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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.
Jarhead author: Drones and robots won’t make war easier—they’ll make it worse
Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran.
How a new class of startups are working to solve the grid storage puzzle
Form Energy, Antora, and others are trying to develop very cheap, very long-lasting storage to clean up the electricity system.
This girl’s dramatic story shows hyper-personalized medicine is possible—and costly
Doctors say gene medicine tailored to a single person can work, but it still costs millions.
Lithium-ion’s pioneers nabbed the Nobel. Now we need the next battery breakthrough.
Hong Kong protesters get pro bono cybersecurity help from Silicon Valley
Rocket ride-shares could make going to space like catching a bus
Rocket launches that leave on a regular schedule will make it much cheaper and easier to get small satellites into orbit.
A Senate report has ideas for fighting disinformation. Don’t hold your breath.
Machine vision has learned to use radio waves to see through walls and in darkness
An algorithm uses radio waves rather than visible light to detect what people are up to without revealing what they look like.
Could a habitable planet orbit a supermassive black hole?
A black hole offers plenty of energy sources that might give life a foothold. But a NASA scientist has determined that despite what you saw in the movies, habitable conditions nearby are pretty unlikely.
Amazon’s new Kindle for Kids is probably not as good for kids as real books
California’s shutting off power to prevent fires. Here are some better options.
Microgrids, buried lines, better building standards and more.
The US just blacklisted 8 Chinese AI firms. It could be what China’s AI industry needs.
The Nobel Prize in physics has gone to the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a star
Astronomers have just discovered 20 new moons orbiting Saturn
Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon
The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming.
The Pentagon wants to launch satellite constellations to track missiles
Forget fake news—nearly all deepfakes are being made for porn
PayPal has backed out of Facebook’s digital currency project
This is how you kick facial recognition out of your town
Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.
Microsoft says Iranian hackers tried to breach a US presidential campaign
A brain-controlled exoskeleton has let a paralyzed man walkin the lab
Facebook is being asked to give access to encrypted messages. It’s a bad idea.
Tiny AI models could supercharge autocorrect and voice assistants on your phone
Network science reveals the secrets of the world’s best soccer team
A new kind of analysis shows why the Barcelona team of 2009-10 stands head and shoulders above the rest. And the same approach could do the same for other sports.
Should central banks issue digital currency? Suddenly, it’s an urgent question.
Stable digital currencies—and particularly Facebook’s plans to launch one—have central bankers playing defense.
Want to hear what Mars sounds like? You can now listen for yourself.
NASA has shared audio snippets of Martian quakes detected by the InSight lander earlier this year.
France plans to use facial recognition to let citizens access government services
DNA samples may be taken from migrants at the US-Mexico border to share with the FBI
No one agrees what it means for a planet to be “habitable”
What makes an extraterrestrial world habitable? New tools and modeling software are providing clues.
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