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New Research Adds Another Branch to the Evolutionary Tree of Life While we’ve known about a type of microbe called hemimastigotes since the 1800s, it turns out we were totally wrong about where they fit on the Tree of Life — because they didn’t fit on any of the existing branches. HEADLINES FROM TODAY  1.    Watch the Boring Company's Digging Machine Finish Its First Tunnel  2.    Jeff Bezos: "One Day, Amazon Will Fail"  3.    How Crypto Mining is Getting People Out of ICE Custody OF INTEREST BREAKTHROUGH / BY VICTOR TANGERMANN Watch the Boring Company's Digging Machine Finish Its First Tunnel Elon Musk’s oddball underground tunneling venture, the Boring Company, just completed a major milestone. Musk posted a video on Twitter showing the gigantic tunneling machine breaking through the final wall connecting it to O’Leary Station, the Boring Company’s first outpost that connects the underground tunnel to the surface near its headquarters in Hawthorne, Los Angeles. NEWS IN QUOTES “This whole idea of terraforming Mars, as respectful as I can be,are you guys high?”   - Bill Nye   / Bill Nye on Terraforming Mars: “Are You Guys High?” OUR AFFILIATE BRANDS WE LOVE This Game Uses Artificial Intelligence to Recruit New Players Since the days of ELIZA, the rudimentary computer “therapist” who represented one of the earliest versions of interactive AI, the dream of artificial intelligence has captivated futurists, technologists, and science fiction writers. But when the artificially intelligent machines of the future come into their own, how will the world change? CLICK TO LEARN MORE TODAY'S SPONSORED CARTOON We’ve relaunched our Youtube channel Subscribe to our page as we explore the future of food, 3D printing, CRISPR, and more.  You won't want to miss it.  _______________  SUBSCRIBE NOW

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