More from Dan Robitzski (Page 39)

AI built to detect hate speech online, including a widely-used tool built by Google, tends to flag tweets written by black people as toxic more often.

Google’s Hate Speech-Detecting AI is Biased Against Black People

By Dan Robitzski

A cybersecurity expert found that smart speakers and laptops could be controlled by hackers to blast out inaudible, deafening frequencies of sound.

Robots and Machines

Hackers Can Hijack Your Speakers to Play Deafening Noises

By Dan Robitzski

If simulation theory is real, we should stop trying to prove it lest our universe get rebooted or unplugged, writes philosopher Preston Greene

Simulation Theory “May Cause the Annihilation of our Universe.”

By Dan Robitzski

A leaked executive order draft would put Facebook and Twitter social media content moderation under the purview of the FCC to stamp out perceived bias.

Leaked Executive Order Would Let US Gov Control Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Radioactive dust from an ancient supernova was just found buried in Antarctica, helping scientists better understand what's outside our solar system.

Science & Energy

Radioactive Dust From an Ancient Supernova Is Buried in Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

The company behind instant ramen packets are about to launch nutrient-rich noodles that can fully satisfy people's nutritional requirements.

Health & Medicine

Soylent-Like Ramen Packet Has Every Nutrient Needed to Survive

By Dan Robitzski

In three years, the Fukushima nuclear power plant will run out of space to store contaminated water, pushing officials to quicjly assemble a new plan.

In Three Years, Fukushima Could Overflow With Radioactive Water

By Dan Robitzski

An investigation reveals that schoolchildren in China are working illegal hours to manufacture Amazon Echo products as part of a school internship.

Robots and Machines

Foxconn Used Child Labor to Manufacture Amazon Alexa Gadgets

By Dan Robitzski

While the recent tardigrade spill on the Moon is bad news, it may not be the first time the resilient little creatures made their way to the lunar surface.

Science & Energy

Hipster Asteroids Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon Before It Was Cool

By Dan Robitzski

Science & Energy

Scientists Brewed Vodka With Grain From Chernobyl

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that dark matter was already there before the Big Bang occurred, altering our understanding of the history of the universe.

Science & Energy

New Research: There May Have Been Dark Matter Before Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

When journalist Carey Gillam investigated the link between Monsanto weedkillers and cancer, the company worked with Google to discredit her work.

Report: Monsanto Paid Google to Bury Unfavorable News

By Dan Robitzski

We Took a Ride on NYC’s First Self-Driving Shuttle

Self-Driving Vehicles

We Took a Ride on NYC’s First Self-Driving Shuttle

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers just found the remains of a dead star, one of the oldest in the universe, buried inside of another still-living red giant.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Found a Dead Star Lodged Inside Another Star

By Dan Robitzski

AlterEgo lets people silently communicate with a digital assistant that gives them information, translates foreign language, or interacts with smart tech.

Robots and Machines

This Gadget Puts a Digital Assistant Inside Your Head

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built a robot tail called Arque that could help people balance, lift heavy loads, or at least make VR games more immersive.

Prosthetics and Devices

Amazing Robot Tail Helps You Balance

By Dan Robitzski

Uber and Lyft funded a traffic study that showed that ride-hailing apps are responsible for a big chunk of traffic in major cities.

Advanced Transport

Ride-Hailing Apps Make Traffic Worse — And Now They’re Admitting It

By Dan Robitzski

If global temperatures reach two degrees Celsius about pre-industrial levels, 30,000 additional people will die in Chinese cities every year.

A Half-Degree Temperature Rise Will Kill 30,000 in China Per Year

By Dan Robitzski

Japan is putting nearly $1 billion into moonshot projects like cyborg tech, human hibernation, and recycling its industrial waste.

Japan Pledges $900 Million to Cyborg, Human Hibernation Research

By Dan Robitzski

After this weekend's mass shooting in Texas, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare decided to cancel its service to the online forum 8chan.

Service Providers Shut Down 8Chan Over Mass Shooters’ Manifestos

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that cosmic radiation is even more dangerous than we thought. Mice exposed to Mars-journey levels developed dementia-like symptoms.

Science & Energy

Mars-Journey Levels of Radiation Seriously Damaged Mouse Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Financial aggregation services are giving hackers everything they need to access and empty wealthy targets' bank accounts.

Science & Energy

Hackers Are Cracking Online Banking Sites to Steal Your Cash

By Dan Robitzski

In response to two mass shootings, Trump says social media companies should spot mass shooters before they commit and violent crimes.

Trump: Social Media Companies Should Spot Mass Shooters in Advance

By Dan Robitzski

A new CGI system can create a fully-rendered video game character based on a performer's motion capture data in real time.

Robots and Machines

Amazing Tech Turns You Into a CGI Character In Real Time

By Dan Robitzski

Fed up with the challenges of living with diabetes, a biohacker built himself an artificial pancreas to automatically manage his insulin pump.

Prosthetics and Devices

How This Engineer Hacked Together His Own “Artificial Pancreas”

By Dan Robitzski

Teens and young adults are finding themselves in the hospital with severe respiratory illnesses caused by vaping, even when they're otherwise healthy.

Health Officials Blame Vaping for “Severe Respiratory Illnesses”

By Dan Robitzski

A deepfake answers the age-old question: "What would it look like if Keanu Reeves had the body of a child actor singing in an episode of 'Sesame Street?'"

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Deepfaked Keanu Reeves Into “Sesame Street”

By Dan Robitzski

Now there's another lawsuit filed against Tesla after a driver died behind the wheel of an "Autopilot"-enabled car that crashed.

Tesla Slammed by Another Autopilot Crash Lawsuit

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, AI algorithms can't be granted patents. The restriction originally served as a worker protection, but now it's creating a problem for engineers.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Trying to List AI as the Inventor on a New Patent

By Dan Robitzski

With new contracts awarded to weapons developers, the Army is pushing for new laser weapons capable of destroying drones and vehicles.

US Army Doubles Down on Directed Energy Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon has 25 mass surveillance balloons that can monitor and track individual vehicles as they travel across states.

The Pentagon Is Launching Mass Surveillance Balloons Over America

By Dan Robitzski

In newly released documents, the FBI announced that Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theorists pose a domestic terrorism threat.

FBI: Conspiracy Theorists Are a Domestic Terrorism Threat

By Dan Robitzski

Before his controversial gene-hacking research was condemned, He Jiankui wanted to open a designer baby clinic in China or Thailand.

Health & Medicine

That “CRISPR Baby” Scientist Wanted to Open a Designer Baby Clinic

By Dan Robitzski

Before we make first contact with any aliens out there, we should figure out whether we're willing to kill them to further our scientific knowledge.

Scientist: We Should Be Prepared to Kill Aliens

By Dan Robitzski

A new crypto platform called SpankPay wants to become the go-to payment service for porn and adult entertainment, circumventing more hostile financiers.

Science & Energy

Finally, Porn Is on the Blockchain

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists built a "mini-sun" that's helping them study solar winds and why the Sun occasionally ejects blasts of plasma into space.

Scientists Built a Ball of Plasma They Call a “Mini-Sun”

By Dan Robitzski

Andrew Yang says it's too late to stop some of the effects of climate change, and we should all migrate uphill to avoid floods.

Yang’s Climate Plan: “Start Moving Our People to Higher Ground”

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental HIV vaccine that showed promise in past studies is about to be tested on thousands of people from around the world.

Health & Medicine

Thousands of People Are About to Test an HIV Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

Jailed sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein reportedly met with prominent scientists for years to discuss his interest in eugenics and other fringe sciences.

Science & Energy

Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein Obsessed With Eugenics, Cryogenics

By Dan Robitzski

An experiment called BioRock is figuring out whether bacteria could turn space rocks into farmable soil for future off-world settlements.

Astronomers Want to Use Bacteria to Mine Space Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

For the last nine years, the U.S. government has been working on a top-secret military artificial intelligence "brain" platform called "Sentient."

Artificial Intelligence

The Military Secretly Built An “Artificial Brain” Called Sentient

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon is working on a laser that can beam human speech directly into people's brains, tech that could warn intruders as they approach military bases.

Robots and Machines

Pentagon: New Laser Tech Can Make People Hear Voice Commands

By Dan Robitzski

When police departments partner with Amazon's smart doorbell company, Ring, the company gets control over all statements to the press or public.

Amazon Is Feeding Talking Points About Its Spy Doorbell to Police

By Dan Robitzski

A Bulgarian hacker took control of the country's tax agency and also hijacked the sprinkler system outside of Parliament.

Hackers Seize Control of Bulgarian Tax Agency, Sprinkler System

By Dan Robitzski

New evidence suggests that Mars may have had a liquid ocean on its surface, and that meteor impacts caused a planet-sized tsunamis.

Science & Energy

Ancient Meteor Strike Deluged Mars With Planet-Scale Tsunami

By Dan Robitzski

More and more funeral homes are livestreaming services, giving people a chance to tune in if they couldn't travel or revisit moments they couldn't process.

People Are Livestreaming Funerals

By Dan Robitzski

A rare, brain-swelling deadly virus spread via mosquitoes was just spotted in Orange County, Florida, prompting public advisories warning to avoid bites.

Mosquitoes in Florida Are Spreading a Deadly Brain Virus

By Dan Robitzski

There's no short supply of aspirational, bold claims about how we'll colonize Mars. Unfortunately, none of them are realistic.

Reality Check: It Would Take Thousands Of Years To Colonize Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, money is pouring into the drinkable weed industry, despite ever-changing regulations and a seemingly-nonexistant consumer base for weed drinks.

Alcohol Companies Want to Make Disgusting Weed Drinks

By Dan Robitzski

A new bill seeks to ban addictive website and social media features like autoplaying videos, endlessly-scrolling timelines, and other deceptive designs.

Congress May Ban “Addictive” Website Features Like Autoplay Videos

By Dan Robitzski

The massive radiation leak that plumed over Eastern Europe in 2017 was just definitively traced back to a Russian nuclear facility.

Did Russia Cover Up a Radiation Leak 100x Worse Than Fukushima?

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found out that tiny flaws in circuitry that disrupt the flow of electricity can act as a digital fingerprint for electronic devices.

Science & Energy

New Research: Every Transistor Has a “Unique Quantum Fingerprint”

By Dan Robitzski

A new deep-sea robot called Aquanaut can "transform" between being an autonomous submarine and a mermaid-like humanoid robot.

A New Deep-Sea Robot Can Shape-Shift Into an Autonomous Submarine

By Dan Robitzski

IBM just announced that it was making three of its artificial intelligence projects designed to help doctors and cancer researchers open-source.

Artificial Intelligence

IBM Just Made its Cancer-Fighting AI Projects Open-Source

By Dan Robitzski

China recently published a white paper outlining its nuclear strategy, which describes how it will never strike first or nuke non-nuclear powers.

China Promises to Never Use Nukes — Unless Another Country Does First

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are closer than ever to a cure for baldness, thanks to cloned stem cells and 3D-printed scaffolding that could let new hairs take root.

Health & Medicine

Baldness Could Soon Be Cured for Real — if You’re Rich

By Dan Robitzski

The Iranian government just gave its approval to crypto mining, but only if people get the right clearance and stay on top of their taxes.

Iran Says You Can Mine — but Not Spend — Crypto

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists just built a new plasma-powered thruster that could vastly improve the capabilities of a small satellite conducting research in space.

Science & Energy

Princeton Unveils Plasma-Powered Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

The IRS announced that it's sending out 10,000 letters to warn taxpayers that they may owe back taxes for their cryptocurrency holdings.

The IRS Is Sending Warning Letters Over Cryptocurrency Back Taxes

By Dan Robitzski

Some galaxies called blue nuggets are unusually tiny but house gargantuan black holes. Astronomers finally think they know why.

Science & Energy

Scientists Unraveled Why Some Tiny Galaxies Have Huge Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Chris Hughes, one of the guys responsible for turning Facebook into an all-powerful monopoly, met with federal regulators to say Facebook is a too big.

Facebook Cofounder: Please Break up Facebook

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon cut a confidential deal with a police force to push its doorbell camera, Ring, onto the local community in exchange for surveillance tech.

Florida Police Cut a Secret Deal to Promote Amazon’s Ring Cameras

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found evidence that decade-long "megadroughts" devastated native societies in the Southwest. And another megadrought is on the way.

Research: Decade-Long “Megadrought” Could Roast American Southwest

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists claim to have linked smartphone geotagging data with personality traits in a bid to create better targeted advertisements.

Robots and Machines

Researchers Can Predict Your Personality by Tracking Your Phone

By Dan Robitzski

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