More from Kristin Houser (Page 13)

A Defense News investigation has revealed many problems with the military's in-development F-35 fighter jet that had previously gone unreported.

US Military’s Trillion-Dollar F-35 Fighter Jet Is Almost Unflyable

By Kristin Houser

A researcher has discovered a new phase known as the "cold quasar" that could upend our understanding of galaxies' lifecycle.

Science & Energy

“Cold Quasar” Discovery Sheds Light on Galactic Death

By Kristin Houser

Tyson Foods — one of the world's largest and most controversial meat producers — is launching a line of alt-meat products.

Tyson Foods’ Alt-Meat Nuggets Will Hit Grocery Stores This Summer

By Kristin Houser

A House committee has decided that the U.S. does need a space-focused military branch, but that it should be called the Space Corps and not the Space Force.

House Committee Kills “Space Force” in Favor of “Space Corps”

By Kristin Houser

Science posters don't always work as intended, and that's because they suck — but a student in Michigan has a plan to change that.

Science & Energy

Science Posters Suck. So Let’s Reinvent Them.

By Kristin Houser

San Francisco hopes an AI-powered tool that redacts information from police reports will eliminate racial bias from the suspect-charging process.

Artificial Intelligence

San Francisco Is Using AI to Try to Make Courts Less Racist

By Kristin Houser

Drones can now dodge objects thrown at them thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence and event cameras, an advanced type of sensor.

Watch This Drone Expertly Dodge Stuff Thrown at It

By Kristin Houser

A member of the quickly disbanded Google AI ethics board says lawmakers need to approach regulating the company like it's a "world power."

Professor: Lawmakers Must Treat Google Like A “World Power”

By Kristin Houser

Uber Air has unveiled the first full-scale mock-up of one of the flying taxis it hopes to have ferrying passengers across the skies by 2023.

Advanced Transport

Uber Air Offers First Look Inside Its Flying Taxi

By Kristin Houser

On August 13, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will make history by delivering the first ever DJ set from space for promoters BigCityBeats.

ISS Astronaut Will Deliver First DJ Set From Space

By Kristin Houser

A male college student used Snapchat's gender-swap filter in the hope of catching someone looking for an underage hook-up online — and it worked.

Gender-Swap Filter Fools Cop Who Tried to Prey on Underage Girl

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. in engaged in space warfare, according to CNN's Jim Sciutto, who argues in a new book that Russia and China have already deployed space weapons.

New Book: The US Is in a “Shadow War.” Space Is the Battlefield.

By Kristin Houser

Enzymes found in the human gut can efficiently transform blood type A into O, the universal donor kind that is in high demand.

Health & Medicine

Study: Gut Microbes Transform Type A Into Universal Donor Blood

By Kristin Houser

Doctors might soon prescribe insurance-covered sex robots to patients, says one clinical psychologist — and it could spell the end of civilization.

Expert: Doctors Will Soon Prescribe Sex Robots to Patients

By Kristin Houser

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has stepped up to clarify what President Donald Trump meant by his confusing Moon tweet.

NASA Head: Trump’s Moon Tweet Doesn’t Change Anything

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an AI that can clone a person's voice, including their speech patterns — and it could make audio deepfakes harder to detect.

Artificial Intelligence

Alarming AI Clones Both a Person’s Voice and Their Speech Patterns

By Kristin Houser

NASA is livestreaming a video feed from the JPL clean room where it's currently assembling and testing the Mars 2020 rover.

Watch Live as NASA Builds the Mars 2020 Rover

By Kristin Houser

The USDA has found gentically modified wheat growing in a field in Washington state — and it's not the first time the GMO plant has cropped up unexpectedly.

Science & Energy

GMO Wheat Escapes Lab, Grows in the Wild

By Kristin Houser

U.S. President Donald Trump's puzzling Moon tweet instructing NASA to focus on Mars could have something to do with a Fox anchor's comments.

Trump: “NASA Should NOT be Talking About Going to the Moon”

By Kristin Houser

US Gov Now Collecting Social Media Handles of Visa Applicants

US Gov Now Collecting Social Media Handles of Visa Applicants

By Kristin Houser

The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to allow U.S. phone carriers to block robocalls by default.

Robots and Machines

Your Phone Carrier Can Now Automatically Block All Robocalls

By Kristin Houser

An experimental study is exploiting so-called "jumping genes" that selfishly copy and paste themselves throughout the genome to improve CRISPR.

Science & Energy

Experimental CRISPR Study Exploits “Selfish” Genes

By Kristin Houser

Startup New Future Transportation has unveiled the design for its Aska, a futuristic-looking flying car with a 40-foot wingspan.

Advanced Transport

Startup Unveils Freakish-Looking Flying Car With Folding Wings

By Kristin Houser

To create a convincing deepfake video, all you have to do is rewrite a clip's text transcript, thanks to this terrifying new algorithm.

Artificial Intelligence

Terrifying Deepfake AI Alters Vids to Match Your Transcript Edits

By Kristin Houser

A new algorithm can decipher babies’ cries, telling if they're due to something "normal," such as hunger or sleepiness, or a sign of distress.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Built an AI That Translates Babies’ Cries

By Kristin Houser

Google co-founder Sergey Brin needs engineers to work on his massive $150 million blimp, which could deliver supplies on humanitarian missions.

Google’s Co-Founder Is Building a Gargantuan $150 Million Blimp

By Kristin Houser

New EU legislation requires electric vehicles (EVs) to include Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems (AVAS) that make noise to alert pedestrians of their approach.

Electric Vehicles

New Law Requires Electric Vehicles to Make Noise at Slow Speeds

By Kristin Houser

New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics

New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers has produced the most detailed black hole simulations ever — and then used them to solve a 40+ year mystery.

Science & Energy

Scientists Produce Most Precise Black Hole Simulations Ever

By Kristin Houser

Oddly human-looking robot artist Ai-Da is about to launch its first exhibition — and the bot's artworks have already sold for more than $1.2 million.

Artificial Intelligence

Creepy Human-Like Robot’s Art Is Selling for Astronomical Prices

By Kristin Houser

Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert told the audience at re:MARS he thinks the company's SpotMini robodogs could one day battle for our entertainment.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics CEO Wants Its Robodogs to Fight Each Other

By Kristin Houser

China's rocket launch from a barge in the Yellow Sea on Wednesday makes it just the third nation to successfully complete an offshore launch.

Watch China Launch a Rocket From Sea for the First Time

By Kristin Houser

Oakland has followed Denver's lead, becoming just the second city in the U.S. to decriminalize magic mushrooms and other entheogenic plants and fungi.

Health & Medicine

Magic Mushrooms Decriminalized in Second US City

By Kristin Houser

Here Are Some Headlines for This Incredibly Boring Robot Video

Here Are Some Headlines for This Incredibly Boring Robot Video

By Kristin Houser

An artist created a neural network and programmed it to generate a human-looking face. She then had the AI forget it, neuron by neuron.

Artificial Intelligence

Watch an AI Die, Neuron by Neuron

By Kristin Houser

Tesla has been selling its zero-emissions credits to GM and Fiat Chrysler, essentially giving them a pass to continue polluting the environment.

GM, Fiat Chrysler Caught Buying “Right to Pollute” From Tesla

By Kristin Houser

Not only are quantum jumps predictable, they can also be reversed, according to a new Yale study that could benefit quantum computing research.

Scientists Predict Quantum Jumps, Turning Physics on Its Head

By Kristin Houser

Professor Diana Pasulka sees the growing human belief in aliens as mirroring what happens when a religion begins to take shape.

Professor: Belief in Aliens Could Replace Traditional Religion

By Kristin Houser

An airline and university are teaming up to develop the Flying-V, a strange new airplane design that puts passenger seats in the plane's wings.

Advanced Transport

New “Flying-V” Plane Puts Passenger Seats in the Wings

By Kristin Houser

Russian Tinder users could now having their sexts or explicit pictures turned over to the nation's government upon request.

Russia Demands Tinder Turn Over Users’ Sexts, Pics

By Kristin Houser

"Brain Talker," a computer chip designed specifically for use in brain-computer interfaces, could help the devices finally reach the mainstream.

Prosthetics and Devices

China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading

By Kristin Houser

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.

Prosthetics and Devices

New Gene-Editing Method Could Lead To “Creation of a Super-Baby”

By Kristin Houser

$Chinese researchers say that replacing water with atmosphere-polluting carbon dioxide could make fracking more eco-friendly.$

Fracking With CO2 Instead of Water Is Greener, Say Researchers

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took a break from studying the surface of Mars to look at the clouds floating in the Red Planet's atmosphere.

See Pics of Martian Clouds Snapped From the Planet’s Surface

By Kristin Houser

A fungus genetically modified to produce a spider toxin that quickly kills mosquitoes could help end the spread of malaria.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Splice Spider Gene Into Fungus to Kill Mosquitoes

By Kristin Houser

New York's State Education Department has asked a public school district to delay its trial of a facial recognition system on students and staff.

Facial recognition

State Attempts to Nix Public School’s Facial Recognition Plans

By Kristin Houser

A Brooklyn wholesaler has been charged with selling the U.S. military gear made in China that could have endangered troops' lives.

Scammed: US Military Spent $20M on Fake Gear Made in China

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a tool for analyzing marijuana strains on a genetic level, and it could ensure buyers know exactly what they're purchasing.

Gene Sequencing Could Ensure You Get the Kind of Weed You Pay For

By Kristin Houser

As of Monday, a kilogram is now defined by the relationship between energy and mass as opposed to a metal cylinder in France.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Redefined the Kilogram

By Kristin Houser

Ferrari's first plug-in hybrid, the 986-horsepower SF90 Stradale, is the most powerful production car the company has ever released.

Advanced Transport

Ferrari’s Most Powerful Production Car Ever Is a Plug-in Hybrid

By Kristin Houser

A lobbyist for Chevron was caught asking the company's retirees to oppose legislation supporting electric cars in Arizona.

Advanced Transport

Big Oil Operative Gets Busted Secretly Undermining Electric Cars

By Kristin Houser

The buyer of a $85 million penthouse in Manhattan will get a slew of perks to go with it, including a Hamptons mansion, a yacht, and two tickets to space.

This Luxury Apartment Comes With Two Free Tickets to Space

By Kristin Houser

Physicists created a sonic black hole in the lab and then took its temperature — and the measurement seems to confirm a prediction made by Stephen Hawking.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Took the Temperature of a Lab-Made Black Hole

By Kristin Houser

Amazon's new privacy updates for its Alexa voice assistant are a step in the right direction, but the company still has a lot of ground to make up.

Artificial Intelligence

You Can Now Tell Alexa to Delete Everything You Said Today

By Kristin Houser

After using AI to analyze "junk" DNA, a Princeton-led team concluded that mutations within the noncoding DNA can cause autism.

Princeton Scientists: Mutations in “Junk” DNA Can Cause Autism

By Kristin Houser

Pet cloning results in animals with shorter life spans and many more health problems than non-cloned animals, according to one animal ecology professor.

Science & Energy

Pet Cloning Is Getting Cheaper — but It’s Still Horrifying

By Kristin Houser

The MOONRISE project plans to send a small laser system to the Moon in 2021, testing the device's ability to melt Moon dust into a usable building material.

Laser Project Aims to Melt Moon Dust Into a Lunar Base

By Kristin Houser

Google's multi-year, multi-million dollar research project into cold fusion reached a disheartening conclusion: there's no evidence the phenomenon exists.

Google’s $10 Million Cold Fusion Project Has Failed

By Kristin Houser

Astronauts aboard the ISS used CRISPR in space for the first time, making edits in yeast's genome to mimic radiation-caused damage.

Astronauts Use CRISPR in Space for the First Time Ever

By Kristin Houser

About 10 second after launch, a massive bolt of lightning struck a Russian Soyuz 2-1b rocket — a remarkable sight captured on video by numerous spectators.

Watch Lightning Strike a Rocket as It Launches

By Kristin Houser

To improve mosque security, the Keep Mosques Safe initiative is financing the installation of an AI-powered security system in mosques worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

Security Company to Install Gun-Detecting AI in Mosques Worldwide

By Kristin Houser

People interested in 3D-printed guns are sharing the files needed to build the firearms anonymously online, according to a troubling Wired story.

Anonymous Group of 3D-Printed Gun Makers Is Spreading Online

By Kristin Houser

Thousands of preschools are using a robot named Walklake that looks for signs of illness by scanning the faces and hands of students.

Health & Medicine

This Robot Scans Preschoolers’ Faces Daily for Signs of Sickness

By Kristin Houser

Comcast is developing a healthcare device that will monitor everything from how often a person visits the bathroom to the amount of time they spend in bed.

Health & Medicine

Comcast’s New Smart Sensor Will Count How Many Times You Pee

By Kristin Houser

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