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Hackers linked to Iran have been trying to crack the US grid for ages, a report says
Eight revelations from MIT’s Jeffrey Epstein report
At one point, university officials had wanted to approve Epstein donations of up to $10 million.
Australia’s fires have pumped out more emissions than 100 nations combined
Climate change is driving climate change.
“Significant mistakes”: MIT releases details of Epstein funding scandal
An NBA star plans to turn his contract into digital tokens and sell them
Microsoft has created a tool to find pedophiles in online chats
The apps you use on your phone could help diagnose your cognitive health
Can constant acceleration be used to produce artificial gravity in space?
Your space questions, answered.
An Iranian missile took down the Ukrainian passenger jet, claim US officials
It’s 2020. American elections are still “frighteningly easy” targets.
Election tech giants were called before Congress weeks before the 2020 primary season begins. All of them support greater transparency.
Baidu’s “Xuperchain” launch is just the beginning of China’s blockchain rush
Sex tech is slowly making a comeback at CES. About time.
The world’s biggest tech show still has a long way to go in accepting that sex—and women—exist.
Can an AI be an inventor? Not yet.
But some campaigners are pushing for the rules to change.
NASA’s new exoplanet hunter found its first potentially habitable world
New “secure” voting machines are still vulnerable—because of voters
A major study shows that people rarely notice if their vote gets changed by hackers—even when using technology meant to protect the ballot.
TikTok has now explained what is and isn’t allowed on the app
We’re fighting fake news AI bots by using more AI. That’s a mistake.
Facebook and others are battling complex disinformation with AI-driven defences. But this can only get us so far, argues an expert on high-tech propaganda.
The FBI has asked Apple to help unlock the Florida gunman’s iPhones
SpaceX now operates the world’s biggest commercial satellite network
The US just released 10 principles that it hopes will make AI safer
All future AI regulations will need to clear the checklist.
Facebook has banned deepfakes. Sort of.
More gravitational waves have been spotted from another neutron star smash
The next big space telescope could spot Earth-like oxygen levels on exoplanets
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope could exploit an unnoticed feature to tell us about the amount of oxygen on distant worlds.
A two-legged delivery robot has gone on sale—and Ford is the first customer
This NASA satellite image shows the extent of Australia’s devastating wildfires
Why the quantum internet should be built in space
The best way to distribute quantum entanglement around the globe is via a massive constellation of orbiting satellites, physicists say.
Iran may launch “destructive” cyberattacks against the US, experts warn
“Disruptive and destructive” cyberattacks could be the fallout after President Trump targeted Iran’s military leader in a drone strike.
Google’s AI breast cancer screening tool is learning to generalize across countries
An elegy for cash: the technology we might never replace
Cash is gradually dying out. Will we ever have a digital alternative that offers the same mix of convenience and freedom?
Ransomware may have cost the US more than $7.5 billion in 2019
A star called Betelgeuse might be ready to explode into a giant supernova
The star has been dimming rapidly in the last few weeks, and scientists are keen to know why.
Yes, climate change is intensifying Australia’s fires
A virtual version of da Vinci’s mystery glass orb has helped explain its weirdness
The world’s costliest painting depicts a glass sphere with curious optical properties. Computer scientists figured out what the artist was getting at.
Hackers will be the weapon of choice for governments in 2020
From the Olympics to elections, nations use hackers to win a bigger geopolitical game.
The seven most exciting space missions of 2020
Four countries are sending robots to Mars, private companies will send humans into orbit, and we’re inching closer to seeing NASA return astronauts to the moon.
He Jiankui faces three years in prison for CRISPR babies
The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial.
In 2019 it became cool to be “real” online
Awkward angles, bad poses, and raw emotions: it was the year of posts about our true selves—or so we thought.
Meet the wannabe kidfluencers struggling for stardom
Millions of viewers flock to watch the biggest names on YouTube. But not everyone can be an online video hit.
Editor’s letter: How the next generation is using technology to mask, reveal, and form identity
An introduction to our special issue on youth
Play this bingo game with your kids to teach them about AI
Designed at MIT and tested by kids ages 9 through 14, it builds off research that shows how exposing kids to technology fosters their interest in STEM.
Teens are all obsessed with social media? Not so much.
Meet the young people who stay offline and hear why they’re doing it.
What I learned from studying billions of words of online fan fiction
Fanfic used to be a joke—now it’s teaching kids important skills like learning how to write.
I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married
A fiction story about artificial romance
Video games: scourge or savior?
For the past four decades our writers have explored whether video games are a plague upon our youth or the key to the future of education and computing.
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.
Baidu has a new trick for teaching AI the meaning of language
Inspired by a difference between Chinese and English, it shows how AI research benefits from diversity.
The five biggest space failures of 2019
Between NASA and SpaceX, Earth and Mars, there was plenty to groan about in 2019.
The 2010s were another lost decade on climate change
The only measurement that matters is greenhouse-gas emissions—and they continued to rise.
Our pathetically slow shift to clean energy, in five charts
We’d better pick up the pace in the 2020s.
2019 is the year tech finally started to deal with 2016
Internet companies have been slow to solve their problems. Now everyone else is starting to do it for them.
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