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Champagne, shotguns, and surveillance at spyware’s grand bazaar
The world’s leading surveillance and spyware companies gathered in Paris to meet growing demand from governments around the world.
A leaked excerpt of TikTok moderation rules shows how political content gets buried
The developing world has hit the brakes on clean energy
Uber has just lost its license to operate in London
Is it safe to build a space elevator with so much junk in orbit?
Your space questions, answered.
Video game addiction is now being recognized—what happens next?
Finding help can be a struggle for gamers who feel their playing has gotten out of control.
Alphabet X’s “Everyday Robot” project is making machines that learn as they go
Machine learning has revealed exactly how much of a Shakespeare play was written by someone else
Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question—and who actually wrote them.
Google is going to deploy Loon balloons in rural Peru
Why a digital dollar isn’t coming anytime soon (or so the Fed says)
While central bank digital currencies may address problems in other countries, the US doesn’t have those problems, according to Fed chair Jerome Powell.
Can photonic chips save Bitcoin?
Cryptocurrencies are famously energy hungry. So some researchers say the answer is a more energy-efficient form of computing.
We’ve detected the most powerful gamma-ray bursts on record
A new pair of gamma-ray bursts includes one that’s 10 times more powerful than the previous record holder.
A sensor-packed “skin” could let you cuddle your child in virtual reality
A giant, superfast AI chip is being used to find better cancer drugs
A new generation of specialized hardware could make drug development and material discovery orders of magnitude faster.
Can Earth’s gravity really be affected by changes in the seasons?
Your space questions, answered.
AI will disrupt white-collar workers the most, predicts a new report
Companies declare signs of success in CRISPR treatment of blood disorders
Even if they can’t vote, teens are roasting Pete Buttigieg on TikTok
No major Democractic candidate has a presence on the wildly popular social video platform. That’s a big missed opportunity.
How heat from the sun could help clean up steel and cement
Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross has launched a new solar thermal venture, designed to cut climate emissions from industrial heat.
Logjams aren’t really jammed at all, say geoscientists
The first study of the way logs become pinned in rivers reveals that those seemingly trapped in a logjam move steadily, if slowly, downriver.
Scientists have found 142 more ancient etchings in Peru. Now AI will speed up the hunt.
Why the Hubble is unlike any other satellite in history
In this excerpt from her book Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention, the first American woman to walk in space tells what it was like to be part of the team that designed and launched the space telescope.
Listen to the sound of Earth’s magnetic field as it’s pummeled by a solar storm
These strange new sounds underscore the complexities at play when solar storm events head for Earth.
Why the electric-car revolution may take a lot longer than expected
An MIT analysis finds that steady declines in battery costs will stall in the next few years.
This is the first global map of Saturn’s moon Titan
A responsive “skin” could let you cuddle your child in virtual reality
Iran has shut off internet access for its citizens amid fuel price protests
Most Americans think they’re being constantly tracked—and that there’s nothing they can do
There’s an easy way to make lending fairer for women. Trouble is, it’s illegal.
Goldman Sachs defended itself in the Apple Card scandal by saying it did not consider gender when calculating creditworthiness. If it did, that could actually mitigate the problem.
One of CRISPR’s inventors has called for controls on gene-editing technology
Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
Apple just released an app that tracks your heart, hearing, and menstrual cycles
The landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover might be home to fossilized life
Two new studies raise the possibility that the next Mars mission will find fossils of organic life or preserved biosignatures at Jezero crater.
Help us pick the next great young innovators
Our 2020 contest for the 35 Innovators Under 35 is now open for nominations.
Facebook says it’s getting better at weeding out child sex abuse images
Where do humans live? A new map offers more detail than ever before.
Human settlements are the cause and consequence of most environmental and societal changes on Earth. The World Settlement Footprint pinpoints them with unprecedented accuracy.
China says its digital currency will have “controllable anonymity”—but who will control it?
Now Google wants to get into banking too
5G has security flaws that could let hackers track your location
Health websites are sharing sensitive medical data with Google, Facebook, and Amazon
How to turn the complex mathematics of vector calculus into simple pictures
Feynman diagrams revolutionized particle physics. Now mathematicians want to do the same for vector calculus.
Google is to get access to millions of Americans’ personal health data
Twitter says it may warn users about deepfakes—but won’t remove them
Apple Card is being investigated over claims it gives women lower credit limits
How the world’s biggest gun helped solve a long-standing space mystery
A fog of micro-debris poses major risks to satellites and spaceships—and this test suggests there is a lot more of it than anyone had thought
The computing power needed to train AI is now rising seven times faster than ever before
An updated analysis from OpenAI shows how dramatically the need for computational resources has increased to reach each new AI breakthrough.
A natural biomolecule has been measured acting like a quantum wave for the first time
Physicists have watched a chain of 15 amino acids interfere with itself, in an experiment that paves the way for a new era of quantum biology.
Will the universe’s expansion mean planets no longer orbit stars?
Your space questions, answered.
The UK’s election will put Facebook’s political ad policies to the test
The world’s first Gattaca baby tests are finally here
The DNA test claims to let prospective parents weed out IVF embryos with a high risk of disease or low intelligence.
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