More from Dan Robitzski (Page 34)

Tesla patented a system that would replace good old fashioned windshield wipers with actual laser beams that zap away debris.
Tesla

Tesla Wants to Replace Windshield Wipers With Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

A new investigation reveals just how dangerous Amazon warehouses are for workers. Injuries are dangerously high, and people's jobs are always on the line.
Future Society

Report: Amazon Warehouses Are “Permanently Maiming” Workers

By Dan Robitzski

New deepfake-creating AI can make someone look and sound like Joe Rogan. While it's not perfect, it paints a troubling picture of the future.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Makes You Look and Sound Exactly Like Joe Rogan

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered fossils left behind in an ancient meteorite that reveal how ice was distributed throughout the early, still-forming solar system.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find “Ice Fossils” in Ancient Meteorite

By Dan Robitzski

Once again, London is trying to get rid of Uber over passenger safety concerns. And once again, Uber is confident that it's not going anywhere,
Future Society

Uber Just Got Kicked Out of London

By Dan Robitzski

While the idea of building a space colony or terraforming a new planet for humanity to colonize sounds intriguing, it's not a sustainable goal.
Off-World

Professor: Terraforming a New Home Planet Would Be Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

Google is reportedly ending its controversial program where it scanned homeless people's faces and turned them into AI training data.
Google

Google Decides to Stop Training AI on Homeless People’s Faces

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake shows what it would have looked like if the Apollo 11 mission failed and then-president Nixon had to deliver the backup speech he had ready.
Science & Energy

MIT Deepfake Shows Nixon Sadly Saying the Moon Astronauts Died

By Dan Robitzski

The Moon is covered in lunar swirls — magnetic anomalies that could act as natural shields from dangerous cosmic radiation.
Science & Energy

Spiral Formations on the Moon Appear to Deflect Cosmic Rays

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist and author Arthur Miller shares his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence, art, and what it means for machines to be creative.
Artificial Intelligence

Someday, Robot Artists May Have to Explain Their Creations to Us

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system called SchNOrb can probe the quantum mechanics of compounds to help scientists design new molecules from scratch.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Learning Quantum Mechanics to Design New Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

A doctoral candidate has a unique idea for how to colonize Mars: send bacteria to digest the soil and churn out useable raw materials for future settlers.
Mars

Unusual PhD Thesis: Let’s Use Bacteria to Colonize Mars

By Dan Robitzski

An app called Spelfie can take a picture of you from a satellite. The resolution won't be good enough to pick yourself out, but it can show for big groups.
Science & Energy

This App Takes a Picture of You From a Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

A truly bizarre evangelical app tries to keep people from watching porn by using AI to filter it out and sending alerts to their friends if they slip up.
Artificial Intelligence

Horrible Christian App Narcs to Your Mom If You Watch Porn

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that a fiery layer of super-hot plasma marks the transition between our solar system and interstellar space.
Solar Power

Our Solar System Is Blanketed in a Giant Wall of Fire

By Dan Robitzski

A new mission plans to determine once and for all whether spacetime is a smooth fabric or a chunky mess of discrete units.
Physics

Satellite Mission Will Investigate Whether Reality Is Pixelated

By Dan Robitzski

Decades later, people who had half their brain removed as children have stronger neural connections and function than doctors expected.
Neuroscience and Brain

People With Half Their Brain Removed Are Doing Surprisingly Well

By Dan Robitzski

Over 30 years after it blew up, astronomers finally spotted the cosmic wreckage — a neutron star hidden in a dense cloud of dust — of a famous supernova.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Just Found the Wreckage Cloud From a 1987 Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

In order to make robots more effective at their jobs, scientists suggest programming them with an inate fear of their own deaths.
Robotics

To Make Robots Perform Better, Make Them Constantly Fear Death

By Dan Robitzski

A wave of questionable startups claim they can test your DNA and make complicated predictions about your personality and health. Experts say it's hogwash.
DNA

“Like Horoscope Readings!”: The Scammy World of DNA Test Startups

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists found evidence that ribose, a key sugar in genetic molecules, may have come to earth through the impacts of meteorites.
Evolution

NASA Says It Found Building Blocks of Life in Fallen Meteorites

By Dan Robitzski

People are creating realistic avatars of celebrities or their own exes and having sex with them in virtual reality, raising issues of consent and privacy.
3D Printing

People Are Selling 3D Virtual Sex Models of Celebs, Exes

By Dan Robitzski

A professor speculating about simulation theory suggests that ghosts and other paranormal sightings could be signs that our simulated reality is glitching.
Science & Energy

Computer Scientist: Ghosts Could Be Sign Universe Is Simulated

By Dan Robitzski

Heliogen's new solar oven can focus sunlight and reach temperatures high enough to manufacture steel and cement without any fossil fuels.
Solar Power

Bill Gates-Funded Startup Unveils “Holy Grail” of Solar Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A bioethicist argues that making gene-hacked designer babies is not only possible but ethically responsible, if it means eradicated diseases.
Gene Editing

Bioethicist Argues That We Need a CRISPR Baby Industry ASAP

By Dan Robitzski

A blind man who went through brain surgery to get outfitted with a new bionic eye says he can see some things for the first time in years.
RX and Medicine

A Man’s New Bionic Eye Lets Him See After an Accident Blinded Him

By Dan Robitzski

Ever since Trump announced a flavored vape ban, advisers and lobbyists have been trying to nip it in the bud. Now, it seems that they succeeded.
Developments

Courting “Vapers Who Vote,” Trump May Cancel Flavored Vape Ban

By Dan Robitzski

YouTubers systematically tested over 15,000 keywords to demonstrate that YouTube is automatically demonetizing LGBTQ content.
Future Society

Is YouTube Demonetizing Videos That Mention LGBTQ Words?

By Dan Robitzski

Space companies trying to make off-world tourism a thing will likely cause major environmental destruction in the process as spaceflight ramps up.
Off-World

The Toll Casual Space Tourism Will Take on the Planet (Updated)

By Dan Robitzski

Companies in India like Oxy Pure are selling customers access to pure oxygen as the area's air pollution becomes increasingly dangerous.
Future Society

As Air Pollution Spikes, Indian “Bars” Sell Clean Oxygen

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, Sophia the robot answered a question about love by saying it doesn't have sex. Now, Sophia's developers say the robot got confused.
Robotics

Sophia the Robot Says She Doesn’t Have Sex, Confusing Creators

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that extended trips into space might cause cognitive decline in astronauts, as the brain changes without the influence of gravity.
Science & Energy

New Research: Astronauts Are Experiencing Cognitive Decline

By Dan Robitzski

Nine year old Belgian genius Laurent Simons is on track to graduate with a degree in electrical engineering this year. He plans to grow artificial organs.
Science & Energy

A 9-Year-Old Genius Is Getting an Engineering Degree Next Month

By Dan Robitzski

Phil Schiller, the head of marketing at Apple, argues that students with Chromebooks in their classroom instead of iPads won't succeed.
Science & Energy

Apple Exec: Kids With Chromebooks Are “Not Going to Succeed”

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft-owned Github dumped physical copies of the world's open source code in an apocalypse-proof vault to save it for when society collapses.
Future Society

Microsoft Is Hiding Source Code in an Apocalypse-Proof Cave

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk recently claimed that Neuralink tech would be able to "cure" autism, along with schizophrenia. But autism isn't a brain disease that needs a cure.
Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk Claims Neuralink Can “Solve” Autism, Schizophrenia

By Dan Robitzski

Chilean protestors banded together to disable a hovering police drone using hundreds of consumer laser pointers in a dazzling concerted effort.
Future Society

Watch Protestors Kill a Drone Using Hundreds of Laser Pointers

By Dan Robitzski

Nobel-winning cosmologist James Peebles argues that we need a better way to describe how the beginning of the universe happened than the "Big Bang."
Science & Energy

Nobel-Winning Scientist: I Have No Idea if the Big Bang Happened

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists attempted a bizarre new way to spot dark matter: using antimatter probes. It hasn't worked yet, but the scientists have some ideas.
Physics

New Research: Antimatter Could Be Portal to “Dark Universe”

By Dan Robitzski

Academics in South Korea are naming kids — theirs, their friends, or others — as coauthors on their papers to help with college admissions.
Science & Energy

Professors are Naming Their Kids as Co-authors in Academic Papers

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists spotted a runaway star traveling across the galaxy so rapidly that it will never return and traced its path back to our supermassive black hole.
Science & Energy

A Supermassive Black Hole Yeeted This Star at 3.7 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that vaping is just as bad for your heart as is smoking cigarettes. In some ways, vapes are even worse.
RX and Medicine

New Research: Vaping Is Incredibly Bad for Your Heart

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook hired the cofounder of a media outlet that's specifically biased against Elizabeth Warren to head its recently-launched news service.
Future Society

Facebook’s Head of News Founded an Anti-Warren Website

By Dan Robitzski

One man recently got a double lung transplant because he vaped so much that he caused irreparable damage to his respiratory system.
RX and Medicine

This Person Vaped So Much They Needed a Double Lung Transplant

By Dan Robitzski

Astro Live Experiences is just about ready to send its long-promised, artificial shooting star-launching satellite into orbit.
Science & Energy

A Satellite That Fires Fake Shooting Stars Is Ready to Launch

By Dan Robitzski

Asked whether it's ever been in love, Sophia the Robot told the crowd at the 2019 Web Summit that "No. I don't do sexual activities."
Robotics

Sophia the Robot Tells Crowded Room That It Doesn’t Have Sex

By Dan Robitzski

The Apple Card has granted women a lower credit limit than their husbands in a number of high-profile cases, raising questions about bias behind the scenes.
Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak Says the Apple Card Discriminated Against His Wife

By Dan Robitzski

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi compared his company's self-driving car killing someone to Saudi Arabia murdering a journalist, calling both simple mistakes.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Uber CEO Compares Self-Driving Car Crash to Murdering Journalists

By Dan Robitzski

New CDC research solidifies scientists' hunch that a compound called vitamin E acetate is causing the ongoing "vape lung" outbreak.
Chemistry

The CDC Says It Really Knows What’s Causing “Vape Lung” This Time

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists detected a thermonuclear explosion in space, which they believe was caused by a fusion reaction on the surface of a pulsar.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast in Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski

Ambrosia Health, the "young blood" transfusion clinic formerly known as Ivy Plasma, is back, touting a new overnight shipping service.
Developments

Ambrosia Is Back to Selling Transfusions of Young People’s Blood

By Dan Robitzski

The top trends on Twitter included X-rated terms and references to sexual violence that somehow got past its content moderation tools.
Robots and Machines

Twitter Accidentally Trends Horrifyingly Explicit Sexual Terms

By Dan Robitzski

AI-AItech, the company behind a sex robot named Emma, plans to release a more realistic model that can walk, move its arms, and breathe in and out.
Robotics

This Company Invented a Sex Robot That Breathes

By Dan Robitzski

India's space agency is waiting for the green light on a planned mission to visit and map out the entire surface of Venus.
Science & Energy

India’s Space Agency Wants to Explore Venus

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Genomic Prediction offers report cards based on the DNA test of frozen embryos. Experts say it's reminiscent of eugenics.
DNA

DNA Test Startup Claims It Can Spot Embryos With Low Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Over a year later, the veteran who got the world's first penis transplant that included the scrotum and surrounding flesh reports that he's doing just fine.
Developments

Doctors Announce First Ever “Fully Functional” Penis Transplant

By Dan Robitzski

By connecting satellites with ultra-thin tethers, engineers could safely steer them back to Earth with a space propulsion system, no fuel required.
Off-World

The US Is Testing a Space Propulsion System That Doesn’t Use Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk says he's "looking into" making a Tesla feature that turns off proximity sensors while people wait in drive-through lanes.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Alarmed That Teslas Beep Constantly in Drive-Thru Lanes

By Dan Robitzski

A Redditor designed a hat to thwart facial recognition by literally putting on a picture of Chinese President XI Jinping's face which blocks their face.
Future Society

This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Geneticist Chris Mason has an unusual idea for helping future astronauts survive the trip to Mars: gene-hack them with tardigrade DNA that blocks radiation.
Mars

This Scientist Wants to Gene-Hack Hybrid Humans to Survive Mars

By Dan Robitzski

China is actively selling killer drones to the Middle East, and one company is working to market its fully-autonomous robots.
Drones

China Is Selling Autonomous Killer Drones to the Middle East

By Dan Robitzski

U.K. Health Minister Matt Hancock envisions a future where every child born in the country gets a genome sequence to scan for rare diseases.
Gene Editing

UK Plans to Give All Children Full Genome Sequence at Birth

By Dan Robitzski

Over the last year, the number of posts on Reddit where people asked for help diagnosing a condition have doubled, especially when it comes to an STI.
Studies

People Are Posting Their Genitals on Reddit to Get STI Diagnoses

By Dan Robitzski

An alien-themed brothel in Nevada called Alien Cathouse just bought an AI sex robot to cater to clients with unusual fetishes.
Robotics

An Alien-Themed Brothel Just Bought a Sex Robot

By Dan Robitzski