More from Dan Robitzski (Page 46)

Prince Harry recently spoke to a panel about the dangers of social media and Fortnite, the former of which he says is more addictive than drugs.

British Royalty Wants to Ban “Fortnite”

By Dan Robitzski

Following a week of protests over the company's controversial nominations, Google decided to cancel its new ethics board.

Google Started an Ethics Board and Then Killed It After Protests

By Dan Robitzski

IBM engineers just figured out how to build AI that can learn from its memories, transferring skills among related tasks instead of starting from scratch.

Artificial Intelligence

IBM’s New AI Does Something Amazing: It Learns From “Memories”

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a Google-developed neural network, we now live in the same universe as an audio deepfake of Trump singing Eminem.

Artificial Intelligence

Watch a Neural Network Make Trump Sing Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”

By Dan Robitzski

Linus Torvalds, the angry rant-prone creator of Linux, argues that modern social media incentivize terrible behavior online.

Linux Creator: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Are “A Disease”

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft is set to close its ebook store. Once it does, every book purchased on the platform will be deleted and refunded.

Microsoft is Closing an eBook Store, Deleting All Books You Bought

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found the a single dose of MDMA can help adult mice re-learn social behavior. They hope it can help people with PTSD.

MDMA Can “Reopen” a Part of the Brain That Closes After Puberty

By Dan Robitzski

Senator Warren just introduced a bill that would jail executives of billion-dollar tech companies from which users' personal info gets stolen.

Elizabeth Warren: If Data Gets Stolen, Throw Tech CEOs in Prison

By Dan Robitzski

For the past eight years, IBM's Watson AI division has boasted about plans to revolutionize healthcare. Now, doctors are getting tired of waiting.

Artificial Intelligence

Doctors Are Losing Faith in IBM Watson’s AI Doctor

By Dan Robitzski

North Korea's hacking division, APT 38, stole $1 billion from online banks and crypto exchanges in 2018. All that money is helping fund nuclear weapons.

North Korea Is Using Hackers to Steal Money for Nuclear Bombs

By Dan Robitzski

A video of a gigantic Amazon drone mothership blimp is making the rounds online. It's creepy and fun, but it's also completely fake.

Advanced Transport

Good News, People: That Amazon Mothership Blimp is Fake

By Dan Robitzski

As Google's new advisory council for artificial intelligence development prepares to convene for the first time, one member has a dire warning.

Google Ethics Adviser: Controlling Future AI is “Wishful Thinking”

By Dan Robitzski

Ebook distributor Overdrive is leveraging its vast collection of library rental data to improve the book reading experience with interactive elements.

This Ebook Company Is Trying to Make Reading More Like Videogames

By Dan Robitzski

By getting them to absorb metallic nanomaterials, scientists figured out how to make cyborg plants that may be able to survive out in space.

Scientists Say New Cyborg Plants Could Someday Grow on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of cutting a person open, future surgeries could be done by shocking cartilage until it's malleable and reshaping it with molds.

New Technique Alters Your Facial Appearance Without Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

A new genetic trick allowed researchers to use bacteria to manufacture super-strong spider silk faster than spiders do themselves.

Scientists Gene-Hacked Bacteria to Make Bullet-Proof Spider Silk

By Dan Robitzski

Right now there are 45 experimental projects in Europe working to generate hydrogen fuel using renewable sources of electricity.

Europe Is Stockpiling Wind Energy by Converting It to Hydrogen

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's weapon maker Almaz-Antey built a drone that can fire a semi-automatic 12 caliber shotgun. Video footage shows the thing in action.

Watch Russia’s New Shotgun-Wielding Drone in Action

By Dan Robitzski

Australia wants to mine water from the surface of the moon and use it to supply crewed missions to Mars or even deeper into space.

Australia Has a Plan to Mine Moon Water

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Hackers to Kill Small Drones

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Hackers to Kill Small Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Tencent researchers figured out that Tesla's Autopilot mode can be fooled into steering into oncoming traffic just by placing three stickers on the road.

A Sticker Can Trick Teslas Into Steering Toward Oncoming Traffic

By Dan Robitzski

A new astronomical study found out where the methane on Mars is coming from, and once again confirmed that it's there at all.

Astronomers Found Mars’ Missing Methane

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army is currently upgrading its Stryker tanks with laser weaponry that it says could disable drones and incoming RPGs.

The Military Is Mounting Laser Weapons on Tanks

By Dan Robitzski

Toyota's basketball-playing robot, Cue 3, isn't about to replace athletes, but it does herald a new era of incredibly-precise machinery.

Toyota’s Basketball Robot Can Nail Three-Pointers

By Dan Robitzski

A small robotic idol can listen to people's troubles and recite relevant passages from religious texts. Its creator says it could keep the elderly company.

This Robot Reads the Bible to Old People in Nursing Homes

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists build a DNA computer that can be written and rewritten to run different software, just like a conventional computer.

The World’s First Reprogrammable DNA Computer is Here

By Dan Robitzski

A distant asteroid named 6478 Gault likely fell prey to the YORP effect — sunlight caused it to spin so fast that it's ripping apart.

Astronomers Just Spotted an Asteroid Ripping Itself Apart

By Dan Robitzski

A Finnish startup called Vainu relies on prison labor to train its AI algorithms, arguing that labeling training data is giving inmates valuable skills.

Artificial Intelligence

A Finnish Startup Is Using Prison Labor to Train AI

By Dan Robitzski

In a missile defense test, the U.S. military launched and successfully intercepted an ICBM with ground-based, defensive missiles.

The US Military Just Blew Up an ICBM With Another Missile

By Dan Robitzski

Rick Perry authorized six separate deals made by U.S. companies that sold nuclear energy tech to Saudi Arabia, then kept the dealings secret.

America Secretly Sold Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can make creating deepfakes as easy as doodling a quick sketch on top of existing photos of celebrities.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing Neural Network Turns Doodles Into Realistic Photos

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army just went with Palantir over Raytheon after a year-long contest to determine which would design new battlefield AI.

Artificial Intelligence

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Palantir to Build Battlefield AI

By Dan Robitzski

Evolutionary robotics could give rise to machines that program their offspring, so to speak, using their own code and programming.

Scientists Are Teaching AI-Powered Robots to Reproduce, Evolve

By Dan Robitzski

Google has once again revitalized its robotics program, focusing on simple machines powered by powerful AI instead of humanoid robots.

Google’s Revived Robotics Department Prioritizes Powerful AI

By Dan Robitzski

Mike Burgess, Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate, revealed some aspects of the agency's cyberwar against ISIS and called for recruits.

Australia Reveals Cyberwar Against ISIS, Asks for Help

By Dan Robitzski

To save money on future missions, Japan's space agency is working to develop remote-controlled robots that can handle menial or dangerous tasks in space.

Japan Wants to Send Telepresence Robots to Space

By Dan Robitzski

A new report shows that banks are being hit by more and more attempted cyberattacks, and they may not always be proactive about their security practices.

Science & Energy

Banks Are Under Siege by Sophisticated Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

A new trend in San Francisco's Silicon Valley involves DJs who perform electronic music by coding their sets in real time.

These DJs Are Making Music By Coding on a Huge Screen

By Dan Robitzski

The Department of Defense has deemed that all 5,000 pages of documents on Google's work to build AI for military drones is too sensitive to release.

The Pentagon is Hiding Info About Google’s Work on Military Drones

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that human brains continue to grow new neurons after birth, tipping the scales of a decades-long scientific debate.

New Study Suggests Adult Brains Might Grow New Neurons

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a handheld device that uses CRISPR genetic tools and graphene transistors to screen for the mutations behind muscular dystrophy.

Health & Medicine

Handheld CRISPR Device Diagnoses Genetic Disease in 15 Minutes

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA funded a research project that wants to use the noise given off by snapping shrimp and other sea life as ubiquitous sonar.

DARPA Wants to Use Noisy Shrimp to Detect Enemy Subs

By Dan Robitzski

A pocket of researchers in Silicon Valley believe that people currently living can survive for 1,000 years. But others in the field remain skeptics.

Health & Medicine

A Scientist Thinks Someone Alive Today Will Live to be 1,000

By Dan Robitzski

On March 15, Google converted currencies to Ghana's Cedi at one-fourth of its actual value. This is the third country to be hit by the glitch this year.

Google Glitch Wrongly Claimed That Ghana’s Economy Collapsed

By Dan Robitzski

First noticed in 2016, the Australian government recently confirmed the first mammalian extinction that was caused by human-induced climate change.

Climate Change Just Wiped out Its First Mammal

By Dan Robitzski

New video footage shows that a dangerous problem with the Tesla Autopilot system that makes cars veer towards highway dividers is still happening.

Video Shows Tesla Autopilot Steering Toward Highway Barriers

By Dan Robitzski

More details emerge about the U.S. Army's virtual reality combat training simulations, which a software developer says is ramping up its scale.

Virtual Reality

The U.S. Army Is Using Virtual Reality Combat to Train Soldiers

By Dan Robitzski

MoviePass is launching a new app, PreShow, which will force you to watch — actually watch — 20 minutes of ads in exchange for movie tickets.

Brutal Startup Is Using Eye Tracking to Force You to Watch Ads

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization called for a public registry for all human gene-editing research to prevent any more debacles like that caused by He Jiankui

United Nations Calls for Registry of Human Gene-Editing Projects

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force recently announced plans to build "Skyborg," an AI program that will be able to fly fighter planes and drones and lessen the burden on people.

Artificial Intelligence

The Air Force Is Building AI to Fly Fighter Jets Called “Skyborg”

By Dan Robitzski

In a new op-ed for scientific american, scientists argue that anti-vaxxers are such a danger to society that they shouldn't be allowed near others.

Health & Medicine

Scientists: Anti-Vaxxers Are the Moral Equivalent of Drunk Drivers

By Dan Robitzski

China is following Russia's lead and constructing nuclear power plants on top of floating barges so it can bring cheap energy to distant islands.

China Is Building up to 20 Floating Nuclear Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

Fans of YouTube star PewDiePie have taken to ransomware attacks in order to try and drive up PewDiePie's subscriber count.

Science & Energy

New Virus Steals Your Files Until PewDiePie Gets 100M Subscribers

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is working to develop a ground force of killer robots. For now, the tank-like bots need help from humans, but that may change as AI improves.

Russia Is Planning A “Ground Force” of Armed Military Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A drone just flew through an Icelandic cave and generated a 3D map of the area in minutes, in a test run for systems that will do the same on Mars.

NASA’s Working on a Drone to Hunt For Life in Martian Caves

By Dan Robitzski

A new antimicrobial coating kept bacteria from growing on the International Space Station's door, which could protect immune-compromised astronauts.

International Space Station

Scientists’ New Goal: Make the ISS Bathroom Less Disgusting

By Dan Robitzski

Indian police just caught a man who was smuggling a live, human embryo into the country from Malaysia, where fertility treatments are more expensive.

Health & Medicine

A Smuggler Just Got Caught With a Live Human Embryo in His Luggage

By Dan Robitzski

China just closed the bidding period for contractors looking to build the country's first nuclear-powered icebreaker, set to be the largest in the world.

China Is Building a 33,000 Ton Nuclear Icebreaker

By Dan Robitzski

Though Google's Project Dragonfly made headlines, a number of American scientists are helping Chinese build its ubiquitous surveillance state.

Americans Built Tech for China’s Sinister “Re-Education Camps”

By Dan Robitzski

A new report by Spain's IE University found that a quarter of Europeans would rather be governed by artificial intelligence than a human politician.

Artificial Intelligence

A Quarter of Europeans Trust AI More Than Politicians

By Dan Robitzski

A panel of scientists just recommended to the Japanese government that CRISPR-edited foods should be declared safe to eat.

Japan Poised to Declare CRISPR-Edited Foods Safe to Eat

By Dan Robitzski

Engineer and author Kevin Morris argues that an "economic singularity" may be coming, where robots and AI can automate all the jobs there are.

New Futurist Fear: “Economic Singularity” Could Kill Jobs Forever

By Dan Robitzski

With CRISPR gene editing, scientists hope to be able to create human-pig hybrids that will let us grow and harvest life-saving human organs.

Health & Medicine

This Guy Is Trying to Grow Organs in Pig-Human Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

Toyota is manufacturing a small amount of hydrogen fuel-powered cars in Japan. Right now they cost a prohibitive $50,000 but may cheapen with scale.

Toyota is Selling a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car for $50,000

By Dan Robitzski

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