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New Research: Bone Marrow Transplants Might Prevent Aging
Health & Medicine

New Research: Bone Marrow Transplants Might Prevent Aging

By Dan Robitzski

Just days after release, Nike released a software update for its self-tightening sneaker that ended up crashing the whole system.
Future Society

Software Bug Immediately Crashes Nike’s Self-Lacing Sneakers

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army is currently vetting potential replacements for its iconic Black Hawk helicopter, which is too slow and has too short a range to stay useful.
Advanced Transport

A “Tiltrotor” Helicopter May Replace the Army’s Black Hawk

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk recently claimed that Tesla would put fully-autonomous vehicles on the road before year's end. Experts in the field don't buy it.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Expert Roasts Musk: Self-Driving Teslas In a Year Is “Impossible”

By Dan Robitzski

Air and Space Law professor Michelle Hanlon argues that if we don't draft new laws, the destruction of landmarks that happens on Earth will repeat in space.
Moon

Lawyer: People Could Try to Sell the Apollo Moon Footprints

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy tested on mice can treat a specific kind of congenital deafness by repairing a faulty inner-ear protein.
Biology

Scientists Used Gene Therapy to Cure Deafness in Mice

By Dan Robitzski

Indian police just swore in KP-Bot as a sub-inspector. The robot police officer will work behind the front desk and direct visitors as needed.
Robotics

India Just Swore in Its First Robot Police Officer

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this month, Google inadvertently revealed that its home security device, Nest, contained a secret microphone. Now it says secrecy was a "mistake."
Google

Google: Secret Nest Microphone “Never Intended to Be a Secret”

By Dan Robitzski

Vampire Clinic That Sold Young Blood to the Wealthy Closes Shop
Health & Medicine

Vampire Clinic That Sold Young Blood to the Wealthy Closes Shop

By Dan Robitzski

The Bangladeshi government is scrubbing the internet of porn. But it's also monitoring people's personal social media accounts for provocative images.
Future Society

Bangladesh Declares “War on Pornography,” Blocks TikTok

By Dan Robitzski

A new tool called the TreePol spectropolarimeter could someday scan for extraterrestrial life without picking up any false positives.
Off-World

New Gadget Detects Lifeforms From Long Distances

By Dan Robitzski

A robot just physically examined the radioactive fuel at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactor. It's the first step toward an ongoing cleanup mission.
Robotics

Japan Sends Robot Into the Nuclear Hell of the Fukushima Reactor

By Dan Robitzski

QuadrigaCX has about two weeks left to its stay to raise the money it owes before anyone can sue, but a judge just appointed law firms to its customers.
Bitcoin

Users of Crypto Site Where Dead CEO Lost $196M Are Preparing Suit

By Dan Robitzski

When employers provide fitness trackers, they're privy to all sorts of private medical information that they can potentially use to determine layoffs.
Health & Medicine

Bosses Are Spying on Employees With Work-Provided Fitness Trackers

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA released a statement today warning that longevity companies advertising transfusions of young people's blood are likely scams.
Health & Medicine

The FDA Warns: Transfusions of Young Blood Are a Dangerous Scam

By Dan Robitzski

Surveys of all the matter in the universe missed about a third of what was predicted by calculations. Scientists may have finally found the missing stash.
Off-World

Scientists May Have Finally Found the Universe’s Missing Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Dubai International Airport faced a 30-minute shutdown after a drone was spotted nearby, It's the third major airport to face recent drone-related delays.
Drones

Drones Just Shut Down Another Huge Airport

By Dan Robitzski

A philosopher wanted to unify the various field-specific definitions physicists have for black holes. He decided that the variety was good for science.
Black Holes

A Philosopher Is Trying to Figure out What Black Holes Really Are

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists recently announced plans to build and launch a solar power plant that would float in outer space and beam electricity down.
Off-World

China Is Building a Solar Power Station in Space

By Dan Robitzski

CA Governor Wants Tech Companies to Pay People for Personal Data
Data Privacy

CA Governor Wants Tech Companies to Pay People for Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

According to a report put out by California's DMV, Waymo's autonomous vehicles drive 11,154.3 miles per disengagement, but that number might be generous.
Advanced Transport

Expert Slams Waymo Safety Data: “They Obviously Do Not Trust These Numbers”

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on the cognitive effects of microdosing finds that it can alleviate depression and stress but doesn't have the profound effects people expect.
Health & Medicine

First Rigorous Study: Microdosing Fights Depression, Improves Focus

By Dan Robitzski

OpenAI built an AI algorithm that can write full, mostly-coherent passages of text. It's so sophisticated that OpenAI decided it was too dangerous to share.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing New AI Churns Out “Coherent Paragraphs of Text”

By Dan Robitzski

Pope Francis and Microsoft's Brad Smith met recently to discuss how AI could be developed in an ethical way and announced a new ethical AI contest.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s President Met With the Pope to Talk About Ethical AI

By Dan Robitzski

Competing AI systems tasked with setting a product's price eventually stop competing with low prices and instead gouge their customers.
Artificial Intelligence

Two Pricing AIs Went Rogue and Formed a Cartel to Gouge Humans

By Dan Robitzski

In order to draw attention to IBM's new generative adversarial network, a website generates slightly-unsettling faces that were created by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Mysterious Site Uses AI to Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces

By Dan Robitzski

We tested that AI Portrait generator on a bunch of celebrities and politicians. The results ranged from "okay I see it" to "hard nope."
Artificial Intelligence

Here’s What AI Thinks A Bunch of Famous People Look Like

By Dan Robitzski

Los Angeles Axes Plan For Billions of Dollars In Fossil Fuel Investments
Climate Change

Los Angeles Axes Plan For Billions of Dollars In Fossil Fuel Investments

By Dan Robitzski

A team of security researchers found a flaw in Xiaomi's M365 electric scooter. They were able to remotely control a scooter in a matter of hours.
Advanced Transport

Hackers Can Access Your Electric Scooter While You’re Riding It

By Dan Robitzski

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car
Facial recognition

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Project Debater, an AI system that composes arguments, recently lost a debate to a world-renowned human debating expert.
Artificial Intelligence

A Human Debater Just Roasted IBM’s “Intelligent Debate” AI Onstage

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills
Medical

The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills

By Dan Robitzski

Anonymous contractors at Apple's so-called "black site," a low-key office for Apple Maps development, described grim working conditions.
Future Society

Apple Runs A “Black Site” That a Worker Called “Dehumanizing”

By Dan Robitzski

An AI system can scan photos of child trafficking victims in hotel rooms and determine where they were taken based on the furniture in the room.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using AI to Find Hotel Rooms Being Used for Child Sex Trafficking

By Dan Robitzski

Some time in the next month, Russia will briefly disconnect the nation's internet to make sure local networks could withstand a hostile takeover.
Future Society

Russia Plans to Cut Itself Off From the Global Internet

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Want to Build a Space Station Inside an Asteroid
Off-World

Scientists Want to Build a Space Station Inside an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

According to a prominent think tank's new report, the Chinese military is adopting artificial intelligence tech as quickly as it can.
Military

China Thinks AI Could Make Its Military As Powerful as America’s

By Dan Robitzski

New research that grew new mouse toes took an important step towards the ability to regenerate mammalian limbs after amputation.
Biology

A New Cocktail of Proteins Makes Mice Regenerate Toes Like Lizards

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent blog post, an Amazon VP called for stronger regulations for facial recognition technology, including Amazon's own Rekognition.
Facial recognition

Amazon Calls for Regulation of Its Own Facial Recognition Tech

By Dan Robitzski

Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption
Future Society

Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption

By Dan Robitzski

The resolution for the Green New Deal was posted online. It includes ambitious plans to clean up the U.S. economy by 2030, but lacks specific proposals.
Climate Change

“Green New Deal” Calls for a Zero-Emission America by 2030

By Dan Robitzski

Oregon Senator Ron Ryden introduced a new cybersecurity bill that would let the FTC impose and enforce strict cybersecurity standards for tech companies.
Data Privacy

New Bill Would Let FTC Jail Execs For Data Breaches

By Dan Robitzski

Stanford University is currently investigating three scientists who either knew about or were involved in He Jiankui's infamous CRISPR baby research.
Biology

Stanford Probes Faculty Who Knew About Gene-Hacked Chinese Babies

By Dan Robitzski

The founder of a crypto exchange, QuadrigaCX recently died, and his widow claims that the company's Bitcoin reserves are now stuck in an encrypted wallet.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Site Loses $137 Million in Dead Founder’s Encrypted Wallet

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of neuroscientists just found four distinction patterns of brain activity that they say are responsible for consciousness.
Biology

Scientists Claim to Find “Neurological Signature” of Consciousness

By Dan Robitzski

"The NYPD will pursue all legal remedies to prevent the continued posting of this irresponsible and dangerous information."
Google

NYPD Demands That Google Stop Flagging DWI Checkpoints on Waze

By Dan Robitzski

Self-Propelling Pills Could Mean The End of Needle Vaccines
Biology

Self-Propelling Pills Could Mean The End of Needle Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

When virtual reality hits the mainstream, companies may find that its cheaper to invest in VR headsets and simulated offices than physical real estate.
Virtual Reality

I Tried a VR App Meant to Replace Offices, and It Was Glorious

By Dan Robitzski

A Navy research facility just put out a call for contractors who can totally incinerate 4,000 pounds of hard drives from a laser research program.
Military

The Navy Is Incinerating Hard Drives About Laser Weapon Research

By Dan Robitzski

To teach artificial intelligence to understand context and common sense, researchers are training it to play an online version of Pictionary.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using Pictionary to Teach “Common Sense” to AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical device could charge pacemakers using the kinetic energy of a person's heartbeat. If it works, it could eliminate costly and risky surgeries.
Devices

New Implant Powers Cyborg Devices Using Your Heartbeat

By Dan Robitzski

A new 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy shows a different structure than scientists expected. It turns out the outer disk is all warped out of shape.
Off-World

The Milky Way is a Lot More Warped Than Scientists Thought

By Dan Robitzski

San Francisco has a new "big data" approach to coordinate housing for its homeless population. It could help a lot of people, but compromises their privacy.
Future Society

San Francisco Built a System to Track Homeless People

By Dan Robitzski

A team of four universities is working on the comprehensive guide to all existing space law, a field they argue is currently too jumbled to make sense of.
Off-World

These Four Universities Are Trying to Figure Out Space Law

By Dan Robitzski

Family Tree DNA, recently celebrated as the most privacy-minded consumer genetic testing company, is now granting database access to the FBI.
Data Privacy

This DNA Testing Company Gave Its Data to the FBI

By Dan Robitzski

NASA administrator Thomas Zurbuchen argues that extraterrestrial life may be out there, given recent discoveries of off-world water and organic molecules.
NASA

NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon responded to recent criticism its facial recognition system, Rekognition, by claiming safeguards were in place. The cops using it disagree.
Facial recognition

Cops Are Using Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Wrong

By Dan Robitzski

As the American Midwest is hit by a break in the polar vortex, many electric vehicle owners find themselves unable to hit the roads.
Tesla

It’s So Cold, Even Teslas Are Freezing Shut

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, a rigorous scientific study shows that e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking better than the patch, but the data gets complicated.
Health & Medicine

New Evidence: E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit

By Dan Robitzski

In a new letter to company shareholders, Tesla announced that it plans to begin mass-producing the Model Y SUV by the end of 2020.
Tesla

Tesla Plans to Mass-Produce the Model Y SUV Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

A new underwater tent provides scuba divers with a portable, air-filled resting area while they decompress or conduct research.
Science & Energy

Air-Filled Tent Lets Scuba Divers Camp Out Underwater

By Dan Robitzski

A new investigation reveals that out of 48 healthcare startups that raised $1 billion, over half have barely published any research to support their claims.
Health & Medicine

Health Startups’ Dark Secret: Most Don’t Publish Peer-Reviewed Research

By Dan Robitzski

Exclusive: A Waymo One Rider’s Experiences Highlight Autonomous Rideshare’s Shortcomings
Self-Driving Vehicles

Exclusive: A Waymo One Rider’s Experiences Highlight Autonomous Rideshare’s Shortcomings

By Dan Robitzski

Wall Street investors seem to believe that the real value of autonomous vehicles comes from the data they'll collect, based on recent AV company valuations.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Investors Pour Money Into Self-Driving Cars to Capitalize on Data

By Dan Robitzski