Are internet rumours of a comet hurtling towards Earth true? Rumours across social media platforms that a huge comet is on a collision course with Earth have been circulating, with some users describing it as a major threat to humanity. Others are debating how the comet - known as 3I/ATLAS and detected by NASA's ATLAS telescope on July 1 - might be diverted from the Earth. Some have even gone so far as to highlight "news" of military movements and an international coordination to counter the comet before impact, prompting further alarm. So is there any truth to these rumours and what do we know for sure?

Future robots could kill humans in a'murderous' rage if humans don't take steps to stop them, a prominent futurist has claimed. Dr Michio Kaku believes we can put a stop to the killer robots by simply embedding chips in their brains to control their thoughts. Robots could be smart enough to'become dangerous' before the end of this century, Kaku warned during a question and answer session on Reddit. 'I think we should chip their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts,' he explained. The humanoid robot'Alter' (pictured) has sensors that mimic the neural network of the human brain.

Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science. He is professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center.

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Ray Kurzweil Predicts an exact year 2029 by which singularity will occur. In 1958 Stanislaw Ulam wrote about a conversation with John von Neumann who said that: "the ever accelerating progress of technology … gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue." Neumann's alleged definition of the singularity was that it is the moment beyond which "technological progress will become incomprehensibly rapid and complicated." The Singularity is Near https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sin... There's More to Singularity Studies Than Kurzweil http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/print/... What's the technological singularity?

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In the daily edtech trenches, the forest is easily lost for the trees. Technological minutiae in the classroom carry such immense consequences that it can be hard to think beyond tomorrow's software update, nevermind next year's LMS rollout. In his opening keynote at the ISTE 2016 conference, noted physicist Dr. Michio Kaku showed educators the forest that he and others believe will encircle the classroom of the future. And oh, what a forest it might be. According to Dr. Kaku, talking wallpaper, data-reading toilets and other technologies that seem like miracles today are a mere fifty years away.