China Will Send Two Robots to Study the Moon

To Detect Bombs Efficiently and Cheaply, Try Using Wi-Fi

Want To Snag A Job Mining Asteroids Someday? You Can Now Get Your Masters In It.

The Boring Company Plans to Drill a Tunnel to Dodger Stadium

A Mean Robot Supervisor Could Make You a Better-Performing Employee

Having a not-nice bot nearby stresses people out, so they perform better.

August 17, 2018
#bosses#humanoid robot#robots

Google Employees Have Become the Company’s Moral Compass

Hundreds have written to protest Google's decision to create a Chinese search app.

August 17, 2018
#dragonfly#ethics#Google

Music Made by AI Composers Can Help Your Improve Concentration

Music composed by AI can help improve your concentration through purposefully designed sound and endless playlists.

August 17, 2018
#ai#ai music#brain.fm

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Monsanto’s Court Ruling Marks a Turning Point for Cancer-Causing WeedKiller

Here’s What We Know About SpaceX’s Crewed Dragon Spacecraft

Elon Musk’s Money Run for the Future of Tesla Starts Now—Here’s How He’ll Try to Pull It Off

I Tried Apple’s Screen Time Tool. The Results Were Not Heartening.

Pre-Teen Hackers Prove It: The U.S. Election System Simply Isn’t Secure Enough

The U.S. Military Now Has the Money It Needs to Prepare for Climate Change

Google May Still Be Tracking You, Even If You Opted Out

The FDA Has Approved a Contraceptive App. Now More Could Flood the Market.

Tesla’s Investors Make the Company. They May Also Ruin Its CEO.

Elon Musk is fraying at the edges. Now we know why.

August 17, 2018
#elon musk#short sellers#tesla

OpenAI’s Robotic Hand Learned to Make Precise, Human-like Movements

In order to consistently perform with high-precision the robotic hand needs to be able to react to a variety of objects.

August 16, 2018
#dactyl#machine learning#OpenAI

Creating a Space Force Could Trigger an Off-World Arms Race

We don't know how war in space will look. But establishing a Space Force ensures it'll happen.

August 16, 2018
#china#global arms race#GPS

This Week in Tech: Aug 11 – Aug 17, 2018

Spacecraft Tours, Smartphone Addiction, Therapy Bots, and More

You Can Now Buy The World’s First Graphene Jacket, And It’s Everything You Want It To Be

It could finally get graphene out of labs and into the world.

August 16, 2018
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The SEC Just Subpoenaed Elon Musk Over His Tesla Tweets

The 420 might get Musk in trouble.

August 15, 2018
#breaking news#elon musk#sec

Who’s Gonna Charge Autonomous EVs? Seems Like It Might Be This Robot.

The robot charges EVs, no human hands required.

August 15, 2018
#Autonomous vehicles#charging#electric vehicles

There’s a New 5G Smartphone Coming, and It Might Finally Make the Next-Gen Network Mainstream

The device will be the first to be able to connect to 5G networks right out of the box.

August 15, 2018
#5G#cell phones#Networks

Children Get Pretty Easily Peer Pressured By Robots

Children are inclined to follow a robot's lead.

August 15, 2018
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A $50 Genetic Test Can Tell How Likely You Are to Have a Heart Attack

One number would show your risk of developing five different diseases based on your DNA.

August 15, 2018
#diagnostics#genetics#healthcare

Advanced Transport

Elon Musk Wants All Autonomous Cars to Be as Secure as Tesla’s

Waymo’s Phoenix Project Could Tell Us If Self-Driving Cars Can Improve Public Transportation

Apple May Prove Powerful Enough to Get the U.S. Its First Hyperloop

Uber Kills Self-Driving Truck Division, Clearing the Road for Tesla

Artificial Intelligence

AI Analysis Uncovers Coral Reefs Resistant to Climate Change

AI Can Make Sure Cancer Patients Get Just Enough (but Not Too Much) Treatment

AI Is Shining a Spotlight on Women Scientists That Were Previously Overlooked

This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”

Earth & Energy

No Existing Policies Will Be Enough To Prevent A Future “Hothouse Earth”

Geoengineering Would Hurt Earth’s Crops More Than It Would Help Them, Says Study

The U.S. Has a New Plan to Deter Would-Be Hackers

Science is Reducing Plastic Pollution in our Food Chain. Here’s How.

Enhanced Humans

Exoskeletons are About to Walk Ford’s Factory Floors

The Pentagon Tells Soldiers To Stop Sharing Their Locations With Apps

Think You Could Do More if You Just Had an Extra Hand? You’re Probably Right.

Creating Genetically Modified Babies Is “Morally Permissible,” Says Ethics Committee

Future Society

The First Trailer For A Hard-Hitting Blockchain Documentary Is Here [Sponsored]

Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data

Hackers Find Earth’s Satellite Communication Systems Aren’t All That Secure

Explaining Its Decisions Isn’t Going To Make Twitter Better

Hard Science

Scientists Observe a Star That Spews Plasma — And It’s Not Our Sun

NASA Just Launched A New Space Probe That Will Venture Closer to the Sun Than Any Craft Before It

Figuring out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding Might Require a New Type of Physics

Engineers Use CRISPR to Create A New Species With Just One Chromosome

Health & Medicine

New Technology Enables the First 3D Full-Color X-Rays of Our Bodies

Freezing And Storing Donated Organs Could Eliminate Some Transplant Waitlists

Here’s How Vaping Really Compares to Smoking Cigarettes

Scientists Knew Blue Light From Screens Contributed to Blindness. Now They Know Why.

Off World

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft is Searching Space for Earth-Like Planets

Here’s How President Trump and His VP Plan to Get Their Space Force

Tour NASA’s Five 3D Printed Mars Habitat Competition Finalists

SpaceX Just Launched A Rocket With A Critical Reused Part

Robots & Machines

Interacting With This Therapy Bot Can Help Children With Autism Perfect Their Social Skills

Someone Just Used a Drone to Try to Assassinate a World Leader

Humanoid Robots Can Manipulate Our Emotions When We Least Expect It

MIT Researchers Create an Aerosol Spray Loaded With Nanobots

Sci-Fi Visions

New York City Council Capped The Number Of Ubers Allowed On City Streets

Turns Out Musk Might Actually Be Serious About Taking Tesla Private

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round

Facebook Just Shut Down Dozens of Fake Pages

Virtuality

Augmented Reality Recreates A New York City Not Seen for Centuries

Virtual Reality Has Reached A “Tipping Point.” It’s Officially Here to Stay.

This VR Horror Game Is Exactly as Scary as Your Body Can Handle

Hands on Virtual Reality, No Remotes Required

This Week in Science: Aug 11 – Aug 17, 2018

Monsanto Lawsuits, Frozen Organs, Contraceptive Apps, and More

Researchers Inadvertently Discover Crypto Scam Involving 15,000 Twitter Bots

The scam is still going on.

August 7, 2018
#bots#cryptocurrency#the digest

That Hack of the FCC’s Comment Section Last Year? It Never Actually Happened, Agency Admits

Sike.

August 7, 2018
#ajit pai#ddos attacks#fcc

The New Operating System for Digital Finance

Install the update.

August 6, 2018
#blockchain#futurism markets#investing

Facebook Is Asking Banks to Share Data on Customers’ Spending Habits

So far banks haven't accepted due to privacy concerns.

August 6, 2018
#banking#facebook#financial data

This Week in Tech: July 28 – Aug 3, 2018

AI Robot Hands, Tesla Surfboards, Cryptojacking, and More

Starbucks’s New Crypto Platform Could Bring Bitcoin Into the Mainstream

You'll soon be able to use crypto to buy your cold brew.

August 3, 2018
#bitcoin#cryptocurrency#starbucks

This Week in Science: July 28 – Aug 3, 2018

Lab-Grown Lungs, Terraforming Mars, 3D Printed Guns, and More

Ontario Ends Its Three-Year Basic Income Trial After Just One Year

“It was certainly not going to be sustainable.”

August 2, 2018
#ontario#the digest#UBI

Google’s Censored Chinese Search Engine Shows It’s No Longer Afraid of U.S. Backlash

Google came under fire for such a move a decade ago, but today, it’s just business as usual.

August 1, 2018
#censorship#china#Google
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