More from Dan Robitzski (Page 35)

T-Mobile's parent comapny, Deutsche Telekom, is suing the insurance company Lemonade for using the color magenta in its advertisements.
Future Society

T-Mobile Says It Has Legal Rights to That Obnoxious Pink Color

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of crafting a complex code to share mathematical and scientific knowledge with aliens, the best way to communicate might be using our lanuages.
Science & Energy

To Chat With Aliens, We Should Beam an Encyclopedia to Space

By Dan Robitzski

An online calculator shows what would happen if a black hole gulped down the Earth or any other objects floating around in space.
Science & Energy

Here’s What Would Happen if Earth Collided With a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A peer-reviewed academic journal has made the bizarre choice to publish a paper that says women are inherently worse at physics despite knowing it's flawed.
Physics

Paper in Peer-Reviewed Journal Claims Women Are Bad at Physics

By Dan Robitzski

While the U.S. doesn't have a social credit score system like China, several shadowy companies are using private data to do something similar in the U.S.
Science & Energy

Here’s How to Check Your Totalitarian “Social Credit Score”

By Dan Robitzski

The life expectancy for American men has steadily dropped for several years. Meanwhile, deaths from drug overdose have nearly doubled.
Developments

The Life Expectancy for American Men Keeps Falling

By Dan Robitzski

A satirical app called "Bull and Moon" recommends stocks to people based on their astrological sign, offering a "compatibility score" for companies.
Robots and Machines

Investment App Recommends Stocks Based on Your Horoscope

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious robotics company wants to buy the rights to someone's face so it can put them on its new line of virtual humanoid companion robots.
Robotics

Startup: We’ll Pay You $125,000 to Turn Your Face Into Robot Skin

By Dan Robitzski

China has a new plan to send robotic vehilces to the Moon and bring back lunar samples of rocks. It'll be the first lunar retrieval mission since 1976.
Moon

China Is Going to the Moon, Coming Back With Moon Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

The Keystone Pipeline just had a spill of over 380,000 gallons of crude oil into North Dakota wetlands, the latest in a line of catastrophic oil spills.
Energy

The US Said This Pipeline Would Have “No Impact.” Now It’s Leaking Crude Oil.

By Dan Robitzski

The 1982 sci-fi film "Blade Runner" takes place in November 2019. Needless to say, our tech fell a teensy bit short of what the movie predicted.
Artificial Intelligence

“Blade Runner” Was Set This Month. Where Are Our Flying Cars?

By Dan Robitzski

The latest from music coding group Dadabots is a neural net trained on Cannibal Corpse music and lyrics that writes endless metal about killing humans.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Trained a Neural Net Using a Cannibal Corpse Album

By Dan Robitzski

Astronauts on the International Space Station played a quick game of low-gravity baseball in orbit to promote the World Series.
International Space Station

Watch Astronauts Play Baseball on the International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

A new visualization shows just how vast space is by taking people from the size of an astronaut to that of the entire universe.
Science & Energy

This Amazing Visualization Shows You How Big Space Really Is

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT engineers claims to have built a carbon capture system that could remove carbon dioxide from the environment at an industrial scale.
Environment

MIT Scientists Say They Found a New Way to Scrub Atmospheric CO2

By Dan Robitzski

There's a correlation between the prices of avocados and the price of Bitcoin. It's all-but-certainly a fluke, but certainly a bizarre one.
Bitcoin

There’s a Correlation Between the Price of Bitcoin and Avocados

By Dan Robitzski

During his recent Congressional hearing, Mark Zuckerberg was asked if he would ever spend a day moderating Facebook. He wasn't keen on the idea.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Look at Horrible Facebook Gore

By Dan Robitzski

The New York Times (NYT) fired its Senior Director of Information Security and eliminated the position, leaving reporters to defend themselves from hackers.
Hacking

The NYT Fired the Person Who Protects Its Reporters From Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Those "personal food computers" from the MIT Media Lab that were supposed to help refugees grow crops on the move never worked, its creator's bold claims.
Computers

MIT Researcher Lied About Feeding Refugees With “Food Computers”

By Dan Robitzski

Venus is covered in mountains made of crystal, which scientists now think are formed by lava made of "crystal mush" that squeezes through the crust.
Science & Energy

Venus Is Covered in Gigantic Crystal Volcanoes

By Dan Robitzski

A browser game called "Aim and Shoot" pits the player against human-hunting neural networks that learn to become increasingly deadly.
Artificial Intelligence

In This Browser Game, Your Opponents Are Neural Networks

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists argue that they figured out how to spot wormholes, should any of the theoretical cosmic portals actually exist.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Finally Figured Out How to Spot Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

In a distant star system, two fully-formed exoplanets crashed into each other, leaving an unusual trail of space dust and debris in their wake.
Science & Energy

Two Exoplanets Collided, Leaving a Trail of Planetary Gore

By Dan Robitzski

A Pentagon report predicts that American infrastructure and the U.S. military could collapse within 20 years due to the ravages of climate change.
Military

Pentagon Report Predicts Collapse of US Military Within 20 Years

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.
Moon

NASA’s Collaborating With Caterpillar on Moon Mining Machines

By Dan Robitzski

Raytheon just delivered a functional laser cannon to the Air Force, designed specifically to take down swarms of hostile drones.
Future Society

The Air Force Just Got a Brutal New Laser Cannon

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook COO insists that the company doesn't run political ads, honest or not, for the money. It's all for the important "political discourse."
Future Society

Facebook: Misleading Political Ads Are Important “Discourse”

By Dan Robitzski

Compared to the casualties caused by the mysterious vape lung illness, taking up smoking at all is still drastically more deadly.
Developments

Idiots Are Starting to Vape, Then Switching to Cigarettes

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientist Andrew McAfee argues that capitalism can prevent food and commodity shortages even in the face of worsened climate change.
Climate Change

MIT Scientist: Capitalism Will Solve Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

California just legalized eating roadkill, but only if people sign into an app to log the crash and get meat salvage permit.
Science & Energy

California Legalizes Eating Roadkill, But Only Through an App

By Dan Robitzski

People in the Phillipines are selling organs on Facebook, supplying an illegal human organ trafficking ring in exchange for some desperately-needed cash.
Developments

People Are Selling Human Organs on Facebook

By Dan Robitzski

Over the past six months, hundreds of endangered species, especially the Helmeted Hornbill, have illegally gone up for sale on Facebook.
Science & Energy

Traffickers Are Using Facebook to Sell Endangered Bird Skulls

By Dan Robitzski

A famous supernova has a cloudy, cotton candy-like appearance. Finally, scientists think they may have an idea of where its bizarre clumps came from.
Science & Energy

Here’s Why the Remains of This Supernova Look Like Cotton Candy

By Dan Robitzski

When deployed its remote-controlled robot tanks in Syria, the Russian military ran into all sorts of problems like delayed signals and inadequate sensors.
Robotics

Russia’s Semi-Autonomous Robot Tanks Were Utterly Useless in Syria

By Dan Robitzski

OpenAI build an AI-powered robot hand that can solve a Rubik's cube more often than not, even when they started messing around with it.
Robotics

Watch a Robot Hand Solve a Rubik’s Cube

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists used stem cells to grow a living mouse embryo in a lab without using any sperm or egg cells whatsoever for the first time.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Grew Living Mouse Embryos Using Only Stem Cells

By Dan Robitzski

As lab-grown mini brains become increasingly complex, some neuroscientists warn that scientists may be creating and killing off sentient life.
Science & Energy

Scientists Worried That Human Brains Grown in Lab May Be Sentient

By Dan Robitzski

An app claiming to use DNA tests to determine whether someone's gay is under fire by the scientists who actually conducted the research it's based on.
DNA

Scientists Call For Removal of App Claiming to Detect Gay DNA

By Dan Robitzski

New research found that the soil on Mars and the Moon could feasibly be used to grow plants, suggesting future space colonists may be able to farm crops.
Off-World

New Research: You Could Grow Crops in Martian Soil

By Dan Robitzski

NASA required SpaceX to undergo review to make sure workers weren't getting high after Elon Musk smoked weed. But, inexcplicably, NASA paid for it.
Science & Energy

NASA Paid $5 Million to Make Sure SpaceX Workers Don’t Smoke Weed

By Dan Robitzski

A small survey shows that most Chinese workers would prefer to be managed by an impartial AI algorithm than a human, in a positive twist on job automation.
Future Society

88 Percent of Chinese Workers Would Prefer a Robot Boss

By Dan Robitzski

An app literally called "How Gay Are You" uses incredibly questionable science to predict whether people are homosexual based on their DNA test results.
DNA

This Startup Says It Can Analyze Your DNA to Detect if You’re Gay

By Dan Robitzski

Contrary to previous reports, hackers are stealing from more ATMs in more countries around the world than ever with jackpotting attacks.
Robots and Machines

This Malware Makes ATMs Spit Out All Their Money

By Dan Robitzski

Old Tesla cars are running into problems: their flash memory is wearing out as a result of excessive data logging and resource-intensive updates.
Tesla

The Flash Memory Is Wearing out in Old Teslas

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Samantha Rolfe says that Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars are more of a "moral catastrophe" than a noble aspiration.
Starship

Astrobiologist: Elon Musk’s Starship Is a “Moral Catastrophe”

By Dan Robitzski

A Yahoo software engineer hacked 6,000 people's accounts in a systematic, far-reaching hunt for nudes and other sexually-explicit media.
Science & Energy

Yahoo Engineer Admits He Hacked User Accounts to Hunt for Nudes

By Dan Robitzski

A tabloid called Express publishes at least one article about killer asteroids almost every single day. Futurism investigates!
Science & Energy

This Awful Tabloid Predicts a Killer Asteroid Almost Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

Rwandan tech company Mara Group just released the first entirely-African-made smartphones, marking the country's progress as a tech hub.
Robots and Machines

This Is the First-Ever Smartphone Made Completely in Africa

By Dan Robitzski

Experts argue the prevalence of "vape lung" in the U.S. comes from the country's tendency to treat public health concerns as moral issues, unlike the UK.
Developments

Here’s How the UK Avoided A “Vape Lung” Epidemic

By Dan Robitzski

Big tech companies have by and large avoided the blackouts in California, as they're powered by more robust transmission lines.
Energy

The CA Blackouts Are Oh-so-Coincidentally Not Affecting Big Tech

By Dan Robitzski

As the International Space Station approaches its inevitable retiring, NASA is encouraging private companies to build their own.
NASA

NASA Has a Plan to Encourage Private Space Stations

By Dan Robitzski

After a public feud, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seem to be on better terms, and they plan on hanging out on Thursday.
NASA

NASA Boss Ends Feud With Elon, Plans SpaceX Factory Tour

By Dan Robitzski

Navy "UFO "scientist Salvatore Cezar Pais has filed another bizarre patent. This time, it's for a compact nuclear fusion reactor.
Energy

Navy Scientist Known For “UFO-Like Tech” Patents Fusion Reactor

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists figured out how to breed hornless bulls by editing their genes, providing a painless alternative to horn-removing procedures.
Science & Energy

Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Breed Hornless Bulls

By Dan Robitzski

Airplane pilots are abandoning their gigs captaining rich folks' private jets for more steady work at commercial airlines.
Future Society

The Mega Rich Are Having Trouble Finding Pilots For Private Jets

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study reveals a link between dads drinking in the months leading up to conception and an increased risk of congenital heart defects in their kids.
Developments

Dads Drinking Before Conception May Cause Heart Defects in Babies

By Dan Robitzski

A woman tried to call for help via a Knightscope security robot covered in "police" markings, just to be told to step aside.
Robotics

Police Robot Ignores Woman Trying to Call Police

By Dan Robitzski

Starting Wednesday, the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric will turn off customers' power to prevent its aging infrastructure from causing wildfires.
Energy

California Is Cutting Power For Nearly a Million Homes

By Dan Robitzski

The AI used by the UK government to review people's passport photos contains built-in biases against people with darker skin. The gov. deployed it anyway.
Artificial Intelligence

The UK Knew Its Passport AI Was Racist — and Used It Anyway

By Dan Robitzski

In case the world collapses and modern gadgets fall into disrepair, a developer is making an operating system to run on salvaged computers.
Future Society

Someone Built an OS for Computers Salvaged After the World Ends

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered 20 more tiny moons orbiting Saturn, meaning the gas giant is the new record holder within the confines of our solar system.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Just Found 20 More Moons Around Saturn

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are learning more and more ways to gene-hack new traits into animals, including genetic alterations that could enhance their intelligence.
Biology

Fringe Idea: Should We Gene-Hack Animals to Make Them Smarter?

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration may investigate Tesla over how it handled its exploding battery issue.
Tesla

A Federal Agency May Investigate Tesla Over Faulty Batteries

By Dan Robitzski

Jesse Karmazin, founder of blood transfusion clinic Ivy Plasma, suggested a former patient faked his own death. He says it must have been a prank caller.
Developments

Did a Life Extension Patient Fake His Own Death?

By Dan Robitzski