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Updated 2024-11-25 01:15
Google’s big plan to fight tech addiction: A piece of paper
Paper Phone is not a joke—it’s part of the company’s “digital well-being experiments.” Digital detox experts aren’t having it.
Are there any realistic spaceflight technologies from Star Wars?
Your space questions, answered.
Scientists have spotted a tiny black hole that may be just 12 miles across
AI could help us deconstruct why some songs just make us feel so good
Machine learning can map which musical qualities trigger what types of physical and emotional responses. One day the technique could even be used in music therapy.
The US thinks TikTok could be a national security threat—here’s why
The scientists who are creating a bio-internet of things
The internet of things connects devices across the globe. Now researchers are considering how bacteria can join the network.
Russia’s law that lets it disconnect from the internet comes into force today
Meet the pigs that could solve the human organ transplant crisis
On a farm in Bavaria, German researchers are using gene editing to create pigs that could provide organs to save thousands of lives.
Interstellar comet Borisov may be carrying water from outside our solar system
Facebook is under fire for political ads. Twitter just banned them completely.
Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect
The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
NASA will use a robot to listen out for danger on the ISS
A flying robot armed with a suite of microphones will roam through the space station and listen for any worrying clinks and clanks.
A robot puppet can learn to walk if it’s hooked up to human legs
Robots might be able to navigate unfamiliar environments if they copy what we do.
DeepMind’s AI has now outcompeted nearly all human players at StarCraft II
AlphaStar cooperated with itself to learn new strategies for conquering the popular galactic warfare game.
An activist’s gimmick shows how Facebook’s political ads policy is full of holes
WhatsApp is suing the world’s top hacking company
One of the most powerful tech firms on earth takes on the Israeli cyber surveillance firm NSO Group.
Sea-level rise could flood hundreds of millions more than expected
Princeton researchers found that far more people are living closer to the ocean than previously believed.
Facebook will now remind you to get health checkups (if you want)
Russian hackers are targeting the 2020 Olympics
China’s leaders have embraced blockchains (er, minus the decentralized bit)
NASA is sending a rover to the moon to look for water ice
Can we use powerful lights to propel spacecraft at the speed of light?
Your space questions, answered.
Microsoft has beaten Amazon to the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract
A neural net solves the three-body problem 100 million times faster
Machine learning provides an entirely new way to tackle one of the classic problems of applied mathematics.
The secret to better beer could lie in cell signaling networks
Reusing yeast is an old brewer’s trick that saves time and money, but it eventually backfires. Cell biologists are trying to find out why—and the answers could conceivably combat aging as well.
Hackers shut down Johannesburg’s networks once again
DARPA is betting on AI to bring the next generation of wireless devices online
In the agency’s latest grand challenge, teams competed for $2 million and a chance to shape the future of communication technology by finding a better way to carve up the radio spectrum.
A biased medical algorithm favored white people for health-care programs
It’s not just Congress—China’s tech giants are scared of Facebook’s Libra too
Employees say Google is trying to spy on them. That’ll be hard to prove.
What does spying mean when workplace surveillance is the norm?
The limits of Chinese military power
The US military is without peer in its ability to project power around the world, and that’s not about to change.
Critics say Facebook’s Libra threatens America’s power. Zuck says they’ve got it all wrong.
Why America isn’t equipped for the new rules of war
“They’re all doing it: Russia, China, Iran … They’re all fighting these things called shadow wars, and they’re very effective,” says an ex-paratrooper and academic.
We are finally getting better at predicting organized conflict
New techniques have made predictions more useful, and we used one to look at violence in Ethiopia since the election of Abiy Ahmed, the new Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Why explosives detectors still can’t beat a dog’s nose
The oldest technology for detecting trace amounts of materials remains the best.
Editor’s letter: The case against—and for—tech in war
An introduction to our special issue on war and peace
Telegram might be forced to put its global cryptocurrency plans on ice
A robot hand taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube after creating its own training regime
Researchers at OpenAI have developed a new method for transferring complex manipulation skills from simulated to physical environments.
A galaxy cluster has been used as a magnifying glass to view the ancient universe
The UK just got more power from renewables than fossil fuels for the first time
Were people really happier in the past? Millions of pieces of text suggest not.
Meet the wounded veteran who got a penis transplant
He nearly lost it all to an IED blast in Afghanistan. But a pioneering procedure changed everything.
The wheels may be coming off Facebook’s digital currency project Libra
Powerful computer vision algorithms are now small enough to run on your phone
Virgin Orbit says it wants to send tiny spacecraft to Mars in 2022
The company’s LauncherOne system is designed to send satellites to low-Earth orbit. Does it really have the power to send a payload to the Red Planet?
Twitter and Facebook won’t remove false Trump campaign ads about Biden
Why it’s time to start talking about blockchain ethics
Blockchain technology is changing the nature of money and organizations. We should probably start pondering the potential consequences.
India’s solar and wind boom is fizzling
Germany’s synagogue shooting was live-streamed on Twitch—but almost no one saw it
The rapid response to the shootings in Halle shows how tech firms are learning from Christchurch.
The biggest threat of deepfakes isn’t the deepfakes themselves
The mere idea of AI-synthesized media is already making people stop believing that real things are real.
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