More from Dan Robitzski (Page 47)

Leaders from 25 nations, including China, Russia, and the U.S. are currently meeting in Geneva to draft laws that would prevent a space arms race.
Off-World

25 Governments Are Meeting Right Now to Prevent a Space Arms Race

By Dan Robitzski

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb says that anti-vaxxers are putting the country at risk of facing epidemics of dangerous, preventable diseases.
Health & Medicine

FDA Head: Anti-Vaxxers Could Soon Cause an Epidemic

By Dan Robitzski

In the past, purifying water before splitting it into hydrogen was too costly. Now, there's a way to save money and use saltwater instead.
Climate Change

New Technique Turns Seawater Into Hydrogen Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

A new study found that some humans possess the ability to detect Earth's magnetism. We don't know why or how, but scientists think it's vestigial.
Biology

“Provocative” Research: Some People Can Sense Magnetic Fields

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese Space Agency just announced that Hayabusa2, the same robotic probe that landed on an asteroid, will drop a bomb on it and mine the fragments.
Off-World

Japan Announces Plan to Bomb Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

Donald Trump reportedly told several people that he believes self-driving cars will never work, despite his administration's push to develop them.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Trump Fears Self-Driving Cars: “You Can’t Stop the F*cking Thing”

By Dan Robitzski

States Are Approving Cannabis to Fight Opioid Addiction
Health & Medicine

States Are Approving Cannabis to Fight Opioid Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

Workplace messaging app Slack just announced that it banned 28 accounts that were known to be affiliated with hate groups.
Future Society

Slack Just Removed a Bunch of Hate Groups

By Dan Robitzski

2020 Presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke was reportedly part of the hacktivist group known as the Cult of the Dead Cow during his teenage years.
Hacking

Presidential Hopeful Beto O’Rourke Belonged to Infamous Hacker Group

By Dan Robitzski

Google has a history of absorbing DeepMind's AI technology into its own projects. To protect the goldmine of AGI, DeepMind has safeguards in place.
Google

There’s a Power Struggle Inside Google to Control Superhuman AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey by AAA shows that most Americans distrust self-driving cars. In the past two years, public trust in the emerging technology has gone down.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Just 19 Percent of Americans Trust Self-Driving Cars With Kids

By Dan Robitzski

Facing stricter restrictions on their gene-editing research from the FDA, some scientists are packing up their labs and leaving the U.S.
Biology

Scientists Are Fleeing America’s Rules About Gene-Editing Animals

By Dan Robitzski

A new scientific hypothesis posits that interstellar rocks like 'Oumuamua could have helped form planets throughout the galaxy.
Off-World

Interstellar Visitor Like ‘Oumuamua May Have Formed Earth’s Core

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is developing technology that could finally lead to secure voting machines. It plans to have experts from professors to hackers kick the tires.
Future Society

DARPA Is Building an Open Source Voting Machine

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new experiment, people find losing to robots and AI particularly demoralizing, which could have implications for our automated workplaces.
Artificial Intelligence

New Research: People Who Get Defeated By AI Feel Horrible

By Dan Robitzski

Beware of Bots is a new marketing campaign that hacked printers to send out a warning about automation, urging people to switch careers.
Artificial Intelligence

This Guy is Hacking Printers to Warn About Job-Stealing AI

By Dan Robitzski

Every picture of the solar system shows Venus as our closest neighbor. Sure, it comes closer to Earth than any planet, but on average Mercury is closer.
Off-World

Mercury Is Every Planet in the Solar System’s Closest Neighbor

By Dan Robitzski

IBM figured out how to use a quantum computer to make machine learning algorithms better than ever before. But no quantum computer is good enough yet.
Machine Learning

Why IBM Thinks Quantum Computers Will Boost Machine Learning

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, we can tip robots over and insult smart homes without fear of a robotic revolution. But ethicist Nicholas Agar warns that may someday change.
Artificial Intelligence

Ethicist Warns: Future AI Could Take Revenge for How We Treat It Now

By Dan Robitzski

Russian physicists, armed with a quantum computer, managed to send a single electron back in time, resetting the computer to its state from a moment earlier
Physics

Russian Scientists Used a Quantum Computer to Turn Back Time

By Dan Robitzski

According to a damning new internal review, the U.S. Navy is getting hacked so much that it can't even tell how much intel has been stolen.
Hacking

US Navy Struggling to Deal With an Onslaught of Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Citing national security, Russia just blocked access to servers necessary to run the encrypted email service ProtonMail and the anonymized web browser Tor.
Future Society

Russia Blocks Access to ProtonMail

By Dan Robitzski

A new quantum physics experiment demonstrates that objective reality may not exist. Two scientists can make irreconcilable measurements of an event.
Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests That Reality Isn’t Objective

By Dan Robitzski

IBM recently published a dataset for facial recognition AI made up of images that it scraped off of Flickr without asking for permission.
Artificial Intelligence

The Face Images Used to Train AI Are Taken Without Consent

By Dan Robitzski

A new website uses artificial intelligence trained on public job boards to generate random resumes. But the contact information it posts may be genuine.
Artificial Intelligence

You’re Hired! This Site Generates Random Neural Network Résumés

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's AI research group, OpenAI, just became a for-profit company that will generate revenue for its ongoing non-profit work.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Nonprofit Elon Musk Founded and Quit Is Now For-Profit

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that dimming sunlight through geoengineering, if done moderately, could lessen the effects of climate change with few side effects.
Climate Change

New Research: Dimming the Sun Wouldn’t be That Bad

By Dan Robitzski

A new Toyota patent details a personalized system that can fill a car with someone's favorite scent. Or, if they're stealing the car, with tear gas.
Advanced Transport

New Toyota Patent Would Let Cars Spray Thieves With Tear Gas

By Dan Robitzski

George Hotz told a crowd at SXSW that he suspects we live in a simulation, and he wants to find a way to break out of it.
Hacking

Famous Hacker Thinks We’re Living in Simulation, Wants to Escape

By Dan Robitzski

New research upends the common assumption that sound waves are weightless. It turns out they carry a trace amount of mass in the form of phonons.
Physics

Sound May Be Carried by Tiny Particles With Negative Gravity

By Dan Robitzski

To help people determine whether or not a news article was made up by a bot, scientists built a tool that looks for signs of humanity within text.
Artificial Intelligence

This Site Detects Whether Text Was Written by a Bot

By Dan Robitzski

As robots and AI replace more and more workers, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez argues we need a national safety net to provide for the displaced.
Future Society

AOC: Automation Means “More Time Enjoying the World We Live In”

By Dan Robitzski

Senator and 2020 hopeful Cory Booker introduced a bill Thursday that would legalize marijuana in the U.S. and retroactively expunge criminal records.
Future Society

New Senate Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Nationwide

By Dan Robitzski

IBM and food developer McCormick & Co developed a new AI platform that can create new foods better and faster than human experts.
Food

AI Trained on Decades of Food Research Is Making Brand-New Foods

By Dan Robitzski

These Self-Driving Cars Won’t Let Drunk Drivers Take Control
Self-Driving Vehicles

These Self-Driving Cars Won’t Let Drunk Drivers Take Control

By Dan Robitzski

The European Commission just published a report saying that Facebook, Google, and Twitter have all been too lax on their pledge to fight fake news.
Future Society

EU: Facebook, Google, Twitter Failed to Fight Fake News

By Dan Robitzski

European military tech contractor Rheinmetall Defense successfully tested a laser turret capable of taking down drones and mortar fire late last year.
Military

European Military Contractor Tests New Laser Weapon

By Dan Robitzski

When the Green New Deal was published, many criticized its deliberate exclusion of nuclear energy. Nuclear fusion doesn't exist yet, but may someday help.
Energy

The Problem With AOC’s Green New Deal: It Ignores Fusion Power

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok, the video-sharing social media app, agreed to pay a $5.7 million FTC fine for illegally storing data on pre-teen users.
Future Society

FTC Slams TikTok With Record Fine For Spying on Pre-Teens

By Dan Robitzski

A self-assembling network of silver nanowires responds to electrical signals in a similar way to how the brain stores memories.
Artificial Intelligence

Chemists Grew A “Synthetic Brain” That Stores Memories in Silver

By Dan Robitzski

The Army proposed shipping small nuclear reactors around the world to power military outposts. Experts suggest that may not be the wisest strategy.
Military

Experts Are Horrified by the Military’s Portable Nuclear Reactor

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army just put out a call for experts to help it develop autonomous targeting systems for ground combat vehicles like tanks.
Military

The Military Wants to Build Deadly AI-Controlled Tanks

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the brain can learn while asleep after all, but only during a particular point in a particular kind of brain wave.
Science & Energy

It Turns Out You Can Learn Things While You’re Asleep

By Dan Robitzski

Boeing just announced that its autonomous fighter jet, the Boeing Airpower Teaming System, will first take flight sometime next year.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Death From Above: Boeing Unveils Autonomous Fighter Jet

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon is currently testing a system that would let smartphones lock out users if it doesn't recognize their gait or grip.
Artificial Intelligence

New Pentagon Tech Unlocks Smartphone Based on Your Gait

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time outside of China, a clinic is using CRISPR gene editing techniques to treat someone in a clinical trial.
Health & Medicine

Western Biotech Firm Treats First Patient With CRISPR

By Dan Robitzski

Cosmologists have long sought to reconcile differences among calculations and observations of how fast the universe is growing. A new idea may explain how.
Physics

Bizarre New Theory: Something Tampered With the Early Universe

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis shows that there's only a one-in-a-million chance that climate change could have been caused by anything other than humanity.
Climate Change

Scientists Are 99.9999 Percent Sure Humans Caused Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.
Brain

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

New research explains the role of cloud cover in climate change. If we keep burning fossil fuels, the clouds will go away and climate change will worsen.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Eliminating Clouds. Without Them, Earth Burns

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's content moderators work under grueling conditions and are often traumatized by the videos they have to watch and remove.
Meta

Facebook Mods Are so Traumatized They’re Getting High at Work

By Dan Robitzski

Warren Buffett believes that electric cars are the future. He thinks American automakers will move in that direction whether or not the government helps.
Advanced Transport

Warren Buffett: “Electric Cars Are Very Much in America’s Future”

By Dan Robitzski

The Lunary Library, a backup copy of human knowledge, is on its way to the moon, where it will serve as an archive in case things go wrong on Earth.
Moon

Israeli Moon Lander Is Carrying a Vast Backup of Human Knowledge

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that introducing autonomous vehicles to the Washington D.C. area could worsen inequality and explores solutions.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Scientists Warn Self-Driving Cars Could Worsen Inequality

By Dan Robitzski

A Wall Street Journal investigation reveals that several popular health tracking apps send data to Facebook without ever asking or informing users.
Meta

Those Health Apps Send Your Biometric Data Straight to Facebook

By Dan Robitzski

When an Arizona hospital went bankrupt, its servers full of people's medical records went offline. Now its patients need access to get medical care.
Medical

Hospital Goes Out of Business, Pulls Medical Records Offline

By Dan Robitzski

Once again, Facebook has been caught offering advertisers the ability to specifically market to neo-Nazis and people interested in Nazi music.
Future Society

Facebook Reportedly Let Marketers Advertise to Nazis

By Dan Robitzski

The senators and representatives who oppose the Green New Deal have accepted several times more fossil fuel money than its supporters.
Environment

Senators Opposing Green New Deal Are Drowning in Fossil Fuel Cash

By Dan Robitzski

When news broke of He Jiankui's infamous gene editing research, an academic journal published his ethical guidelines. Now the article has been retracted.
Future Society

Journal Retracts Ethics Article by Doctor Who Gene Edited Babies

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the specific genetic edits performed on now-living humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui could have broader-than-expected impacts.
Brain

Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Babies “Likely” Boosted Their Brainpower

By Dan Robitzski

self-driving car company Waymo recently shared a video showing one of its autonomous vehicles being waved through an intersection where the light was out.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch a Self-Driving Car Obey Police Hand Signals

By Dan Robitzski

NASA commissioned SpaceX and Boeing to develop shuttles for crewed missions. Upcoming test flights may be delayed as NASA found several safety flaws.
Boeing

NASA Warns SpaceX and Boeing About Safety Flaws in Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

During a recent interview with law professor Jonathan Zittrain, Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly insisted against all evidence that Facebook promotes privacy.
Privacy

Mark Zuckerberg Insists That Facebook Promotes Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

Trump Calls For “6G,” Which Doesn’t Exist
Future Society

Trump Calls For “6G,” Which Doesn’t Exist

By Dan Robitzski