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China says it found something bizarre and unexpected on the moon
An unexpected use for face recognition: tracking chimpanzees
An AI app that turns you into a movie star has risked the privacy of millions
Amazon is apparently testing a system that lets you pay by scanning your hand
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Instagram and WhatsApp are the platforms to worry about before the 2020 election
Facebook might start hiding how many Likes your post gets
An AI system identified a potential new drug in just 46 days
One of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites almost collided with a weather satellite
Earth’s “fingerprint” could one day help us find a habitable exoplanet
Biohackers are pirating a cheap version of a million-dollar gene therapy
A group of independent biologists say they plan to copy a costly gene therapy. Are they medicine’s Robin Hood or a threat to safety?
AI thinks this flood photo is a toilet. Fixing that could improve disaster response.
A new data set aims to teach computer vision systems to recognize images from disasters.
Alexa will be your best friend when you’re older
From friendly personal assistant to companion to … spouse?
Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google
Websites delivered iOS malware to thousands of visitors in the biggest iPhone hack ever. There’s no telling who was infected—or who was behind it.
NASA has switched on the atomic clock that could help get people to Mars
Gene-edited cattle have a major screwup in their DNA
Bid for barnyard revolution is set back after regulators find celebrity “hornless” bovines contaminated by bacterial genes.
Facebook is creating an AI assistant for Minecraft
The popular video game provides the best environment for an AI to learn a wide range of tasks, the company’s researchers say.
OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI
The AI lab has also released a report to explain why it is releasing the model in increments.
American Cyber Command hamstrung Iran’s paramilitary force
Move over, Libra. Telegram’s own cryptocurrency is apparently coming soon.
Facebook is making it harder to use ads to mess with the 2020 election
SpaceX’s Starhopper rocket has pulled off its last—and highest—flight
A self-driving car pioneer faces charges of stealing secrets from Google
The Middle East is already a cyberwar hotbed. Things just got worse.
A hacking group with links to Iran is the latest threat that makes the Persian Gulf one of the world’s most active theaters of cyberwar.
Facebook is digging in for a high-stakes fight over its digital currency
5 reasons why NASA’s 2024 moon landing looks unlikely
The odds that NASA can accomplish its huge task in five years are looking longer and longer with each passing week.
KFC is testing plant-based chicken nuggets today (but just in one restaurant for now)
Are psychiatrists really ready for the AI revolution?
Machine learning can help manage a wide range of mental health disorders. But the psychiatric profession is worryingly unprepared for this change, according to a global survey.
We aren’t terrified enough about losing the Amazon
Scientists aren’t sure if there’s a tipping point, or how close we are to it – but it would be “absolutely catastrophic” if we cross it.
The US Air Force’s shadowy X-37B space plane has broken a spaceflight record
The legal crusader fighting cyber stalkers, trolls, and revenge porn
Attorney Carrie Goldberg is on a mission to eradicate the law that gave rise to the modern internet—and which enables stalking, revenge porn, and more.
Whoops! California’s carbon offsets program could extend the life of coal mines.
A new study highlighting the risks of perverse incentives offers the latest evidence that carbon offsets are a deeply flawed way of combating climate change.
The chemistry behind how you make a record-breaking giant soap bubble
The art of creating giant bubbles is more mysterious than it seems, but researchers are at last teasing apart the chemistry of thin soapy films.
YouTube has removed 210 channels that posted about the Hong Kong protests
Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time
A radar device that relies on entangled photons works at such low power that it can hide behind background noise, making it useful for biomedical and security applications.
Desperate Venezuelans are making money by training AI for self-driving cars
Growing competition to develop self-driving cars—and the high stakes of getting things right—have created new crowdworking platforms that could be a lifeline for desperate workers.
Some crypto-criminals think jumping across blockchains covers their tracks. Big mistake.
A popular cryptocurrency service that may appear to enhance anonymity actually doesn’t, according to new research.
The US has blacklisted digital currency addresses for three Chinese nationals
This inflatable space home could give future astronauts room to stretch out
Waymo is going to share its self-driving data—but it’s still not enough
The next trick for CRISPR is gene-editing pain away
A family of street performers could walk on coals. Here’s how the secret of why they felt no pain could benefit others.
A super-secure quantum internet just took another step closer to reality
Here’s how social-media firms should tackle online hate, according to physics
Policing online hate groups is like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, and it’s not working. Here are some ideas that might.
The Brazilian Amazon is on fire—here’s why that’s bad news for the planet
“Old age” is made up—and this concept is hurting everyone
Products designed for older people reinforce a bogus image of them as passive and feeble.
The anti-aging drug that’s just around the corner
We will soon learn if a much-hyped, rapamycin-like drug can boost the immune response by targeting how the body ages.
I’ll have you know
A futuristic fiction story about starting over at 100 years old
Why you shouldn’t fear the gray tsunami
Many worry that aging populations will doom the world economy and make life miserable for everyone. Here’s why that’s wrong.
Why are products for older people so ugly?
As the market for products aimed at older users explodes, some entrepreneurs are turning to a radical idea: actually get the customers involved.
Health-care costs are soaring, but don’t blame old people
The per-person allocation for those over 65 is actually shrinking
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