More from Dan Robitzski (Page 51)

A team of physicists created a 360 video that takes people on a tour of a realistic simulation of the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way.
Black Holes

360-Degree Video Shows What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA spent $68 million over two years on deepfake-spotting AI. It's making progress, but the government might be fighting a losing battle.
DARPA

DARPA Spent $68 Million on Technology to Spot Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

As more AI research is shared with the public, more hobbyists are picking it up and building algorithms to help them with everyday life
Artificial Intelligence

How a Neural Network Runs a Family-Owned Japanese Dry Cleaner

By Dan Robitzski

An activist group called Bail Bloc collects cryptocurrency mined from volunteers' computers. It's using it to free people from ICE custody.
Cryptocurrency

How Crypto Mining is Getting People Out of ICE Custody

By Dan Robitzski

Australian scientists created a new kind of video game where you swallow a high-tech pill and win by changing your gut chemistry.
Prosthetics and Devices

An Edible Controller Moves Gaming From the Screen to Your Gut

By Dan Robitzski

Using a new AI system, researchers within the infant scientific discipline asteroseismology can learn more about the subsurface activity of distant stars.
Off-World

New AI Is Peering Into the Nuclear Cores of Distant Stars

By Dan Robitzski

The recently reunited band The KLF wants 35,000 fans to stuff their cremated remains into a brick to be built into a giant pyramid. Seems reasonable.
Future Society

Pop Band “The KLF” to Build a Pyramid out of 35,000 Cremated Fans

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musks' Boring Company has been hard at work tunneling away under Hawthorne, California. But they never informed the community that they would do so.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Didn’t Ask Homeowners Before Tunneling Under Them

By Dan Robitzski

A biotechnology firm figured out how to scan an embryo for genetic markers that predict an abnormally high or low intelligence.
Health & Medicine

New Test Predicts How Smart Babies Will Be Before They’re Born

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard scientists just launched a new initiative to steer the U.S. towards better AI policy. Soon, they'll teach Congress the basics.
Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Is Launching an “AI Bootcamp” For Tech-Phobic Lawmakers

By Dan Robitzski

The La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV sensor monitors how much UVA and UVB radiation you're getting, so you know when to get more sunscreen.
Health & Medicine

L’Oreal and Apple Built a Wearable to Measure UV Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

Google engineers trained a neural net on thousands of song lyrics and classic novels. It wrote some songs and we think they're fantastic.
Google

Google Trained a Neural Net to Write Cringey Song Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

After a sale to SoftBank fell apart, Alphabet is beginning to dissolve Schaft, the company it purchased to develop bipedal robots.
Robotics

Alphabet Cancels Walking Robot Project After Internal Turmoil

By Dan Robitzski

The 77th Brigade of the British Army is responsible for creating viral marketing campaigns that promote the military's interests around the world.
Future Society

The British Army has an Official Viral Content Division

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, the British military started a four-week experiment to test out over 70 new technologies. Among them are autonomous drones.
Robotics

The UK is Testing Robots to Deliver Food and Ammo to Soldiers

By Dan Robitzski

The U.K.'s Ministry of Defense is actively building military drones that can target and kill with minimal human involvement.
Self-Driving Vehicles

The UK Is Developing Autonomous Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA hopes to find a way to counter Russia's missiles that can allegedly travel 20 times the speed of sound. It won't be easy.
Future Society

The Pentagon Needs Help Intercepting “Hypersonic” Nukes

By Dan Robitzski

Spanish scientists just let some photosynthetic bacteria go to town on stool samples. They turned it into biofuel and filtered out any greenhouse gases.
Bacteria

A Purple, Photosynthetic Bacteria Can Turn Your Poop Into Power

By Dan Robitzski

Mattereum wants to tokenize the whole economy and become the platform that brings digital smart contracts to tangible investments.
Blockchain

Why a Blockchain Startup Bought This $9 Million Stradivarius Violin

By Dan Robitzski

A new charge-storing system looks like a fabric that can be stitched into whatever you're wearing that day, helping discretely power biosensors.
Science & Energy

A New Battery Can Be Stitched Into Clothes to Power Wearables

By Dan Robitzski

New 3D maps of the Earth's crust hidden beneath Antarctic ice reveal new fragments of ancient continents, perhaps broken off when Pangaea split.
Space

A Satellite Found Remnants of Lost Continents Under Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

Next week, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) is set to meet and redefine the kilogram. It's a bizarre step forward for science.
Physics

The Metric System Is About To Get a Long-Anticipated Upgrade

By Dan Robitzski

These Lonely Planets Drift Through Space Without Orbiting Stars
Off-World

These Lonely Planets Drift Through Space Without Orbiting Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Phubbing: How Phones Pull You Away From Your Loved Ones
Future Society

Phubbing: How Phones Pull You Away From Your Loved Ones

By Dan Robitzski

New Self-Repairing Material Could Let You Key Your Car Just for Fun
Science & Energy

New Self-Repairing Material Could Let You Key Your Car Just for Fun

By Dan Robitzski

Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, issued a dire warning of a future where facial recognition tech helps the government track civilians. He's helping it.
Future Society

Microsoft President Warns Of “1984” Facial Recognition Future

By Dan Robitzski

After four years of study, NASA concluded that 3D printing works just as well in space as it does on Earth. Deep space missions may be in the future.
NASA

NASA: Objects 3D Printed in Space Perform Well Enough to Support Missions

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft just created a new AI system that can scan a news column and pull out the most important facts for quicker reading.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s New Neural Network Summarizes the News — Erratically

By Dan Robitzski

A new kind of prosthetic limb gives people the control of the most sophisticated prostheses out there, but is also easily-interchangeable.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Prosthetic Limbs are More Interchangeable Than Ever

By Dan Robitzski

A new online tool, "AI Portraits" takes a photo of your face and uses artificial intelligence to try and generate a realistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

This Website Will Generate an AI Portrait of You

By Dan Robitzski

Five Fun Tips To Help Delay Climate Catastrophe
Climate Change

Five Fun Tips To Help Delay Climate Catastrophe

By Dan Robitzski

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested big money in new sanitation technology, yielding developments that could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Health & Medicine

Bill Gates Wants to Save Lives and Money With High-Tech Toilets

By Dan Robitzski

Plant-based meats are more impressive and convincing than ever. But if they're going to save the environment, governments need to help.
Environment

Unless Governments Get Involved, Plant-Based Meat Won’t Take Off

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that those who are given more money become greedier and refuse to help fight climate change. The poor are left on their own.
Climate Change

To Fight Climate Change, The Poor Would Spend More Than The Rich

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-discovered star in our galaxy is only 300 million years younger than the universe itself. it's older than anything scientists expected to find.
Off-World

An Ancient Star Reveals Our Galaxy Is Older Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Tim Berners-Lee, who created the world wide web in 1989, just called for online privacy regulations and restored net neutrality.
Future Society

The Inventor of the Web Says It’s Broken and Net Neutrality Can Fix It

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI agent taught itself, using reinforcement learning, how to get dressed in the morning. The results could make animation much easier on artists.
Artificial Intelligence

Having a Bad Day? An Adorable Video Shows AI Learning to Get Dressed

By Dan Robitzski

A giant space laser, built with mostly-existing technology, could serve as a homing beacon for any aliens that might be out there.
Exobiology

A Giant Space Laser on Earth Could Blast Messages at Alien Planets

By Dan Robitzski

A new machine learning algorithm built by 20th Century Fox can compare movie trailers and predict which films will appeal to an audience.
Machine Learning

Fox is Using Machine Learning to Predict Which Movies Will be Hits

By Dan Robitzski

The military and government labs are building new navigation and steering devices that use quantum physics and Earth's magnetic field.
Advanced Transport

Quantum Navigation Could be as Accurate as GPS, Without Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Palau will ban all coral reef-damaging sunscreens by 2020. It's a small but important drop in the bucket if we want to stop bleaching.
Environment

A Sunscreen Ban Won’t Save the Coral Reefs, but It’s a Good Start

By Dan Robitzski

A recent phase II clinical trial showed evidence that MDMA treatment, in addition to psychotherapy, might be able to help people with PTSD.
Health & Medicine

MDMA Therapy Eliminated PTSD Symptoms In 76 Percent of Patients

By Dan Robitzski

New AI Thinks Like a Scientist to Explain the Physics of Virtual Worlds
Physics

New AI Thinks Like a Scientist to Explain the Physics of Virtual Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

A recent poll, admittedly one with little scientific rigor, found that many people in tech sector think their companies are doing beneficial work.
Future Society

Some Big Tech Employees Fear The Future They’re Creating

By Dan Robitzski

Clean coal doesn't exist, but burning it in as clean a way as possible could give us more time to adopt clean, renewable energy around the world.
Climate Change

Tweaking Coal Plant Emissions Could Slow Down Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Malta launched a new AI task force to develop a plan for safe, effective, beneficial AI. It will also determine how a robot might earn citizenship.
Artificial Intelligence

The Island Nation Malta Created a Citizenship Test for Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Whether it's to manage the world better than we do or give us new insight into how our own minds work, many experts agree we should make a human-level AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Why Should We Bother Building Human-Level AI? Five Experts Weigh In

By Dan Robitzski

With a spinal implant boosting paralyzed people's brains' commands, they were able to walk short distances for the first time since their injuries.
Health & Medicine

A Spinal Implant Is Helping Paralyzed People Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

Federal research into universal basic income shows that regular cash payments don't reduce employment at all. In fact, it seems to help.
Universal Basic Income

A New Study Shows Basic Income Doesn’t Deter People From Working

By Dan Robitzski

Veloce, a new astronomical tool that can spot Earth-sized planets tightly orbiting dim stars, was just installed in an Australian observatory.
Exoplanets

This Upgraded Telescope Hunts Exoplanets Orbiting Dim Stars

By Dan Robitzski

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.
Artificial Intelligence

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA announced Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth and looking for exoplanets since 2009, ran out of fuel. RIP.
NASA

NASA: Kepler Space Telescope is Out of Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

A new type of battery might give small planes enough of a boost to take off and complete short-range flights without using any fossil fuels.
Advanced Transport

New Battery Tech Could Power a Flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced a $25 million contest that asks people to develop AI systems that actually benefit society for a change.
Google

Google Wants You to Build AI That Benefits Society

By Dan Robitzski

There's a lot of space junk orbiting the planet. The Air Force just put out a call for high-tech ways to keep track of it all.
Off-World

The Air Force Wants Your Help Guarding Satellites From Space Junk

By Dan Robitzski

A retroactive look at a two year old study suggests that a type of photosynthetic bacteria interacted with individual photons at the quantum scale.
Physics

Scientists May Have Put Microbes in a State of Quantum Entanglement

By Dan Robitzski

A Spanish company has figured out how to turn raw sewage into clean energy in the form of a coal-like fuel that burns without giving off carbon dioxide.
Energy

Clean Coal Startup Turns Human Waste Into Earth-Friendly Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

A Toronto startup figured out how to get bacteria to turn food waste into biodegradable plastics. If it scales, it could prevent loads of methane emissions.
Environment

These Bacteria Digest Food Waste Into Biodegradable Plastic

By Dan Robitzski

One AI conference has refused changing its notoriously alienating name.
Future Society

An AI Conference Refusing a Name Change Highlights a Tech Industry Problem

By Dan Robitzski

Climate Change

Scientists: The Government Should Invest in Carbon Capture Now

By Dan Robitzski

Future Society

Former General: The US Will Likely Fight a War With China

By Dan Robitzski

Self-Driving Vehicles

Poll: Cool Teens Think Self-Driving Cars Are Totally Lame

By Dan Robitzski

New York State says that Exxon Mobile played down the risks of Climate Change
Climate Change

New York Sues Exxon Mobil Over Climate Change Deception

By Dan Robitzski

Privacy

Big Tech Splits Over Privacy Issues, at Least on the Surface.

By Dan Robitzski