More from Kristin Houser (Page 16)

Boston Dynamics has debuted the version of its SpotMini robot dog that it plans to actually sell to consumers — but it has yet to announce a price tag.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Unveils SpotMini You’ll Actually Be Able to Buy

By Kristin Houser

Nick Bostrom, author of "The Simulation Argument," says humanity needs to embrace mass surveillance to avoid the destruction of civilization.

Professor: Total Surveillance Is the Only Way to Save Humanity

By Kristin Houser

Infamous tech entrepreneur John McAfee says he's going unmask Bitcoin's creator, but the clues he's shared so far do little to narrow the field.

John McAfee Vows to Reveal Bitcoin’s Creator

By Kristin Houser

Scientists finally detect helium hydride, a combination of helium and hydrogen, thought to be the first molecule to form in the universe.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Finally Found the Universe’s First Type of Molecule

By Kristin Houser

The legal industry isn't ready for AI-generated music, leading to all sorts of new questions about copyrights in the age of creative machines.

Artificial Intelligence

Expert: AI-Generated Music Is A “Total Legal Clusterf*ck”

By Kristin Houser

When the Notre Dame blaze got too dangerous for humans to continue battling, the Paris Fire Brigade called in a firefighting robot named Colossus.

See the “Colossus” Firefighting Robot That Helped Save Notre Dame

By Kristin Houser

The Boring Company's Loop project connecting Washington, D.C., and Baltimore has moved one step closer to breaking ground.

Elon Musk’s “Loop Project” Is One Step Closer to Breaking Ground

By Kristin Houser

Researchers say they've cured 10 infants born with SCID-X1, also known as "bubble boy" disease, using an HIV-assisted gene therapy.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Gene-Edited HIV to Cure “Bubble Boy” Disease

By Kristin Houser

The creation of biased AIs is linked to the tech industry's overwhelmingly white, male workforce, according to a new report.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts: To Solve AI’s Bias Problem, Hire Fewer White Men

By Kristin Houser

A team from Yale created a system that let them breathe new life into pig brains that had been removed from the animals' skulls.

Science & Energy

Yale Scientists Kept Decapitated Pigs’ Brains Alive for 36 Hours

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have discovered that one subregion of the Milky Way is far more efficient at star formation than the others — and they don't know why.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Mysterious Star-Forming Factory In Milky Way

By Kristin Houser

The first human CRISPR trial in the U.S. has officially begun, with a UPenn team using the technology to treat two cancer patients.

Prosthetics and Devices

The US Has Officially Started Using CRISPR on Humans

By Kristin Houser

By extending astronaut Christina Koch's space mission to 328 days, NASA hopes to glean new insights into the impact of longterm spaceflight on humans.

NASA Announces Plan to Keep Astronaut in Space for 328 Days

By Kristin Houser

SpaceIL has announced plans to build Beresheet 2, a sequel to the spacecraft behind the company's first failed Moon landing.

After Failed Moon Landing, Israel Vows to Try Again

By Kristin Houser

The collective attention span of humanity is getting shorter as the internet and technology bring us a near-constant supply of new information.

Scientists: Tech Is Giving Humanity a Shorter Attention Span

By Kristin Houser

A dairy farm has outfitted 50 cows with 5G-connected smart collars that allow the animals to be milked whenever they want.

5G Collars Let Cows Choose When They Want to Be Milked

By Kristin Houser

The Stratolaunch, the world's biggest airplane, just completed its first test flight, putting us one step closer to cheaper launches into space.

Advanced Transport

See the World’s Biggest Airplane Nail Its First Test Flight

By Kristin Houser

A Harvard physicist has proven that wormhole travel is possible, but rather than being a shortcut, it'd be a longer path between two points in space.

Quantum Physics

Harvard Physicist: Wormhole Travel Is Possible, but It’s Not Fast

By Kristin Houser

A language professor created the black hole's name, Pōwehi, by combining two words from an 18th-century Hawaiian chant called the Kumulipo.

Science & Energy

The M87 Black Hole Now Has an Epic Name

By Kristin Houser

Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus just shipped tens of thousands of Touch controllers bearing hidden messages.

Hidden Messages Suggest That Facebook Sees User Privacy as a Joke

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX will provide launch services for NASA's DART mission, which is designed to test a plan for preventing an asteroid from hitting Earth.

NASA Asks SpaceX to Help It Save Earth From Incoming Asteroids

By Kristin Houser

One of the scientists behind an experiment that gave monkeys human DNA, thereby making them smarter, has defended the controversial study to CNN.

Science & Energy

Chinese Scientist Defends Splicing Human Brain Gene Into Monkeys

By Kristin Houser

An employee shares his experience working with Walmart robots, which are supposed to make his job easier but instead add to his workload.

Artificial Intelligence

This Grouchy Employee Hates Walmart’s New Floor-Scrubbing Robots

By Kristin Houser

A team from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shared an image that puts the first black hole photo into stunning context.

Science & Energy

The First Black Hole Photo Is Even More Amazing When You Zoom Out

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX successfully landed all three of its Falcon Heavy boosters during the rocket's second launch ever, marking a new milestone in reusable rocketry.

SpaceX Milestone: Company Lands Three Falcon Heavy Boosters

By Kristin Houser

A video of mice in microgravity reveals that the animals quickly adapted to their off-world conditions, running, eating, and cleaning themselves.

Space Station Mice Learned to Propel Themselves in Zero Gravity

By Kristin Houser

Katie Bouman, a 29-year-old computer scientist, led the development of the algorithm that made the first black hole image possible.

Science & Energy

We Wouldn’t Have the First Black Hole Image Without Katie Bouman

By Kristin Houser

Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA funds projects that go "to the edge of science fiction, but not over."

NASA Is Funding the Development of 18 Bizarre New Projects

By Kristin Houser

A Greek couple just gave birth to a three-parent baby, the first conceived as part of a clinical trial to treat infertility.

Health & Medicine

Infertile Couple Gives Birth to “Three-Parent Baby”

By Kristin Houser

A new Bloomberg piece shared the experiences of Amazon workers tasked with listening to Alexa recordings, and what they hear isn't always mundane.

Amazon Workers Listen to Your Alexa Conversations, Then Mock Them

By Kristin Houser

SpaceIL's Moon lander, Beresheet, is expected to touch down on the lunar surface on Thursday, landing Israeli a place in the history books.

The Israeli Moon Lander Is About to Touch Down

By Kristin Houser

Some people are adept at forecasting, predicting the likelihood of future events, and a new contest aims to suss them out.

Some People Are Exceptionally Good at Predicting the Future

By Kristin Houser

A new story reveals how Chinese live-streaming company Inke uses a combination of human moderators and AI to facilitate government censorship.

China Is Trying to Scrub Bikinis and Smoking From the Internet

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have released the first image of a black hole, and it looks like they expected based on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Science & Energy

The World’s First Black Hole Image Vindicates Einstein’s Theory

By Kristin Houser

Electrically stimulating the brains of people in their 60s and 70s allowed them to perform as well on working memory tasks as 20-somethings.

Zapping Elderly People’s Brains Supercharges Their Working Memory

By Kristin Houser

A new Tesla safety report reveals an increase in Tesla crashes, but engaging Autopilot cuts the likelihood of a fender bender.

Tesla Says Autopilot Is Statistically Safer Than a Human Driver

By Kristin Houser

Cannabis legalization is picking up steam across the nation. Here are seven ways the future stands to benefit from ending the war on weed.

Seven Ways Cannabis Legalization Will Make the Future Better

By Kristin Houser

The emissions produced by streaming music far exceed the environmental cost of listening to music via physical mediums, according to a new study.

Science & Energy

Here’s How Streaming Music Is Killing the Planet

By Kristin Houser

A new therapy that involves injecting tumors with two immune stimulants essentially transforms the growths into "cancer vaccine factories."

New Therapy Transforms Tumors Into “Cancer Vaccine Factories”

By Kristin Houser

The agency tasked with guiding China's economic development has suggested the nation ban crypto mining — and the move could have global implications.

Chinese Authorities Want to Ban Crypto Mining

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have used Type 1 CRISPR-Cas3, which "shreds" DNA, in human cells for the first time, giving scientists a powerful new gene-editing tool.

Researchers Use CRISPR “Shredder” on Human DNA for First Time

By Kristin Houser

Passerine's drone uses its bird-like legs to jump into the air, overcoming a design flaw that plagues many other fixed-winged aircraft.

This Drone Takes off by Leaping With Bird-Inspired Legs

By Kristin Houser

A newly unveiled Energizer smartphone supposedly contains "the highest capacity battery ever seen in a smartphone" — but it's also incredibly big.

Robots and Machines

Energizer’s Brick-Like New Phone Has a Battery That Lasts 50 Days

By Kristin Houser

Experts tell CNN they envision a future in which scammers use voice-mimicking technology to make robocalls sound like someone a target knows personally.

Artificial Intelligence

Prepare for Robocall Hell, Where Scam Bots Pretend to Be Your Mom

By Kristin Houser

A facial recognition trial focused on New York's Robert F. Kennedy Bridge didn't correctly identify a single person's face.

Facial recognition

New York’s Facial Recognition Trial Was a Complete Failure

By Kristin Houser

The leader of Asgardia warns that world leaders must do more to prepare for a potentially life-threatening asteroid impact.

The “Space Nation” Warns That an Asteroid Could Wipe out Humanity

By Kristin Houser

A new study on cancer detection shows that dogs can sniff out the disease in blood with an extremely high degree of accuracy.

Dogs Can Sniff out Cancer With Nearly 97% Accuracy, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

A "super fungus" called Candida auris is cropping up in hospitals all across the globe, killing half the people who contract it within 90 days.

Health & Medicine

Deadly “Super Fungus” Could Be the Beginning of a Global Epidemic

By Kristin Houser

More and more Chinese citizens are opting for eco burials as a way to cope with the increasing price of grave plots due to a lack of land.

In China, Overpriced Graves Force People to Bury Dead in Jars

By Kristin Houser

Airbnb has not been consistent with how it treats hosts using hidden cameras to record guests, sometimes responding in ways that threaten guests' safety.

Airbnb Hosts Are Spying on Guests With Hidden Cameras

By Kristin Houser

The proposal to build the Tulip tower has secured the approval of the City of London Planning and Transportation Committee.

See the Bizarre Glass “Tulip” Set to Transform London’s Skyline

By Kristin Houser

"Tesla still seems unwilling to exercise any meaningful control over the conduct of its CEO."

What Elon Musk’s SEC Hearing Could Mean for Tesla’s Future

By Kristin Houser

Participants in Finland's basic income experiment reported more trust in other people, politicians, political parties, courts, and the police.

Universal Basic Income

Basic Income Made Finland’s Citizens Trust Police More

By Kristin Houser

A new HIV immunotherapy developed by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh not only kicks latent HIV cells out of hiding, but also kills them.

First-of-Its-Kind HIV Therapy Draws out the Virus, Then Kills It

By Kristin Houser

Self-driving cars will disrupt carefully constructed social contracts, claims New York University data journalism professor Meredith Broussard.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Expert: In 50 Years, Self-Driving Cars Will Be “Unthinkable”

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Fragment of Planet Orbiting Its Dead Star

By Kristin Houser

The United Nations plans to help build a prototype of a floating city concept designed to withstand the impact of climate change.

See the United Nations’ Floating, Hurricane-Ready City Concept

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX's Starship Hopper successfully completed a tethered hop, putting the company's in-development Starship one step closer to liftoff.

SpaceX’s Starship Hopper Completes First Tethered “Hop”

By Kristin Houser

The organ shortage could get worse with the advent of self-driving cars, but advances in xenotransplantation could make up the difference and then some.

Health & Medicine

The Organ Shortage Will Soon Get Worse. Animal Organs Could Help.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have implanted transparent skulls into mice to get an unimpeded look at their brain activity on a wider scale over a longer period.

Scientists Add Windows to Mice Skulls to Watch Their Brains

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have given transparent wood the ability to store and release heat, making it a promising building material of the future.

Science & Energy

This “Transparent Wood” Could Cut the Cost of Heating Your Home

By Kristin Houser

Tesla will hold an "Investor Day" on April 19 during which it will demonstrate the capabilities of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) computer.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Will Demonstrate Full Self-Driving Capabilities This Month

By Kristin Houser

Singapore's newly proposed fake news bill would force Facebook and other platforms to issue corrections alongside posts containing false statements.

New Singapore Law Would Force Facebook to Issue “Corrections”

By Kristin Houser

A futuristic restaurant plans to collect samples of diners' bodily fluids so it can create meals hyper-personalized to meet their nutritional needs.

Restaurant Analyzes Your Bodily Fluids to Make Ultra-Nutritious Sushi

By Kristin Houser

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