Elon Musk, inventor, futurist and business magnate has unveiled ambitious plans Friday to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth’s major cities in under half-an-hour. The founder of SpaceX said a planned interplanetary transport system, codenamed BFR (Big F**king Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a range of tasks that would then pay for future Mars missions.

Nineteen years ago, Google began its ambitious task of organizing the Internet. This Wednesday, the search engine celebrates with a new interactive Doodle that directs users to some of the company's hidden gems developed over the years; games, virtual tours, rabbit-holes of obscure histories and more.

According to the Medical Xpress, researchers at South Africa's Wits School of Electrical and Information Engineering have developed a way to link a human brain to the internet.

South Korean firm, LG has introduced its new K7i smartphone in India embedded with technology that the company says will keep mosquitoes away. It's a fairly standard budget phone with a 5-inch HD display, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and an unspecified quad-core processor. It runs on Android Marshmallow.

American Reality TV star and business woman, Kim Kardashian opens up about the devastating moment doctors told she might have miscarried her daughter, North, during her first pregnancy. The 36-year-old mother of two opened up in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ 10th anniversary special about the terrible moment doctors informed her early on in her first pregnancy that she had sadly miscarried.

Gas

An engineer has stumbled upon a revolutionary invention that could transform how heavy oil is transported by encasing it within environmentally-friendly 'bitumen balls' that wouldn't require pipelines.