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Prosthetics and Devices

For a Thousand Bucks, You Can Get the First Non-Dorky Smart Glasses

By Dan Robitzski

Pollution

Microplastics Are Already in Our Bodies, According to a New Study

By Dan Robitzski

Drones

Uber Aims to Replace Delivery Drivers With Drones

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's quantum computers will change technology
Computers

IBM: Quantum Computers Could Be Useful, But We Don’t Know Exactly How

By Dan Robitzski

How to Generate (Almost) Anything is collaborating with their custom AI systems to bring bizarre foods, clothes, and art into the real world.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Researchers Bringing Bizarre AI Creations to Life

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese-made robot can automatically zap mosquitos to stop the spread of disease. It's like a Roomba meets the Terminator.
Robotics

A Toy-Sized, Laser-Wielding Robot Is Here to Kill Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

This Group is Giving Away Art Robots to Public Schools
Robotics

This Group is Giving Away Art Robots to Public Schools

By Dan Robitzski

It's easy to fall for all of the marketing and hype, but artificial intelligence isn't half as robust as many want you to believe.
Artificial Intelligence

You Have No Idea What Artificial Intelligence Really Does

By Dan Robitzski

The Royal Society pledged to publish studies that attempt to replicate any research that it's published. Other journals should do the same.
Science & Energy

An Academic Publisher Challenges Its Peers: Verify the Research You Publish

By Dan Robitzski

Report: It’s Easy to Hack an Entire Generation of Military Weapons
Military

Report: It’s Easy to Hack an Entire Generation of Military Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla bragged about getting the highest safety ratings in the history of cars. Now the government says that's not exactly how it works.
Tesla

Government to Tesla: We Never Said the Model 3 Was the “Safest Car Ever”

By Dan Robitzski

Edible Tech Is Finally Useful, Is Here to Help You Poop
Health & Medicine

Edible Tech Is Finally Useful, Is Here to Help You Poop

By Dan Robitzski

Wind Farms Might Heat up the Planet, After All
Wind

Wind Farms Might Heat up the Planet, After All

By Dan Robitzski

A series of neural nets wrote a novel based on what it saw and heard while being driven around the country. It's, uh, interesting.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Took a Road Trip and Wrote a Terrible Novel About It

By Dan Robitzski

The Five Funniest Things about the SEC’s Lawsuit against Elon Musk
Elon Musk

The Five Funniest Things about the SEC’s Lawsuit against Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Training a neural net to decode a person's brain signals and send them to a robotic limb led to better, precise control over prosthetics.
Brain

A Neural Network, Connected to a Human Brain, Could Mean More Advanced Prosthetics

By Dan Robitzski

Don’t Want to Receive That Presidential Text Alert Today? Here’s How to Avoid It
Future Society

Don’t Want to Receive That Presidential Text Alert Today? Here’s How to Avoid It

By Dan Robitzski

Google DeepMind built the largest-scale generative adversarial network to date. The algorithm can make photorealistic pictures of burgers and dogs.
Google

Google Used Its Most Sophisticated AI yet to Create Pictures of Burgers

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Used CRISPR to Domesticate This Delicate Fruit
Environment

Scientists Used CRISPR to Domesticate This Delicate Fruit

By Dan Robitzski

Segway is about to launch a new generation of personal transportation: self-balancing, motorized roller skates will launch next month.
Advanced Transport

Segway is Back With An Even More Insane Way To Move Your Feet

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s Got Ambitious Goals for Crewed Space Exploration
NASA

NASA’s Got Ambitious Goals for Crewed Space Exploration

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of scientists just announced their strategy for trying to figure out whether Mars can support life.
Mars

Scientists Need to Solve These Two Mysteries to Find Life on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts
Future Society

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts

By Dan Robitzski

When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think
Artificial Intelligence

When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think

By Dan Robitzski

The World’s First Practical Quantum Computer May Be Just Five Years Away
Quantum Computing

The World’s First Practical Quantum Computer May Be Just Five Years Away

By Dan Robitzski

The Justice Department Is Investigating Tesla For Fraud
Tesla

The Justice Department Is Investigating Tesla For Fraud

By Dan Robitzski

Clearing Faulty Cells Out Of The Brain May Stave Off Cognitive Decline
Brain

Clearing Faulty Cells Out Of The Brain May Stave Off Cognitive Decline

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA just unveiled a research project that lets people control multiple jet planes at once with just their thoughts. For now, it requires invasive surgery.
Military

Military Pilots Can Control Three Jets at Once via a Neural Implant

By Dan Robitzski

Flying Cars May Work Best When Tethered to Power Lines
Advanced Transport

Flying Cars May Work Best When Tethered to Power Lines

By Dan Robitzski

The New Apple Watch Transforms What a “Medical Device” Can Look Like
Medical

The New Apple Watch Transforms What a “Medical Device” Can Look Like

By Dan Robitzski

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News
Artificial Intelligence

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News

By Dan Robitzski

A U.S. judge ruled that cryptocurrencies fall under SEC securities law. Here's how crypto investors and lawyers are taking the news.
Bitcoin

Here’s What One Judge’s Decision Means for the Future of Cryptocurrencies

By Dan Robitzski

If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses
Artificial Intelligence

If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence agents in a simulated environment developed became biased against dissimilar agents without any outside influence.
Artificial Intelligence

Left Unchecked, Artificial Intelligence Can Become Prejudiced All On Its Own

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence will change life for the better. But there are reasons to be cautious as well. Five experts tell Futurism what most worries them.
Artificial Intelligence

Five Experts Share What Scares Them the Most About AI

By Dan Robitzski

Though still unconfirmed, it is likely that the mysterious symptoms of people at the U.S. Embassies in Cuba and China were caused by microwave weaponry.
Robots and Machines

Those Mysterious Attacks In Cuba Probably Involved Weaponized Microwaves

By Dan Robitzski

A new kind of artificial intelligence is able to recognize and remember objects in a way that's a lot more like humans and a lot less like algorithms.
Artificial Intelligence

New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary — It Remembers

By Dan Robitzski

Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
Artificial Intelligence

Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.

By Dan Robitzski

A panel of venture capitalists and other experts on financing AI startups agree: to get a truly general AI system, governments will need to step up.
Artificial Intelligence

If We Ever Want Artificial General Intelligence, Governments Need To Invest In It

By Dan Robitzski

Humanity is terrible at planning for the distant future. If we build advanced artificial intelligence, it might save us from ourselves.
Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Run The World Better Than Humans Ever Could

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have undertaken a project to unlock Bioinspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC), a new type of science that could help replace fossil fuels.
Fossil Fuels

Sugar, Light, And A New Type of Chemistry — What It May Take To Wean Us Off Fossil Fuels

By Dan Robitzski

To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair
Artificial Intelligence

To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair

By Dan Robitzski

Supply and demand don't matter anymore. Bill Gates says that American politicians have failed to adjust to an economy based on software and code.
Future Society

Bill Gates Says We Need New Economic Models That Take Tech Into Account

By Dan Robitzski

The SEC Just Subpoenaed Elon Musk Over His Tesla Tweets
Elon Musk

The SEC Just Subpoenaed Elon Musk Over His Tesla Tweets

By Dan Robitzski

Freezing And Storing Donated Organs Could Eliminate Some Transplant Waitlists
Medical

Freezing And Storing Donated Organs Could Eliminate Some Transplant Waitlists

By Dan Robitzski

Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data
Data Privacy

Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

After refusing to ban InfoWars, Twitter's Jack Dorsey said the problem was his failure to explain Twitter's decisions. That's not the real issue.
Future Society

Explaining Its Decisions Isn’t Going To Make Twitter Better

By Dan Robitzski

Fortnite Didn’t Do Anything New. That’s Why It Will Shape The Future Of Gaming.
Future Society

Fortnite Didn’t Do Anything New. That’s Why It Will Shape The Future Of Gaming.

By Dan Robitzski

Eight months after the fitness app Strava revealed the location of military bases in Syria, the Pentagon has banned GPS tracking on wearables.
Prosthetics and Devices

The Pentagon Tells Soldiers To Stop Sharing Their Locations With Apps

By Dan Robitzski

Inventing America takes travelers to Governor's Island, New York back to the 17th century via an augmented reality simulation that covers the whole island.
Virtual Reality

Augmented Reality Recreates A New York City Not Seen for Centuries

By Dan Robitzski

You Can’t Legally 3D Print Guns Quite Yet
Future Society

You Can’t Legally 3D Print Guns Quite Yet

By Dan Robitzski

On Tuesday July 31, Mars will come closer to Earth than it will for another 269 years. Take a look now before it moves on.
Mars

Stop And Look Up: Mars Is Super Close To Earth Right Now

By Dan Robitzski

Google unveiled the Enterprise Edition of Google Glass. Instead of unleashing it on the public, they think it will help factory workers.
Google

Google Glass Is Back, And May Have Finally Found A Place It Belongs

By Dan Robitzski

AI Coaches Are Here To Unleash Your Inner LeBron
Artificial Intelligence

AI Coaches Are Here To Unleash Your Inner LeBron

By Dan Robitzski

Augur, a decentralized app where people wager crypto on world events, has given a platform for an assassination marketplace
Blockchain

The Rise Of An “Assassination Marketplace” Shows The Dark Side of Decentralized Networks

By Dan Robitzski

It’s Not Uber’s Fault That NYC’s Public Transportation Sucks
Advanced Transport

It’s Not Uber’s Fault That NYC’s Public Transportation Sucks

By Dan Robitzski

Virtual Reality Has Reached A “Tipping Point.” It’s Officially Here to Stay.
Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Has Reached A “Tipping Point.” It’s Officially Here to Stay.

By Dan Robitzski

That major pledge against building autonomous killing machines is a great start, but it has some glaring holes in what it covers.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Leaders Who Pledged Not To Build Autonomous Killing Machines Are Ignoring The Real Problem

By Dan Robitzski

we have only studied about 16 percent of the moon rocks taken during the Apollo missions. NASA's Apollo curator keeps them for future generations.
Moon

Most Of NASA’s Moon Rocks Remain Untouched By Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

we may see manned missions to the moon. Science, politics, and celestial cash grabs are at the forefront of why people want to go back.
Moon

3 Reasons Why We Might Return to The Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Recently-acquired Facebook documents reveal what it would take to get kicked off facebook for hates peech or propaganda.
Future Society

Here’s What It Takes to Get Kicked off Facebook (Hint: It’s A Lot)

By Dan Robitzski

The next movie you watch could have been performed, edited, and recommended by artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Automating Hollywood. Now, Art Can Thrive.

By Dan Robitzski

Electric Cars Are Too Important For Elon Musk to Put at Risk
Elon Musk

Electric Cars Are Too Important For Elon Musk to Put at Risk

By Dan Robitzski

Qbits for Cubists: Robots Made These Incredible Works of Fine Art
Artificial Intelligence

Qbits for Cubists: Robots Made These Incredible Works of Fine Art

By Dan Robitzski