More from Dan Robitzski (Page 40)

Neural nets tasked with interpreting then recreating a "Star Wars" duel churned out a nightmarish scene where Luke Skywalker holds a baseball bat and surfs.
Artificial Intelligence

According to a Neural Network, Luke Skywalker Is a Surfing Baseball Player

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's former head of security wants to build an "internet observatory" to monitor harassment. The idea is to build out the tool for academics to use.
Future Society

Stanford Built an “Internet Observatory” to Monitor Abuse

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force successfully launched the largest satellite into space yet. It will spend the next year learning about dangerous cosmic radiation.
Science & Energy

The US Air Force Launched the Largest Uncrewed Structure in Space

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bragged that his company could reach the Moon within two years. But NASA CFO Jeff DeWit isn't buying it.
Moon

NASA Official: SpaceX’s Moon Chances Are “Slim”

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla lost $408 million this fiscal quarter, bringing their year-to-date losses up to $1 billion. It's not a good sign for the scrappy automaker.
Tesla

Tesla Has Already Lost $1 Billion This Year

By Dan Robitzski

Chris Wetherell, the guy who built Twitter's "retweet button" compared his work to handing an infant a loaded gun and setting them loose.
Future Society

The Guy Who Invented the Retweet Is Filled With Regret

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists created a liquid magnet. But they're still figuring out how the magnet, created by accident, works.
Science & Energy

Scientists Accidentally Created a Liquid Magnet

By Dan Robitzski

A letter signed by 24 prominent scientists called on the U.N. to declare wartime destruction of the environment a war crime.
Environment

Scientists: Harming the Environment Should Be a War Crime

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just announced a recall of Allergan breast implants, linking the manufacturer to hundreds of cases of a rare cancer.
Cancer

Most People With This Rare Cancer Got a Specific Breast Implant

By Dan Robitzski

The gold, silver, and bronze found in Olympic medals given out during the 2020 Tokyo Games was extracted from old smartphones and other electronics.
Robots and Machines

2020 Olympic Medals Will Be Made Out of Recycled Smartphones

By Dan Robitzski

A new experiment used VR to trick people's brains into thinking they inhabited spider or bat bodies. People reported feeling like the body was theirs.
Virtual Reality

Bizarre New VR Makes People Feel Like They’re Spiders

By Dan Robitzski

Silicon Valley startup Bumblebee Spaces suspends furniture from the ceiling to make tiny, espensive apartments feel more spacious.
Future Society

Dystopian Startup Wants to Hang Your Furniture From The Ceiling

By Dan Robitzski

San Francisco may provide safe "housing" in the form of a parking lot for people who live inside their vehicles and need to avoid tickets and fines.
Future Society

San Francisco Plans “Safe” Parking for People Living in Vehicles

By Dan Robitzski

A decade after Google was caught wiretapping unencrypted WiFi networks with its Street View cars, a court ordered the stolen data deleted.
Data Privacy

Google to Delete Private Data Captured by Street View Cars

By Dan Robitzski

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues that scientists should be expected to better justify all of the billions of dollars their experiments cost.
Physics

Physicist: Maybe We Don’t Need an Expensive New Collider

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is already inundated with scam posts for its yet-unreleased cryptocurrency, Libra. It's a bad sign for a company trying to earn public trust.
Blockchain

Facebook Is Having Trouble Fighting Scams About Its Own Altcoin

By Dan Robitzski

The Human Brain Project, which ten years ago promised to model an entire human brain, failed to deliver. Scientists suspect it was doomed from the start.
Science & Energy

This Attempt to Simulate the Human Brain Fell Amazingly Flat

By Dan Robitzski

A team of hackers stole 7.5 terabytes of information from a company working for Russian intelligence, revealing a number of troubling projects.
Science & Energy

A Russian Intelligence Contractor Just Got Hacked

By Dan Robitzski

Leaked NYPD documents reveal the police department's strategy for building public trust through funny social media posts.
Future Society

Leaked NYPD Documents Instruct Cops to Be Funny Online

By Dan Robitzski

Juul Labs CEO Kevin Burns just issued a sort of apology for how many vaping teens have become addicted to nicotine by using his company's product.
Health & Medicine

Juul CEO: “I’m Sorry” for Teen Vaping Epidemic

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft just invested $1 billion into OpenAI, which will now try to develop artificial general intelligence for Microsoft's cloud services.
OpenAI

Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in Elon Musk-Founded OpenAI

By Dan Robitzski

A Puerto Rican startup called Instarz plans on building a self-assembling, self-sustaining Moon habitat that can support eight astronauts for a year.
Moon

Puerto Rican Startup Plans to Launch Self-Sustaining Moon Habitat

By Dan Robitzski

Neither the government nor private tech companies have taken steps to protect the 2020 presidential election from being manipulated.
Hacking

Congressman: The 2020 Election Is Not Safe From Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Henk Rogers wants to build a lunar spaceport so that all the billionaires building shiny new rockets actually have someplace to land.
Science & Energy

The Guy Who Popularized “Tetris” Wants to Build a Lunar Spaceport

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese space station Tiangong-2 incinerated as planned during its scheduled decommissioning on Friday. Now there's video footage of the event.
Science & Energy

Watch a Chinese Space Station Burn up in Earth’s Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

A new smart glove makes VR more immersive by making the virtual objects people touch feel as though they're really there.
Science & Energy

Smart Glove Lets You Grip Virtual Objects

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the Earth's core and mantle have been swapping tungsten and hafnium for the last 2.5 billion years.
Science & Energy

The Earth’s Core Is Leaking, Baffling Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

A new lightweight knee brace generates electricity as people walk around, potentially charging medical devices or wearables.
Energy

Weird Gadget Uses Your Knee Motion to Charge Your Phone

By Dan Robitzski

Just one inning into the "robot umpire" Trackman's major league debut, a human coach decided to pick a fight and got ejected from the game.
Robotics

Baseball Coach Ejected for Fighting With Robot Umpire

By Dan Robitzski

A major conservation organization just added over 7,000 more species to its endangered "Red List." The next stop on the list is extinction.
Climate Change

Climate Change Poised to Eradicate Over 7,000 More Species

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese city Guangzhou gave 17,000 GPS-tracking wristwatches to elementary schoolchildren. The watches let parents monitor what their kids are up to.
Future Society

China Gives GPS-Tracking Wristwatches to 17,000 Kids

By Dan Robitzski

China is about to decommission its Tiangong-2 space station by rocketing it toward a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean dubbed the "spacecraft cemetery."
Science & Energy

China’s Tiangong-2 Space Station Will Fall Out of the Sky Friday

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA assembled a team called Squad X that uses robots to scout out a battlefield before human soldiers engage in combat.
Robotics

DARPA’s “Squad X” Teams Up Soldiers With Scout Robots

By Dan Robitzski

The upcoming "Cats" movie will use something called "digital fur technology" to turn stars like Taylor Swift into giant cats.
Science & Energy

“Digital Fur Technology” Will Turn Taylor Swift Into a Cat

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that tens of thousands of porn sites automatically monitor your, uh, behavior, and send the data to companies like Facebook and Google.
Science & Energy

Facebook And Google Know All Your Kinks

By Dan Robitzski

Oakland, California's city council just voted unanimously to ban all municipal uses of facial recognition tech within its borders.
Future Society

The City of Oakland Votes to Ban Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's Neuralink announced that it's almost ready for human experimentation. People on Twitter want to offer up their brains.
Elon Musk

People Are Begging Elon Musk to Drill Holes in Their Skulls

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics is back in the news promising that it will start mass-producing and selling its SpotMini robot soon, but the details keep shifting.
Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Says It’ll Sell Robots, But Won’t Give Any Details

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system tracks people's tiny, involuntary eye movements to identify them, sort of like an ocular fingerprint scanner.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Identifies People by Their Minuscule Eye Movements

By Dan Robitzski

As rockets lower themselves to the lunar surface, they kick up dangerous, bullet-like storms of rocks and dust. If unaddressed, they could lead to conflict.
Future Society

Rockets Causing Lunar Dust Storms Could Spark International War

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA confirmed that asteroid 2006 QV89 will not collide with Earth later this year. Scientists don't know where it is, but it isn't on its way here.
Science & Energy

Good News: That Nearby Asteroid Won’t Obliterate Us This Year

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Throwflame is about to start selling a $1,500 fully-functional flamethrower attachment for drones on Thursday.
Drones

Get Ready: “Flamethrower Drones” Are About to Go on Sale

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's TESS satellite analyzed its first supernova, inadvertently revealing that astronomers made some wrong assumptions about the explosions.
Science & Energy

NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite Discovers Mysterious Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

Hundreds of protesters in Hawaii blocked the start of construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope observatory, which would be built over cultural landmarks.
Future Society

Native Hawaiians Protest at New Observatory’s Construction Site

By Dan Robitzski

A new "flying saucer" drone design uses half the propellers of a typical quadrotor drone, letting it fly for twice as long.
Drones

A “Flying Saucer” Design Lets Drones Fly Twice as Long

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers just saw for the first time a gas giant planet actively forming new moons out of a cloud of gas and dust.
Science & Energy

Scientists Spot Distant Gas Giant Still Forming New Moons

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a Russian nuclear sub caught fire, killing 14. Now, a Russian Navy official says that the deceased crew averted a "planetary catastrophe."
Nuclear Fusion

Russia: Dead Nuclear Sub Somehow Avoided “Planetary Catastrophe”

By Dan Robitzski

An attempt to reconcile the discrepancy among Hubble Constant calculations only complicated the matter, raising questions about our models of the universe.
Physics

New Hubble Data Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new survey, American and British kids would much rather become YouTubers than astronauts, while the opposite is true in China.
Future Society

Astronauts Are Out. American Kids Would Rather Be YouTubers.

By Dan Robitzski

It may be possible to terraform Mars by blanketing future space farms with a thin layer of aerogel that blocks radiation and heats the ground.
Science & Energy

A Thin Layer of Aerogel Could Make Martian Farming Possible

By Dan Robitzski

Englands Department for Transport announced that every new home needs to have an electric car charging port as part of a push to make EVs more accessible.
Advanced Transport

UK Releases Plan to Put Electric Car Chargers in All New Homes

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists managed to capture photographic evidence that two photons were linked by quantum entanglement.
Physics

Scientists Capture First-Ever Image of Quantum Entanglement

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who work on extraterrestrial-seeking projects like SETI report a stigma within science that gets their work dismissed and funding killed.
Science & Energy

Scientists Are Terrified of SETI Research

By Dan Robitzski

During a speech at the National Conservatism conference, Peter Thiel called for the CIA and FBI to investigate Google's "seemingly treasonous" ties with China.
Future Society

Peter Thiel: Investigate Google For “Treasonous” Ties With China

By Dan Robitzski

A leaked IRS training document reveals how the agency may begin subpoenaing tech companies to find people's undisclosed cryptocurrency wallets.
Cryptocurrency

The IRS Is Coming for Your Secret Crypto Stash

By Dan Robitzski

225 mayors from across the United States signed a resolution to stop paying ransomware hackers who target their cities' digital infrastructure.
Bitcoin

225 US Mayors Agree to Stop Paying Ransomware Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

A new therapy targeting the Cngb1 gene restored eyesight and regular neural connections between the eye and brain of experimental mice.
Health & Medicine

Gene Therapy Restores Vision in Blind Mice

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Hayabusa-2, the Japanese space probe that landed on then bombed and asteroid, once more touched down to collect samples and take pictures.
Space

Japanese Probe Returns to Site of Asteroid Bombing, Takes Pics

By Dan Robitzski

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.
Physics

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

By Dan Robitzski

News recently broke about worms that had allegedly been frozen in Arctic permafrost for 40,000 years. It turns out they're probably a lot younger.
Biology

That Story About the Ancient Frozen Worms Might Be Bologna

By Dan Robitzski

Protests broke out at an Amazon AWS Summit in New York City on Thursday. Tech workers and immigration activists demanded the company stop helping ICE.
Future Society

Protesters Interrupt Amazon Event to Decry Its Work With ICE

By Dan Robitzski

As the world continues to heat up from climate change, tens of thousands of important archaeological sites throughout the Arctic will be destroyed.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Destroying Greenland’s Historic Viking Towns

By Dan Robitzski

The diagnostic tools on experimental fusion reactors are too fragile for industrial-scale facilities. A new technique may be able to replace them.
Energy

New Tool Helps Contain Molten Plasma in Fusion Reactors

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.
Physics

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

By Dan Robitzski