young women, its use of social media and their limited resources due to budget sequestration. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Blaming viral videos for a rise in violent crime is ridiculous

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Insecurity State

FBI bugged public spaces for years hoping to overhear a few illegal things

Planet Earth

The race to make plutonium-238, the nuclear power source we need to keep exploring space

BONN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 09: A quadcopter drone arrives with a small delivery at Deutsche Post headquarters on December 9, 2013 in Bonn, Germany. Deutsche Post is testing deliveries of medicine from a pharmacy in Bonn in an examination into the viability of using drones for deliveries of small packages over short distances. U.S. online retailer Amazon has also started its intention to explore the possibilities of using drones for deliveries. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Insecurity State

This teen wants to live alone in the wilderness with a drone that delivers Soylent

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - FEBUARY 12: This undated microscopic photo shows cloned human embryos used to generate stem cells during an experiment in Seoul. South Korean researchers said they had cloned a human embryo February 12, 2004 and extracted embryonic stem cells from it. (Photo by Seoul National University/Getty Images)

Tech Mysteries

Scientists just doubled the lifespan of human embryos raised in petri dishes. Prepare for an epic ethics battle.

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This black 17 year old is facing child pornography charges for sexting his 16-year-old white girlfriend

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This face recognition company is causing havoc in Russia—and could come to the U.S. soon

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Insecurity State

Dave Chappelle has an ingenious way to keep his audience from using their smartphones

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Press Play

Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women

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Insecurity State

9 things I learned about TV by making a TV show

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Virtual reality has a huge sexual harassment problem

Insecurity State

The Senator who tried to warn us about the Snowden leaks is warning us again

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Lab Rats

Does social media make gangs more violent?

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Tech Mysteries

How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell

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Insecurity State

TSA says its Randomizer app only cost $47,400

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Lab Rats

This woman's viral YouTube videos are giving millions of people 'brain orgasms'

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Insecurity State

The 63 other smartphones the government asked Apple and Google to help unlock

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Planet Earth

Inside the garage labs of DIY gene hackers, whose hobby may terrify you

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