More from Dan Robitzski (Page 41)

A haptic feedback vest could help working dogs perform their jobs better than before by issuing specific commands through controlled vibrations.

A Vibrating Haptic Feedback Vest Could “Steer” Rescue Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

Clergy within the Russian Orthodox Church want to end the practice of blessing Russia's nuclear weapons, but others are happy to frame nukes as holy.

The Russian Orthodox Church May Stop Blessing Nuclear Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Impossible Foods, the fake meat company behind the plant-based Impossible Burger, is now working on a recipe for plant-based fish meat.

Science & Energy

Impossible Foods Is Trying to Make Fake Fish Now

By Dan Robitzski

A new breathalyzer called the Keyto can help people on the keto diet track how well they're doing at cutting carbs out of their diets.

Health & Medicine

A $100 Breathalyzer Can Tell if You’re Sneaking Carbs

By Dan Robitzski

To train more handy robots, scientists built "adversarial objects" — small, die-like figures that are as difficult to grasp as possible.

Engineers Build “Adversarial Objects” to Confuse Grabby Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon and Microsoft are bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract for a wartime cloud computing system, but lawsuits over favoritism slowed the process.

Amazon and Microsoft Want to Build A “War Cloud” for the Military

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who were melting permafrost ice to look for ancient microbes were surprised to see a pile of 41,000 year-old worms wake up and wiggle around.

Scientists Melted Ancient Ice and a Long-Dead Worm Wriggled Out

By Dan Robitzski

As NASA scrambles to get ready for Artemis, its upcoming crewed mission to the Moon slated for 2024, China may take the lead.

Bad News, Astronauts: NASA Probably Won’t Reach Moon by 2024

By Dan Robitzski

IBM recently patented a new kind of smartwatch that unfolds eight times to form a full-sized touchscreen wearable tablet.

IBM Patented a Goofy-Looking Watch That Folds Into a Tablet

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just turned off a heater on the Voyager 2 space probe in order to conserve dwindling energy supplies as the spacecraft explores interstellar space.

The Voyager Probes Are Running Low on Power

By Dan Robitzski

When the ESA launches LISA, a constellation of gravitational wave-detecting satellites, it will likely be able to spot new exoplanets across the galaxy.

Science & Energy

Gravitational Wave Detector May Find Exoplanets in Nearby Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

Next year, astronauts on the International Space Station will attempt to bake cookies in space. It's part PR stunt, part lesson in zero-g manufacturing.

Science & Energy

Astronauts Are Planning to Bake Cookies on the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Chameleon Theory provides an alternative explanation for galaxy formation and the universe's expansion from Einstein's General Relativity.

New “Chameleon Theory” Could Explain Dark Energy, How Galaxies Formed

By Dan Robitzski

A robot arm called the Jaco can attach to the wheelchairs of people with limited upper mobility and help them better manage everyday tasks.

This Robot Arm Can Help Wheelchair Users Drink Coffee, Open Doors

By Dan Robitzski

As LightSail 2 orbits Earth and explores the cosmos, people back home can track the progress of the solar sail and monitor its status through a new website.

A New Website Tracks the Just-Launched Solar Sail Spaceship

By Dan Robitzski

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.

Space Rocks Near Neptune Could Reveal the Solar System’s Origins

By Dan Robitzski

A third CRISPR baby was expected to be due in late June or early July, but the Chinese government is keeping quiet about the gene-hacking controversy.

We May Never Know When That Third CRISPR Baby Is Born

By Dan Robitzski

AI tools like GROVER are very good at flooding the internet with fake news and spam. The solution may come in the form of smarter Google filters.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using “Massive Tsunami” of Fake News

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have detected over ten radio bursts from distant galaxies in the last week. The sudden frequency could help us figure out what's causing them.

Science & Energy

Possible Alien Radio Signals Way More Common Than Believed

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon wants its own dedicated space station in orbit around the Earth for both scientific research and military operations.

The Pentagon Wants Its Own Orbital Space Station, Like a Death Star, But Not, Okay?

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist argued that more dogs should be sent to space, both to serve as companions but also to improve microbiome diversity in orbit.

Scientists Are Calling for More Dogs in Space

By Dan Robitzski

If our climate crisis continues unchecked, the global poor will face the greatest burden while the rich pay to escape the problem altogether.

“Climate Apartheid” Is Imminent. Only the Rich Will Survive.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.

Astronomers Traced a Mysterious Radio Burst to a Distant Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA announced a new contest in which contestants are asked to come up with a design for a space garden capable of growing crops.

New NASA Contest Seeks Way to Grow a Space Garden

By Dan Robitzski

Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.

Facial recognition

Chinese Casinos Use AI, Facial Recognition to Spot Suckers

By Dan Robitzski

New lab-grown mini brains are the most advanced yet, spontaneously forming into neural circuits resembling the cerebral cortex and mirroring brain activity.

New Lab-Grown Mini Brains Are the Most Advanced Yet

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced plans to build its third private undersea internet cable, expected to begin connecting Europe and Africa in 2021.

Science & Energy

Google’s Next Subsea Internet Cable to Connect Africa and Europe

By Dan Robitzski

Contrails given off by airplanes contribute more to global warming than we thought. By 2050, they'll warm the planet twice as much as the plane's emissions.

Airplane Contrails Might Actually be a Problem for the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A new set of equations can make sense of the physics behind turbulence, letting scientists better understand weather and the ways galaxies form.

New Turbulence Models Could Predict Galaxy Formation

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Re:Mars AI Conference Was Like a “Cloud Computing Cult”

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists generated entangled radiation using a mechanical object. They're describing it as the first step toward a quantum internet.

Scientists: Entangled Radiation May Help Build “Quantum Internet”

By Dan Robitzski

Google scientists trained a neural net to better navigate spaces with an archive of thousands of "Mannequin Challenge" videos.

Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Net Used a Viral Meme to Learn to Navigate

By Dan Robitzski

America, Russia, and China already frequently commit acts of "gray-area aggression" against each other in outer space as they toe the line of warfare.

Has a Space War Between US, China, Russia Already Started?

By Dan Robitzski

The lyrics database Genius embedded a hidden typography code into its lyrics to prove that Google was copying content directly from its site.

Science & Energy

Genius Used a Typography Trick to Bust Google For Stealing Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

Shortly after Facebook annoucned Libra, its new cryptocurrency, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and European leaders called for strong regulations.

Senator Slams Facebook’s New Crypto: “Facebook Is Already Too Big”

By Dan Robitzski

Contractors who moderate flagged posts for Facebook describe hellish and hostile working conditions while reviewing the worst of the internet.

Facebook Moderators Are Dying at Their Desks

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre, futuristic contests invited space agencies and astronomers from around the world to find the best way to colonize the Milky Way.

Astronomers Model How Humanity Could Colonize the Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

A team of French physicists claim to have created metallic hydrogen. Scientists say this experiment is more credible than past, overhyped attempts.

Scientists May Have Created Metallic Hydrogen—For Real this Time

By Dan Robitzski

Sydney became the first major Australian city to declare a state of emergency to prevent the worst effects of climate change on Monday.

Sydney Is in a State of Emergency to Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Someone — likely Chinese state actors — hacked over ten cell service companies around the world and monitored people's activity for seven years.

Science & Energy

Someone Hacked Global Telecom Companies. Experts Blame China.

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's pivot to blockchain and its new Libra cryptocurrency could sow the seeds of the company's destruction, argues fintech expert Marc-David Seidel.

Fintech Expert: Libra Could Be Facebook’s Downfall

By Dan Robitzski

Later this week, NATO officials are expected to announce the a strategy for militarizing outer space as individual nations ramp up weapons programs.

NATO Plans to Launch Its Strategy for Militarizing Space This Week

By Dan Robitzski

A physicist came up with models that support the idea that a 2D universe could still feasibly support life, poking holes in the anthropic argument.

New Theory: A 2D Universe Could Host Living Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

The FBI is investigating the billing practices of biomed startup uBiome. The company may have been billing insurers for more services than it provided.

Health & Medicine

FBI Investigating uBiome’s Billing Practices

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday night, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch 24 experimental satellites into orbit. CEO Elon Musk calls it the company's "most difficult launch."

Elon Musk: This Is SpaceX’s “Most Difficult Launch” Ever

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon just won exclusive rights to the ".amazon" internet domain after a seven-year-long dispute wiith eight South American governments.

Amazon Beats South American Nations in Fight Over .amazon Domain

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a popularity boost from Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, the value of Bitcoin recently surged to over $11,000.

Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Just Resuscitated Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

By Dan Robitzski

Dozens of newly-uncovered climate studies that were buried by Trump's USDA reveal how major foods like rice are becoming less nutritious.

Trump Admin. Hid Climate Reports Warning of New Dangers

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists recreated the extreme conditions of salty mud puddles on Mars in order to see whether microbial life could feasibly survive there.

Extraterrestrial Life Could Feasibly Live in Salty Puddles on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

That drone that Iran shot down was a super-spy behemoth that carries up to $90 million worth of surveillance equipment while flying for 34 hours at a time.

Before Iran Shot It Down, the US’s $130M Drone Spied on the World

By Dan Robitzski

Waymo, the Alphabet-owned company that develops autonomous cars, just joined an international partnership in hopes of reaching more global markets.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Bizarre Plan to Bring Autonomous Cars to France and Japan

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's defense minister recently announced that the country has begun combat tests for both lasers and hypersonic weaponry.

Russian Military Actively Testing Lasers, Hypersonic Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk took to Twitter to warn about an impending collapse in global population, arguing that demographics will look like an upside-down pyramid.

Elon Musk: Civilization Could Collapse in 30 Years

By Dan Robitzski

A new website illustrates how AI can now churn out believable blog posts, in this case focused on digital marketing strategies.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Generates Infinite Horrible Marketing Sites

By Dan Robitzski

As the technology becomes cheaper and more common, surgeons may find themselves routinely practicing for an operation with 3D-printed organs.

Prepping for Surgery With 3D-Printed Organs May Become Commonplace

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA plans to launch a trio of space probes — a "mothership" and two interceptors — that will wait up in space for comets to pass nearby.

ESA Announces “Mothership” Mission to Intercept Comets

By Dan Robitzski

A second look at data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals that the oceans of Saturns' moon, Eneceladus, could harbor ideal conditions for microbial life.

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has Nutrient-Rich Oceans

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed an AI "vaccine" that can make algorithms more resistant to hackers who launch adversarial attacks to try and confuse the systems.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI “Vaccine” Can Block Adversarial Attacks

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers hijacked critical computer networks in Riviera Beach, Florida. Without another option, the city paid a $600,000 ransom in Bitcoin.

Science & Energy

Florida City Pays Hackers $600,000 to Restore Hijacked Network

By Dan Robitzski

The Indian government just announced a new research agency that will develop new space weapons for any future off-world warfare.

India Just Announced That It’s Developing Space Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

An engineer found a way to turn juiced cactus leaves into a feasible substitute for plastic, and she wants to make biodegradable cutlery.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Make Fake, Biodegradable Plastic From Cactus Juice

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-discovered exoplanet called Teegarden b is more similar to Earth than any other world scientists have spotted so far.

Scientists Find the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever — and It’s Nearby

By Dan Robitzski

A new report fings that NASA has been downplaying the expected costs of its missions while rewarding contractors despite preventable delays

Gov. Watchdog: NASA Hid True Cost of Boeing Moon Rocket

By Dan Robitzski

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