According to Paul Lamb in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin:

Trend watchers suggest the latest fad is the emergence of “micro-churches.” With over 10,000 identified religions worldwide, and two or three new ones being introduced every day, the religious future is looking more and more like a community fruit basket and less like an orchard growing red-only apples. Technology will play a key role in the localization and miniaturization of religion, because it puts organizing and communications tools directly into the hands of people themselves. Why go to the church on the corner, which may not speak to you directly, when you can organize your own church of like-minded individuals in your neighborhood? These micro-communities will likely gain guidance from online mini-gatherings from around the globe.
This is not to say that the mainstream churches will disappear any time soon, but if they view social media and technology change as purely a communications challenge, they risk being left standing on the docks watching the future sail away.

NASA and General Motors have teamed up to build this new humanoid robot. Robonaut 2 will be stronger, faster, and more dexterous than the first Robonaut—allowing it to work side by side with humans on Earth and in space (and in some cases, do risky things for them).

If you’re on Facebook, join the fan group that’s trying to gather together 1 million people who accept evolution before June —”regardless of religious belief or lack thereof.”
The group was started in response to a creationist group that is trying to find a million people who don’t believe in evolution.

In what reads like science fiction, a team of French scientists has developed a transistor that can mimic the main functions of a synapse. The transistor, based on a chemical compound called pentacene and gold nanoparticles, and known as NOMFET (Nanoparticle Organic Memory Field-Effect Transistor), successfully mimics the way in which messages are transmitted from one neuron to another across a synapse.
A transistor, the basic building block of an electronic circuit, can be used as a simple switch; it can transmit, or not transmit, a signal. Researchers say the gold nanoparticles, which are fixed in the channel of the transistor and coated with pentacene, have a “memory effect” that allows them to mimic the way a synapse works during the transmission of action potentials between two neurons–a basic function of the nervous system.
Because of this property, the electronic component is able to evolve as a function of the system in which it is placed. The researchers believe that neuro-inspired computers produced using this technology will be capable of functions comparable to those of the human brain.