More from Kristin Houser (Page 23)

Walmart plans to create an Intelligent Retail Lab (IRL) in its Levittown location to explore how AI could improve the shopping experience.
Artificial Intelligence

Walmart Wants to Use AI to Track Everything Happening in Its Stores

By Kristin Houser

Global fertility rates are declining, meaning we could be headed toward a society with more grandparents than grandchildren, according to a new report.
Future Society

Fertility Rates Are Now Falling in Half the World’s Countries

By Kristin Houser

NASA Certifies SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to Launch Its Top Missions
Falcon

NASA Certifies SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to Launch Its Top Missions

By Kristin Houser

In the future, sex workers in urban areas could operate out of autonomous vehicles, according to a new report by UK academics.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Joy Ride: Experts Say Future Sex Work Could Happen in Autonomous Cars

By Kristin Houser

The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) has selected 31 students to participate in a four-year-long program focused on developing AI weapons.
Artificial Intelligence

China Recruits “Patriotic” Children to Develop Its AI Weapons

By Kristin Houser

We need to do more to protect the data privacy of today's young people, who are being "datafied" from the moment they're born.
Future Society

1,300 Photos of Your Kids Will Be Online Before They’re Teens

By Kristin Houser

Startup Precise Bio is nearing human trials of its bioprinted corneas, according to a newly published report in IEEE Spectrum.
Health & Medicine

Bioprinted Corneas Are Nearly Ready for Human Trials, Says Startup

By Kristin Houser

Tesla selects Robyn Denholm, CFO and Head of Strategy at Telstra, to replace Elon Musk as the chair of its board of directors.
Elon Musk

Tesla Announces Elon Musk’s Replacement as Chair of the Board

By Kristin Houser

Roughly half the Arctic ice melt that's occurred over the past 37 years is due to natural variables, according to a new study.
Climate Change

Humans Aren’t Solely to Blame for Arctic Ice Melt, Says Report

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a bioreactor device that helps regrow limbs on frogs when worn for just 24 hours post-amputation.
Science & Energy

A Wearable Device Helped Frogs Regrow Their Amputated Limbs

By Kristin Houser

NASA posted a video to its Commercial Crew Twitter account of astronauts wearing SpaceX spacesuits while inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Put SpaceX Spacesuits to the Test

By Kristin Houser

Researchers created bionic mushrooms that could keep electricity-generating cyanobacteria alive longer than other surfaces.
Energy

We Can Now Generate Electricity From “Bionic Mushrooms”

By Kristin Houser

The Energy Spent Mining $1 of Bitcoin Could Earn You $3.40 in Gold
Bitcoin

The Energy Spent Mining $1 of Bitcoin Could Earn You $3.40 in Gold

By Kristin Houser

Chinese police are now employing gait recognition software to identify citizens, making it the latest weapon in the nation's war against privacy.
Future Society

China Can Now Identify a Citizen Based on Their Walk

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX recently proved it was ready to handle caring for an injured astronaut with a rehearsal aboard its GO Searcher recovery ship.
SpaceX

SpaceX Reveals How It Would Handle an Astronaut Emergency

By Kristin Houser

The ozone is finally healing, according to the latest version of a United Nations-backed report released every four years.
Science & Energy

Our Efforts to Heal the Ozone Layer Are Finally Paying Off

By Kristin Houser

A blue and red "Vote" poster for political apps.
Future Society

Exercise Your Civic Duty by Shaming Your Friends Into Voting

By Kristin Houser

Researchers develop a corkscrew-shaped nanobot they can guide through the dense tissue of an eyeball using a magnetic field.
Nanotech

A New Nanobot Drills Through Your Eyeball to Deliver Drugs

By Kristin Houser

General Motors just launched a contest asking the public to name its newly unveiled eBikes, which it claims will go on sale in 2019.
Science & Energy

General Motors Will Give You $10,000 to Name Its New eBike

By Kristin Houser

As of November 1, doctors across the U.S. are free to prescribe Epidiolex, a cannabis-derived drug, to epilepsy patients.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Can Now Prescribe FDA-Approved Drug Derived From Cannabis

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk shared a video walkthrough of the Boring Company's test tunnel in Hawthorne, CA, which will open on December 10.
Advanced Transport

Take a Virtual Ride Through the Boring Company’s First Tunnel

By Kristin Houser

Jaguar Land Rover is working on a system to prevent riders in autonomous vehicles (AVs) from experiencing motion sickness.
Advanced Transport

A Major Automaker Is Trying to Stop AVs From Making People Sick

By Kristin Houser

The future of architecture could be knitted concrete, a technique in which a textile serves as the basis for a concrete structure.
Science & Energy

Watch the First Knitted Concrete Structure Take Shape

By Kristin Houser

Cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns is building a blockchain city in the Nevada desert surrounding Tesla's Gigafactory.
Blockchain

A Millionaire Is Building a Blockchain Utopia in the Nevada Desert

By Kristin Houser

Researchers find clear evidence of a link between the radio waves emitted by certain cell phones and cancer in male rats.
Cancer

Your Cell Phone Could Cause Cancer — Under Very Specific Conditions

By Kristin Houser

Researchers discover that one area of the Red Planet was likely once home to dozens of Martian lakes, giving us a clue in the hunt for evidence of life.
Mars

Mars Used To Be Dotted With Life-Friendly Lakes

By Kristin Houser

Cornell researchers created a shape-shifting robot that knows when it should reconfigure itself to complete various tasks.
Robotics

Watch This Remarkable Robot Transform Itself to Tackle Various Tasks

By Kristin Houser

Automakers Hyundai and Kia will beginning adding a solar roof to select cars in 2019, allowing the Sun's energy to help power the vehicles.
Solar Power

You’ll Be Able to Buy a Car With a Solar Roof in 2019

By Kristin Houser

China is sharing its censorship and surveillance knowledge with other nations, including many in Africa, according to a new report.
Future Society

China Is Helping African Nations Spy on Their Citizens

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft's underwater data center off the cost of Scotland could be the first of many the company deploys to support its cloud technology.
Science & Energy

Microsoft’s Underwater Data Center Is Actually Working, Says CEO

By Kristin Houser

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy
Science & Energy

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy

By Kristin Houser

A slew of tech billionaires, including Bill Gates and Richard Branson, are determined to make cost-effective nuclear fusion a reality.
Science & Energy

Tech Billionaires Are Pouring Money Into Fusion Research

By Kristin Houser

A vaping detection system with AI-powered sensors is alerting officials in the U.S. and Canada to the signs of vaping in school bathrooms.
Artificial Intelligence

Schools Are Installing Bathroom Surveillance Systems to Bust Vapers

By Kristin Houser

Waymo is the first company to receive a permit to test truly driverless cars — autonomous vehicles without a safety driver — on California roads.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Will No Longer Have Safety Drivers

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Ghent University have figured out a way to store data in a powder, and it could help us move away from magnetic storage solutions.
Chemistry

We Can Now Store Data in the Form of a Powder

By Kristin Houser

JD.com's 40,000-square-meter automated warehouse is run completely by robots. The only human employs simply service the bots.
Future Society

Take a Look at the World’s First Fully Automated Warehouse

By Kristin Houser

An eye scan that provides detailed images of the retina and blood vessels could help us detect Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear.
Health & Medicine

An Eye Scan Could Detect Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms Appear

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just broke the world records for closest approach to the Sun and fastest speed relative to the Sun.
Solar Power

NASA’s Solar Probe Just Broke Two World Records

By Kristin Houser

Bitcoin mining alone has the potential to push us past the global warming limits set by the Paris Agreement, according to a new report.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mining Will Only Cause a Climate Catastrophe if We Let It

By Kristin Houser

artificial moon
Moon

There’s No Way China’s Artificial Moon Will Work, Says Expert

By Kristin Houser

Scientists want to craft an updated version of the Arecibo Message, a radio communication that marked humanity's first attempt to talk to aliens.
Exobiology

Scientists Want Your Help Crafting a Message to Aliens

By Kristin Houser

We need to do something to address the problem of air pollution, according to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Pollution

WHO Director: Air Pollution Is the “New Tobacco”

By Kristin Houser

autonomous vehicles
Self-Driving Vehicles

Ford’s Self-Driving Cars Are About to Chauffeur Your Senator

By Kristin Houser

Hoversurf's $150,000 Hover One hoverbike is now available for preorder with deliveries expected to occur in the third quarter of 2019.
Advanced Transport

You Can Now Preorder a $150,000 Hoverbike

By Kristin Houser

Tesla criminal probe
Tesla

FBI’s Tesla Criminal Probe Reportedly Centers on Model 3 Production

By Kristin Houser

healthy foods
Food

We Aren’t Growing Enough Healthy Foods to Feed Everyone on Earth

By Kristin Houser

A Stem Cell Transplant Let a Wheelchair-Bound Man Dance Again
Health & Medicine

A Stem Cell Transplant Let a Wheelchair-Bound Man Dance Again

By Kristin Houser

ozone
Science & Energy

Report Identifies China as the Source of Ozone-Destroying Emissions

By Kristin Houser

Robotics

Robot Security Guards Will Constantly Nag Spectators at the Tokyo Olympics

By Kristin Houser

Self-Driving Vehicles

People Would Rather a Self-Driving Car Kill a Criminal Than a Dog

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Your Tesla Will Earn You Money While You Sleep

By Kristin Houser

A Microdose Of “Magic Mushrooms” Could Unleash Your Creativity
Health & Medicine

A Microdose Of “Magic Mushrooms” Could Unleash Your Creativity

By Kristin Houser

Environment

These Environmentally Friendly Bricks Are Made out of Human Urine

By Kristin Houser

Robotics

Terminator 2’s Terrifying Villain Inspired a New Liquid Metal Robot

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

Here Are the Jobs of the Future That Robots Won’t Be Able to Fill

By Kristin Houser

Renewable Energy

Y Combinator Is Turning Its Attention to Carbon Removal

By Kristin Houser

Mars

NASA Thinks Its Opportunity Mars Rover Might Be Truly Kaput

By Kristin Houser

Pollution

The EU Just Voted to Completely Ban Single-Use Plastics

By Kristin Houser

Drones

These Tiny Drones Can Pull Objects 40 Times Their Weight

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

Gene Therapy Could Become as Easy to Get as a Flu Shot

By Kristin Houser

Cryptocurrency

Two Cryptocurrency Heavyweights Partner on a Dollar-Backed Stablecoin

By Kristin Houser

A map of the United States depicting the ten states where you are most likely to lose your job to a robot.
Future Society

Here Are the States Where a Robot Is Most Likely to Steal Your Job

By Kristin Houser

Climate Change

These Cameras Will Capture 1,000 Years of Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Advanced Transport

Federal Officials Put the Brakes on a Driverless School Bus

By Kristin Houser