More from Dan Robitzski (Page 37)

At the press conference where he called for a flavored vape ban, Trump claimed that children are running home and begging their parents for vapes.
Developments

Trump Claims Kids Are Saying “Mom, I Want to Vape!”

By Dan Robitzski

some people are planning — or at least tweeting about planning — to stock up on their beloved Mango-flavored Juuls and other tropical-flavored vape juices.
Developments

With Looming Ban, People Are Plotting to Hoard Juul Pods

By Dan Robitzski

When StingRays were found in Washington D.C. in 2017, the FBI concluded that Israel was likely trying to spy on Trump and his circle.
Robots and Machines

The FBI Reportedly Thinks Israel Spied on Trump’s Phone

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Away appears to be unusually hungry based on how brightly it's glowing.
Science & Energy

Uh Oh: The Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Is “Getting Hungrier”

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers recorded the gravitational waves given off by the formation of a new black hole.
Science & Energy

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves From Newborn Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A new delivery drone called the Silent Arrow GD-2000 could replace military airdrops, delivering supplies by drones to battlefields at half the cost.
Drones

Gliding Delivery Drones Could Replace Military Airdrops

By Dan Robitzski

Trump told reporters on Wednesday morning that the FDA would soon ban the sale of flavored vape products, saying that they were becoming a problem for kids.
Developments

White House Calls for Ban on Flavored Vape Juice

By Dan Robitzski

In his new book, Microsoft President Brad Smith describes being approached by a Trump adviser who wanted him to spy on other countries.
Future Society

A Trump Adviser Wanted Microsoft to Spy on World Governments

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists are starting fires in space to learn more about fuel combustion. They hope it can make engines more efficient here on Earth.
Science & Energy

NASA Is Starting Fires in Space Just to Watch Them Burn

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, the U.S. government is ill-equipped to defend against and counter high-tech means of warfare like cyberattacks or hypersonic missiles.
Future Society

NSA: The US Is Vulnerable to Cyberattacks, Hypersonic Missiles

By Dan Robitzski

Apple just unveiled the iPhone 11 Pro, but based on the public's response, it didn't run the design past anyone with trypophobia.
Robots and Machines

The New iPhone Design Is Horrifying People With an Obscure Phobia

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI tool that can turns selfies into fully-rendered characters in the video game "Justice Online." Apparently it's been used 1 million times.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Turns Your Selfie Into a 3D Video Game Character

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed in his new book that Taylor Swift threatened to sue the company over "Tay" the Twitter chatbot-turned-Nazi.
Artificial Intelligence

Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened Microsoft Over Racist Chatbot

By Dan Robitzski

As brain-computer interface and neural implant technology improves, the Royal Society argues we may soon be able to communicate telepathically.
Brain Implants

Scientists: Brain Implants Could Essentially Make Us Telepathic

By Dan Robitzski

A new video shows a Tesla driver asleep at the wheel while his car, presumably with Autopilot mode enabled, cruises down the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Sleep

Watch a Tesla Driver Cruise Down the Highway Completely Asleep

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Galactic plans to start selling tickets to space next year. By 2023, it will launch a shuttlefull of passengers every 32 hours.
Off-World

Virgin Galactic’s Plan: Send Tourists to Space Every 32 Hours

By Dan Robitzski

General John Raymnd, head of the newly-formed U.S. Space Command, clarified that he'll seek to first deter space combat but would still be ready to fight.
Space

Head of US Space Command: Space Is “Clearly a Warfighting Domain”

By Dan Robitzski

Shawn Rosenberg, a prominent psychologist at the University of California, Irvine told the crowd at a recent meeting of the International Society of Political Psychologists that "democracy is devouring itself," Politico reports.
Future Society

Prominent Researcher Predicts That Democracy Is Going to Collapse

By Dan Robitzski

A survey of 14 well-known comets traced them all back to the same point in space and time, suggesting that the comets of our solar system are all related.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Birthplace of All Comets Could Explain Life on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

PornWikiLeaks, a website responsible for the doxxing and harassment of thousands of porn performers, just got permanently shut down by Bang Bros.
Future Society

A Porn Company Bought, Promptly Incinerated a Website That Doxxed Performers

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers working on a Tesla battery say their new model could last for up to 1 million miles over 6,000 recharging cycles.
Tesla

Tesla Researcher Says New Battery Could Last One Million Miles

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that we haven't found aliens because they're waiting until their solar systems pass closer to ours before making the journey.
Space

New Research: Aliens May Have Already Visited Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Three more health departments have announced vape-related deaths, bringing the total death tally of the mysterious lung disease up to five people.
Developments

Terrifying Vape Disease Has Now Killed Five People

By Dan Robitzski

In areas where access to abortion is limited, Google Maps sometimes directs people looking for clinics to anti-abortion facilities instead.
Science & Energy

Google Is Still Misleading People Trying to Find Abortion Clinics

By Dan Robitzski

A new Twitter account is collecting (legal, consensual) dick pics to test out a filter that can automatically delete unsolicited nudes.
Artificial Intelligence

This Researcher Is Gathering Dick Pics to Test Penis-Detecting AI

By Dan Robitzski

The Boknis Eck Observatory, an underwater research facility that monitored environmental conditions off the coast of Germany, has vanished without a trace.
Science & Energy

An Underwater Research Station Has Vanished Without a Trace

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday afternoon, India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft will attempt to land on the Moon. If it works, India will be the fourth country to ever do so.
Science & Energy

India Is About to Attempt a Moon Landing

By Dan Robitzski

The New York City government just sued T-Mobile and its stores over fraudulent and predatory sales practices, including selling used phones as new.
Robots and Machines

T-Mobile Accused of Selling Used Phones and Saying They’re New

By Dan Robitzski

A new attempt to explain the mysterious giant bubbles that sandwich our galaxy fell short; astronomers couldn't reconcile the data with any hypotheses.
Science & Energy

Scientists Baffled by Giant Bubbles Sandwiching Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Companies like Postmates that have launched fleets of delivery robots still depend on human operators to occasionally grab the wheel.
Drones

Why a Former Military Drone Pilot Now Steers Burrito Delivery Bots

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists determined which personality traits and other factors are most closely associated with internet gaming disorder.
Health & Medicine

Neurotic, Introverted Men Have a Higher Risk of Gaming Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

GPS trackers intended to help parents keep an eye on their kids are particularly vulnerable to hackers. Over 600,000 devices could be easily compromised.
Robots and Machines

Parents Are Giving Kids GPS Trackers That Can Be Hacked by Creeps

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental text adventure game is generated in real-time by artificial intelligence, making for a fascinating, disjointed journey.
Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Network Dreams up This Text Adventure Game as You Play

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just attached its new semi-autonomous helicopter drone to the rover it's sending to Mars next year. Pending a few more tests, it should be ready to go.
Self-Driving Vehicles

NASA Installs Autonomous Mini-Helicopter on Its Next Mars Rover

By Dan Robitzski

New artificial intelligence and virtual reality tools are making it easier for doctors and their patients to fit new prosthetic limbs.
Virtual Reality

Doctors Are Using AI and VR to Improve People’s Prosthetic Limbs

By Dan Robitzski

A newly proposed type of space elevator called the Spaceline could theoretically be built out of materials that exist today, hinting at easier space travel.
Moon

These Researchers Want to Run a Cable From the Earth to the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Johns Hopkins announced a new privately-funded research center to develop psychedelics-based medical treatments for conditions like depression and PTSD.
Health & Medicine

The First Center for Psychedelics Research is Opening in the US

By Dan Robitzski

The doctor behind the young blood transfusion clinic Ambrosia is back with a mysterious new venture — a transfusion clinic called Ivy Plasma.
RX and Medicine

Doctor Behind Failed “Anti-Aging” Blood Clinic Tries Again

By Dan Robitzski

A non-profit group called Privacy International found that mental health-focused websites in Europe are selling user data to third-party advertisers.
Data Privacy

Mental Health Sites Sell Your Psychological Data to Advertisers

By Dan Robitzski

A software company is making construction robots that learn to excavate and assemble structures by imitating human movements and may someday work in space.
Robotics

Robots Could Build Martian Settlements by Imitating Humans on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is working on a system called Orville that would let people pay for things by waving their hands in front of a scanner.
Future Society

Amazon Wants You to Pay for Things With Your Handprint

By Dan Robitzski

A sociological research survey of AI chatbots' capabilities found that they could empathize with each other and tell jokes among themselves.
Artificial Intelligence

Surprise Research: AIs Can “Sympathize With Each Other”

By Dan Robitzski

Apple was just granted three new patents for the Apple Watch, one of which involves taking an uncomfortably-close look at the skin on your wrist.
Robots and Machines

Instead of Fingerprints, Future Apple Watches May Scan Your Wrist

By Dan Robitzski

Using a deepfake imitating the voice of its parent company's CEO, a scammer convinced an energy executive to transfer $243,000 to a third-party account.
Artificial Intelligence

A Scammer Reportedly Used a Deepfake to Steal $243,000

By Dan Robitzski

The Gateway Foundation wants to build a luxury orbital space hotel based on plans drawn up by NAzi scientist Wernher von Braun in the 1950s.
Off-World

A Startup Wants to Launch a Space Hotel Named After a Nazi

By Dan Robitzski

Orion Span's proposed space hotel, the Aurora Space Station, might be ready within two years. But its cost jumped $3 million since April.
Off-World

Upcoming Space Hotel to Be “Like a Small Cruise Ship”

By Dan Robitzski

Shortly after SpaceX's Starhopper completed its test launch last week, Elon Musk speculated that the next iteration would be twice as wide.
Starship

Elon Musk: “Next Gen” Craft Could Be Twice the Size of Starship

By Dan Robitzski

A new gel could someday help people regrow tooth enamel, potentially erasing tooth decay and replacing artificial fillings.
Developments

Scientists Figured out How to Regrow Teeth

By Dan Robitzski

Several national governments are using country-wide internet shutoffs and censorship to squash internal dissent and censor their critics.
Future Society

Governments Are Shutting off the Internet to Squash Dissent

By Dan Robitzski

Fitbit partnered with Singapore to provide free fitness trackers to people in exchange for a monthly fee and access to their health data.
Future Society

Fitbit Will Provide Free Smartwatches in Singapore

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon's AI intelligence chief sees deepfake technology as a serious threat to democracy. He called on the government to develop better safeguards.
Artificial Intelligence

Pentagon’s AI Director Calls for Stronger Deepfake Protections

By Dan Robitzski

People seem to love knocking over and attacking robots, especially those security robots, which is a totally cool and good thing to do, writes Wired.
Robots and Machines

Wired: It’s Time for War Between Humanity and Machines

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk believes that we will have a hard time communicating with futuristic AI because it will process information far more rapidly than we do.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: We Communicate Too Slowly for Future AI to Understand

By Dan Robitzski

A massive international study debunked the long-standing myth of a so-called "gay gene." The genetic links to sexual orientation are far more complex.
Biology

Huge Study Conclusively Debunks the “Gay Gene” Myth

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook scientists built a minecraft-playing AI assistant that they hope will learn to understand natural language as it performs tasks.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Research is Using Minecraft to Train AI. Here’s Why.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that lab-grown mini-brains on the International Space Station are giving off brain waves, potentially posing a new ethical dilemma.
Biology

Scientists Grew Tiny Human Brains and Hooked Them up to Robots

By Dan Robitzski

After finding that simulated zero gravity killed off cancer cells, a team of doctors wants to send samples up to the International Space Station.
Cancer

Doctors to Test Fringe Theory That Zero Gravity Kills Cancer Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Former Google manager Jennifer Blakely shared her story of how the company's Chief Legal Officer abandoned and abused her after they had a child.
Future Society

Google Exec Accused of Fathering, Abandoning Baby With Employee

By Dan Robitzski

NASA finally pieced together the James Webb Space Telescope, connecting the telescope piece with the spacecraft piece. Now it just needs to get it in orbit.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Finally Assembled The James Webb Space Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they've detected a bizarre black hole that, at 100 times the mass of our sun, is twice the theoretical size limit.
Science & Energy

Spotted: A Black Hole That Shouldn’t Be Physically Possible

By Dan Robitzski

The U.K. has new surveillance CCTV cameras that can read people's lips, and privacy-focused government watchdogs are not happy about it.
Future Society

UK Watchdog Is Worried Government Will Deploy Lip-Reading CCTVs

By Dan Robitzski

A new system makes it easier than ever for people to generate believable deepfakes. The AI tool doesn't require training and can swap faces in real-time.
Artificial Intelligence

New System Makes It Troublingly Easy to Create Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake finally answers the age old question: What would it look like if Joe Rogan played Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" films?
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used a Deepfake to Turn Dr. Evil Into Joe Rogan

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon is considering launching a network of satellites that would be able to identify and track any acts of aggression in outer space.
Military

The Pentagon Wants Sentinel Satellites to Deter Space Warfare

By Dan Robitzski