More from Kristin Houser (Page 27)

Researcher presents ways hackers could manipulate today's SATCOM to affect the aviation, maritime, and military industries.

Hackers Find Earth’s Satellite Communication Systems Aren’t All That Secure

By Kristin Houser

NASA’s New Space Probe Will Venture Closer to the Sun Than Any Craft Before It

Science & Energy

NASA Just Launched A New Space Probe That Will Venture Closer to the Sun Than Any Craft Before It

By Kristin Houser

QTrobot, a two-foot-tall humanoid robot, could be useful in teaching children with autism valuable social skills, according to a new study.

Robots and Machines

Interacting With This Therapy Bot Can Help Children With Autism Perfect Their Social Skills

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, astronomers have discovered a coronal mass ejection (CME), a spewing of plasma and energy, from a star that's not the Earth's Sun.

Science & Energy

Scientists Observe a Star That Spews Plasma — And It’s Not Our Sun

By Kristin Houser

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech outlining the first steps toward the establishment of a new military branch, the Space Force.

Here’s How President Trump and His VP Plan to Get Their Space Force

By Kristin Houser

Open-source tool Social Mapper can help white hat hackers keep up with the black hats, but also has the potential to create more of the latter.

Facial Recognition Tool That Tracks People Across Social Media Now Available to Hackers

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an AI than can find scientists that deserve (but don't have) Wikipedia pages, helping close the site's gender gap.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Shining a Spotlight on Women Scientists That Were Previously Overlooked

By Kristin Houser

Three Signs Google Is Turning to the Dark Side

Three Signs Google Is Turning to the Dark Side

By Kristin Houser

There Is Literally No Logical Reason The US Should Allow *More* Uses for Asbestos

There Is Literally No Logical Reason The US Should Allow More Uses for Asbestos

By Kristin Houser

A Robot Just Operated On A Human Eye for the First Time

Health & Medicine

A Robot Just Operated On A Human Eye for the First Time

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: Tech CEO Pitches Boeing a Flying Train Concept

Advanced Transport

The Digest: Tech CEO Pitches Boeing a Flying Train Concept

By Kristin Houser

We Have No Idea What Having Sex With Robots Might Do to Us

We Have No Idea What Having Sex With Robots Might Do to Us

By Kristin Houser

An Injection of Salt in Your Eardrum Might Save You From a Lifetime of Hearing Loss

Health & Medicine

An Injection of Salt in Your Eardrum Might Save You From a Lifetime of Hearing Loss

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: Ripple Is Giving Away Its Cryptocurrency to Get People to Use It

The Digest: Ripple Is Giving Away Its Cryptocurrency to Get People to Use It

By Kristin Houser

Why Live on Earth When You Can Live in a Hole on Mars? No, Really.

Why Live on Earth When You Can Live in a Hole on Mars? No, Really.

By Kristin Houser

Even if we meet the emissions limits set by the Paris Agreement, natural feedback processes could create "Hothouse Earth" climate conditions.

No Existing Policies Will Be Enough To Prevent A Future “Hothouse Earth”

By Kristin Houser

Geoengineering Would Hurt Earth’s Crops More Than It Would Help Them, Says Study

Geoengineering Would Hurt Earth’s Crops More Than It Would Help Them, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

Some Americans Will Get to Vote via Blockchain This November

Some Americans Will Get to Vote via Blockchain This November

By Kristin Houser

Researchers discover a network of Twitter bots designed to perpetuate a cryptocurrency scam while conducting a study on identifying online bots.

Researchers Inadvertently Discover Crypto Scam Involving 15,000 Twitter Bots

By Kristin Houser

A number of scientifically sound studies all reached different conclusions when trying to figure out the universe's expansion rate.

Figuring out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding Might Require a New Type of Physics

By Kristin Houser

The FCC hack from May 2017 wasn't really a hack, says FCC chairman Ajit Pai, who now blames the misunderstanding on an Obama-era hire.

That Hack of the FCC’s Comment Section Last Year? It Never Actually Happened, Agency Admits

By Kristin Houser

Waymo’s Phoenix Project Could Tell Us If Self-Driving Cars Can Improve Public Transportation

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Phoenix Project Could Tell Us If Self-Driving Cars Can Improve Public Transportation

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Has a New Plan to Deter Would-Be Hackers

Science & Energy

The U.S. Has a New Plan to Deter Would-Be Hackers

By Kristin Houser

Someone Just Used a Drone to Try to Assassinate a World Leader

Someone Just Used a Drone to Try to Assassinate a World Leader

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Is Asking Banks to Share Data on Customers’ Spending Habits

Facebook Is Asking Banks to Share Data on Customers’ Spending Habits

By Kristin Houser

Human volunteers were less likely to turn off humanoid robot Nao when it protested, particularly when the outburst of emotion was unexpected.

Humanoid Robots Can Manipulate Our Emotions When We Least Expect It

By Kristin Houser

The city of Cupertino is hoping Apple will be willing to heavily subsidize the construction of a hyperloop to ease the city's transportation woes.

Apple May Prove Powerful Enough to Get the U.S. Its First Hyperloop

By Kristin Houser

Starbucks is teaming up with ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, on a new crypto platform called Bakkt.

Starbucks’s New Crypto Platform Could Bring Bitcoin Into the Mainstream

By Kristin Houser

The Elon Musk that chatted with investors and reporters during the Q2 2018 earnings call was a far cry from the erratic Musk we've come to know.

Rising Stocks Show Tesla Investors Are Warming up to Musk’s Cool Attitude

By Kristin Houser

According to new NASA estimates, Elon Musk's SpaceX will be ready for a crewed test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft in April 2019.

SpaceX Will Be Ready to Transport Humans in April 2019, NASA Estimates

By Kristin Houser

The new Conservative government of Ontario has decided to end the city's basic income trial two years early, citing the high cost.

Universal Basic Income

Ontario Ends Its Three-Year Basic Income Trial After Just One Year

By Kristin Houser

Two teams of researchers have used gene-editing tool CRISPR to decrease the number of chromosomes in baker's yeast from 16 to one or two.

Science & Energy

Engineers Use CRISPR to Create A New Species With Just One Chromosome

By Kristin Houser

The cod population in the Gulf of Alaska is at the lowest levels ever recording, which is wreaking havoc on the state's economy.

Science & Energy

A Warm Water Mass Called “The Blob” Is Killing Alaska’s Cod

By Kristin Houser

Think You Could Do More if You Just Had an Extra Hand? You’re Probably Right.

Prosthetics and Devices

Think You Could Do More if You Just Had an Extra Hand? You’re Probably Right.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers successfully transplanted lab-grown lungs into four pigs, with none of the animals rejecting the lungs within two months of the surgery.

Health & Medicine

We Can Now Successfully Transplant Lab-Grown Lungs in Pigs

By Kristin Houser

Through a series of experiments, UK researchers identify abiogenesis zones around stars, helping narrow down the list of planets that could form life.

Science & Energy

Scientists Shed New Light on What Life-Producing Planets Require

By Kristin Houser

Leaked documents reveal Google's plan to launch a censored search engine in China, a nation that strictly monitors the content its citizens can access.

Google’s Censored Chinese Search Engine Shows It’s No Longer Afraid of U.S. Backlash

By Kristin Houser

automation artificial intelligence robotics

Experts Answer: Who Is Actually Going to Suffer From Automation?

By Kristin Houser

A new NASA-funded study drawing on 20 years of research says we simply can't terraform Mars using technology available today.

Scientists Say We Can’t Terraform Mars. Elon Musk Says We Can.

By Kristin Houser

OpenAi just unveiled Dactyl, an AI system trained to control a robot hand using the same algorithms used to train computer game playing AIs.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”

By Kristin Houser

Uber just announced plans to shutter its self-driving truck division, at least temporarily, while it focuses on its self-driving cars.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Uber Kills Self-Driving Truck Division, Clearing the Road for Tesla

By Kristin Houser

The TSA's Quiet Skies program instructs teams of armed air marshals to track U.S. citizens through airports and aboard domestic flights.

For TSA’s “Quiet Skies” Program, Air Marshals Followed Travelers’ Every Move

By Kristin Houser

The latest clean transportation offering from Elon Musk is the Tesla surfboard, a $1,500 limited edition short board that sold out almost immediately.

Tesla Launches A $1,500 Surfboard, Sells out Almost Immediately

By Kristin Houser

Dentists Are Now Using Tech to Monitor Patients’ Stress Levels

Dentists Are Now Using Tech to Monitor Patients’ Stress Levels

By Kristin Houser

23andMe has signed an agreement to no longer parter with anyone but British pharmaceutical company GSK on any drug discovery projects.

Science & Energy

23andMe is Teaming Up With A Pharma Company. You Shouldn’t Be Surprised.

By Kristin Houser

Virgin Galactic successfully completed the third supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane.

Surprise! Virgin Galactic Just Did A Test Launch of Its SpaceShipTwo Spaceplane

By Kristin Houser

Amazon's facial recognition software is far from perfect, an ACLU experiment shows. Maybe Amazon should stop marketing it to government agencies.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Rekognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress to Mugshots

By Kristin Houser

Australian researchers have created a purposefully biased AI to illustrate the problems such systems could cause in the future.

Artificial Intelligence

The “Biometric Mirror” Judges You The Way We’ve Taught It To: With Bias

By Kristin Houser

Congressional lawmakers just agreed on a defense bill for 2019 that does not include funding for the establishment of a space force.

Trump’s Space Force Isn’t in Congress’ 2019 Spending Bill

By Kristin Houser

After internet monitors repeatedly removed an article detailing the unsafe vaccines in China, citizens added it to the Ethereum blockchain.

Chinese Citizens Are Using Blockchain to Warn Each Other of Unsafe Vaccines

By Kristin Houser

According to Europe's highest court, gene-edited crops are genetically modified organisms and should be regulated the same way as GMOs.

Science & Energy

Gene-Edited Crops Are Officially GMOs, European Court Rules

By Kristin Houser

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars

By Kristin Houser

By adding a seemingly harmless pop up to popular BlockExplorer site Etherscan, a hacker may have prevented a far more nefarious hack from taking place.

Hacker Exposes Security Vulnerability in Popular Cryptocurrency Site Etherscan

By Kristin Houser

The Department of Homeland Security revealed in a briefing that Russians hacked U.S. utility companies

Yes, Russians Hacked U.S. Electric Companies, Homeland Security Confirms

By Kristin Houser

Chinese officials are determined to bring to justice Changsheng Bio-Tech, a manufacturer selling unsafe vaccines for rabies and DPT.

Health & Medicine

China Is Cracking Down on a Company Selling Unsafe Vaccines

By Kristin Houser

DARPA has announced a new program focused on funding projects focused on third wave AI, the kind that can understand and explain its answers.

Artificial Intelligence

DARPA Is Funding Research Into AI That Can Explain What It’s “Thinking”

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military's AI center will help the nation's armed forces develop and implement the latest in artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

U.S. Military Declares Mandate on AI: “We Want to Be the Threat”

By Kristin Houser

Tesla's refund request to suppliers is raising eyebrows in the financial world, with some calling it "ludicrous" and "desperate."

Tesla Is Reportedly Asking Suppliers to Refund Payments To Have More Cash On Hand

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers have created nanobots that can travel via an aerosol spray, potentially opening up a new field in robotics.

MIT Researchers Create an Aerosol Spray Loaded With Nanobots

By Kristin Houser

VR horror game Bring to Light adjusts gameplay based on feedback from a heart rate monitor

Virtual Reality

This VR Horror Game Is Exactly as Scary as Your Body Can Handle

By Kristin Houser

Federal Agencies Propose Major Changes to Endangered Species Act

Federal Agencies Propose Major Changes to Endangered Species Act

By Kristin Houser

WhatsApp has announced plans to update how users forward content, presumably in an effort to address mob violence in India.

WhatsApp Updates Controls in India in an Effort to Thwart Mob Violence

By Kristin Houser

Malta has announced plans to created the world's first decentralized stock exchange

Malta Plans to Create the World’s First Decentralized Stock Exchange

By Kristin Houser

Blue Origin launched another New Shepard rocket, successfully engaging its capsule's emergency motor after separation.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard Rocket Aces Important Test

By Kristin Houser

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