Still Running In Frank Herbert's epic 1965 sci-fi novel "Dune," those adventurous enough to brave the desert landscapes of the fictional planet Arrakis wear a full body suit called a "stillsuit" that can preserve all of the body's moisture with the help of a filter that recycles both sweat and urine. A tube inserted into the wearer's nostrils, as...

Dog Gun It The Chinese military recently showed off numerous robot dogs outfitted with machine guns on their backs during the country's biggest-ever drill alongside Cambodian troops, as Agence France-Presse reports. The terrifying gun-toting robodogs were part of a massive 15-day military exercise called "Golden Dragon" in a remote training center...

Slow Burn Can't kick the smartphone habit? Researchers have devised a clever way to shave your embarrassingly high screen times that involves some downright evil sleight-of-hand. Their app, InteractOut, subtly screws with swiping and tapping inputs on your phone screen, which progressively gets more and more frustrating until you finally decide to...

The Fame Monster After spending years relentlessly chasing publicity across the media, huge speaking events and a world tour of multiple continents, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is humblebragging that all his newfound fame is taking a toll. "The inability to just be mostly anonymous in public is very, very strange," he said on the Logan Bartlett Show this...

Things haven't gone entirely according to plan with Neuralink's first human patient: as the company conceded after questions from the Wall Street Journal, wires inside the patient's brain appear to have come loose, degrading the quality of implant's signal. This wasn't entirely unforeseen. Doctors had previously warned about danger to Neuralink's test...

Media Blitz Days after gunmen stormed a Moscow concert venue in late March and killed more than 140 people, a slick propaganda video about the attack — purportedly from a group allied with the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS or ISIS) — started circulating online. "The Islamic State delivered a strong blow to Russia with a bloody attack, the...