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Meet the Chinese crowdsourcers fighting coronavirus censorship
Faced with information suppression and untrustworthy news, citizens in China and Hong Kong do their best to chronicle the coronavirus outbreak and sift fact from fiction.
AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language
Natural-language processing has taken great strides recently—but how much does AI really understand of what it reads? Less than we thought.
DARPA is testing drones it can launch from a plane—then collect mid-air
WHO calls China coronavirus an international emergency, but opposes travel bans
Millions of people fell for crypto-Ponzi schemes in 2019
NASA is trying to save Voyager 2 after a power glitch shut down its instruments
Here’s how we could go carbon neutral in 25 years
The real trick is putting biowaste to work.
Gawker’s nemesis is working on a social network offering access to the rich
Business and technology leaders are being asked to spend $100,000 buying in to the service.
A squishy robot hand can sweat to cool itself down
Google says its new chatbot Meena is the best in the world
YouTube’s algorithm seems to be funneling people to alt-right videos
This is the highest-resolution photo of the sun ever taken
Astronomers turned on the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Maui and managed to snap this incredible view of the sun. And there’s more to come.
Why asking an AI to explain itself can make things worse
Creating neural networks that are more transparent can lead us to over-trust them. The solution might be to change how they explain themselves.
Facebook has finally launched its “clear history” button … but it doesn’t delete anything
AI-powered robot warehouse pickers are now ready to go to work
Covariant, a Berkeley-based startup, has come out of stealth and thinks its robots are ready for the big time.
The man who changed disruption—and saw his own theories get disrupted
What I learned from Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma.
A Harvard super chemist has been arrested over lying about secret China payments
The ISS is to get a new commercial habitable module (and it might be pretty cozy)
“A Trillion Trees” is a great idea—that could become a dangerous climate distraction
Reforestation is critical for lots of reasons, but it’s no substitute for cutting emissions.
Two old satellites could collide over the US on Wednesday
The UK will let Huawei build parts of its 5G networks—despite US pressure
40 groups have called for a US moratorium on facial recognition technology
Boeing and DirecTV are scrambling to move a satellite before it explodes
This is how a popular free antivirus program sells your data
Why private micro-networks could be the future of how we connect
Forget amassing likes or cultivating your online persona. Apps like Cocoon are all about being your true self with just a select few people.
How the North Korean hackers behind WannaCry got away with a stunning crypto-heist
The so-called Lazarus group has used elaborate phishing schemes and cutting-edge money-laundering tools to steal money for Kim Jong-un’s regime.
States are suing the US government over 3D-printed gun blueprints
Is the consumer genetics fad over?
Virus in Chinese outbreak is closest to one from bats, not snakes
NASA has now decided what it is going to send to the moon next year
These are the most detailed photos yet of the far side of the moon
The Chang’e 4 mission continues to give us an extraordinary first look at a part of the moon we’ve never explored before.
This map of a fly’s brain connectivity is the best we’ve ever seen
Vodafone is the eighth company to quit Facebook’s digital currency project
UN calls for investigation of Saudis allegedly hacking Jeff Bezos
A tangled web of espionage may point to an intimidation campaign by the powerful Saudi Crown Prince.
Google’s new idea to get you off your phone? Seal it in an envelope.
Facebook has trained an AI to navigate without needing a map
GM’s Cruise has unveiled a self-driving car with no steering wheel
What the GOP’s proposed climate policies would, and wouldn’t, do
And why it’s notable that Republicans are now talking about climate change at all.
IBM’s debating AI just got a lot closer to being a useful tool
A technique called argument mining lets machines comb through huge data sets to help us make decisions. It could supercharge voice assistants.
There’s been a huge spike in one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases
Your kid’s phone probably isn’t causing depression
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon abort system works—now it’s ready to send astronauts into space
Force social-media firms to share data to cut teen suicides, say psychiatrists
The EU might ban facial recognition in public for five years
Microsoft will invest $1 billion into carbon reduction and removal technologies
The software giant plans to offset all the emissions it produced since 1975.
Australia had plans to prevent fire blackouts. They just weren’t ready in time.
Bushfires have shown how vulnerable modern infrastructure can be—but there are projects underway to boost isolated communities when power and communications fall down.
The latest numbers on renewable investments are in, and they aren’t great
Here’s how just four satellites could provide worldwide internet
A group of engineers thinks it’s found a cheaper way to use high-altitude satellites to deliver global coverage.
This weird-looking pigeon is actually a drone that flies with real feathers
Criminals laundered $2.8 billion in 2019 using crypto exchanges, finds a new analysis
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