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Should we tax robots? A debate.
The UK plans to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to net zero by 2050
Facebook has promised to leave up a deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg
A CRISPR startup is testing pig organs on monkeys to see if they’re safe for us
Gene-editing company eGenesis is now carrying out experiments to help solve a critical shortage of human organs available for transplant.
Cyborg seals and floating robots have solved an Antarctic ice mystery
A Russian scientist has threatened to make more CRISPR babies
Hackers have stolen photos of travelers taken by the US border agency
Anyone can program this cheap robot arm in just 15 minutes
Automata hopes its inexpensive devices can bring automation to companies that usually wouldn’t be able to afford high-end robotics.
The black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy is way smaller than we thought
Russia will block VPN providers who don’t comply with a blacklist request
A big US maker of paperless voting systems now says paper is essential
Facebook’s AI system can speak with Bill Gates’s voice
The company’s AI researchers have developed a speech synthesizer capable of copying anybody’s voice with uncanny accuracy.
NASA is opening the ISS up to private astronauts and commercial business
Forget drones, Amazon’s real robot innovation is in the warehouse
How to regulate Big Tech without breaking it up
The history of trustbusting shows there are many possible ways to combat the monopoly power of companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
AI mavericks want to build a better brain for industrial robots
You can train an AI to fake UN speeches in just 13 hours
YouTube is deleting videos on Nazi history as part of its hate speech crackdown
Amazon wants to use AI to recommend you clothing — again
Why is the moon flashing? A new telescope might find out.
These colorful stickers are helping blind people find their way around
If you have a cell-phone camera, the NaviLens system can give you vital information about where you are.
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint.
Making Big Tech companies share data could do more good than breaking them up
Internet governance expert Viktor Mayer-Schönberger says a breakup wouldn’t fix the real problem: companies like Google have too much data, and nobody else stands a chance.
How a town destroyed by fire is trying to make itself fireproof
Can a town like Paradise, California, ever be truly safe in the era of climate change?
US elections are still far too vulnerable to attack—at every level
With the 2020 presidential race fast approaching, America hasn’t learned the lessons of the last one.
Amazon claims its new Prime Air drone will be delivering packages “within months”
Regulating or breaking up Big Tech: an antitrust explainer
US regulators will investigate whether companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google have too much power. Here’s an introduction to the issues.
Space weather affects your daily life. It’s time to start paying attention.
Meet the space-weather forecaster leading the charge to help us understand solar flares and geomagnetic storms before it’s too late.
Ikea is going to sell robotic furniture to maximize space for city dwellers
The Democrats’ climate-change plans, compared
Why an issue that hardly came up in the last US election has become the price of admission in the 2020 presidential primary.
Meet the robot submarine that acts as a lionfish predator
YouTube’s algorithm makes it easy for pedophiles to find more videos of children
Breaking up Big Tech will be really hard to do—here’s why
Regulators in the US have taken a big step toward bringing antitrust suits against American tech giants, but they face a long road ahead.
Cybersecurity flaws in chips are still taking too long to fix
Delays in plugging security holes in semiconductor chips put everything from servers to phones at risk. Here are some suggestions for speeding things up
A group of big banks plans to launch its own digital currency within a year
China’s CRISPR babies could face earlier death
A genetic mutation that protects against HIV leads to a shorter life span, researchers find.
Google and Amazon may be about to face tougher antitrust scrutiny in the US
Doubts surround a plan to build the world’s largest energy storage project
Why does Beijing suddenly care about AI ethics?
New guidelines on freedom and privacy protection signal that the Chinese state is open to dialogue about how it uses technology.
The guy who made a tool to track women in porn videos is sorry
The programmer supposedly used face recognition to match social-media photos with images from porn sites. Collecting that data would have been illegal in some countries but not others.
NASA has selected the first three companies bringing payloads to the moon
Nations are well behind on their pledges to invest in clean-energy innovation
The AI gig economy is coming for you
The artificial-intelligence industry runs on the invisible labor of humans working in isolated and often terrible conditions—and the model is spreading to more and more businesses.
DeepMind’s AI has used teamwork to beat humans at a first-person shooter
How a quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours
A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should worry anybody who needs to store data securely for 25 years or so.
Sorry, FCC—killing net neutrality probably didn’t expand internet access
FCC chairman Ajit Pai had claimed that rosy broadband numbers showed his deregulation approach was working.
Cancer? This researcher says he can see it in your blood
Another large-scale effort is under way to develop a doctor’s-office test to find cancer in people with no symptoms.
Prisoner’s dilemma shows exploitation is a basic property of human society
A new analysis of the famous game-theory puzzle finds that even when the players seem equal, one can learn to profit at the other’s expense—and the victim will cooperate.
Twitter wants help deciding whether to keep white supremacists or not
A bendable mirror is a step toward finding life outside our solar system
A CubeSat launching to space this year will provide a test run for future telescopes.
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