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Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers

It's a grim glimpse of a future in which AI is your boss — and you're disposable.

By Victor Tangermann

UK-based design agency Layer teamed up with Chinese electric car maker Nio to create a smart scooter that can learn where you want to go.
Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous Scooter Uses AI to Learn Your Favorite Routes

You didn't know you needed a smart, self-navigating scooter.

By Victor Tangermann

Next week, the European Space Agency will live-tweet an exercise where volunteers play out how a hypothetical asteroid impact might unfold.
Off-World

The European Space Agency Will Live-Tweet a Mock Asteroid Impact

The plan is to predict how things would unfold around a catastrophic asteroid impact.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created a nanofiber yarn that allows damaged muscles and tendons to continue healing even without movement restrictions.
Nanotech

New “Nanofiber Yarn” Keeps Cells Alive While Injured Tissues Heal

It could mean no more movement restrictions while recovering from muscle and tendon injuries.

By Kristin Houser

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI
Elon Musk

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI

Here's your chance to listen to Rachmaninoff's take on Adele's Someone Like You.

By Victor Tangermann

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope all-but confirms past findings that the rate of the universe's expansion has accelerated over time.
Off-World

Hubble Data: The Universe Is Expanding Faster and Faster

But we don't know why it's speeding up.

By Dan Robitzski

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award
NASA

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award

Up to eight different food crops could sustain four astronauts over 600 days on Mars.

By Victor Tangermann

The newest version of the Brave web browser lets users opt into a program that will pay them in cryptocurrency to watch ads.
Future Society

Ad-Blocking Web Browser Will Now Pay You Crypto to Watch Ads

But don't expect to be able to spend it on yourself just yet.

By Kristin Houser

A couple from Massachusetts found a way to train a neural network to tell apart real oil paintings from Dutch painter Rembrandt from imitations. 
Artificial Intelligence

A New AI Can Spot Art Forgeries

The neural network has one simple trick to identify an imitation from the real thing.

By Victor Tangermann

A lawyer argues that we should set up international agreements that would let us nuke an incoming asteroid before it's too late.
Off-World

Lawyer: Make a Rule Saying We Can Nuke Apocalyptic Asteroids

When it comes to extinction, an expert argues that political niceties should come second.

By Dan Robitzski

Lyft's Grocery Access Program offers people living in food deserts with discounted rides to grocery stores, giving them healthier food options.
Future Society

Lyft Expands Program to Help Families Get Healthy Groceries

The program is helping Americans overcome the barrier to nutritious food.

By Kristin Houser

Japan's asteroid bomb created a crater much larger than expected, leading scientists to wonder if there's something they don't know about the asteroid.
Science & Energy

New Image Shows Aftermath of Japan’s Asteroid Bomb

It turns out, the projectile packed more of a punch than anticipated.

By Kristin Houser

DARPA announced plans to invest in space-traveling droids that could repair high-altitude satellites, which would drive down the cost of new satellites.
Off-World

The Pentagon Wants to Build Satellite-Repairing Droids

Right now, high-altitude satellites have expensive redundancies in case something breaks.

By Dan Robitzski

Ukraine's newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is an actor who campaigned entirely online, using YouTube and Instagram to connect with voters.
Future Society

The New President of Ukraine Only Campaigned Online

He never once appeared in person for interviews, rallies, or speeches — but he was big on YouTube and Instagram.

By Kristin Houser

A new app built by Princeton researchers can monitor your smart speaker and other IoT devices to track how much of your info they're sending out.
Robots and Machines

New App Tells You When Your Smart Speaker Is Spying On You

"Our smart devices are watching us. It's time for us to watch them."

By Dan Robitzski

Some "podestrians," as they call themselves, are getting the logo of a local pod-housing network tattooed on their bodies.
Future Society

People Love Living in Pods So Much They’re Getting Neck Tattoos About It

These folks love living in a pod so much that they're getting neck tattoos of the pod company's logo.

By Victor Tangermann

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests
Neuroscience and Brain

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests

As players navigate virtual seas, the app determines whether they're at risk for dementia.

By Natalie Coleman

Surgeons just used the first autonomous surgery robot, a self-guiding catheter that could navigate its way through a pig's heart.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve

Surgeons just used the first-ever autonomous surgery robot in an experimental operation on a pig.

By Dan Robitzski

China is considering a law that would make deepfakes illegal, a move that shows the world power is taking the threat the videos pose very seriously.
Artificial Intelligence

China Wants to Make Deepfakes Illegal

It's concerned the videos could threaten national security.

By Kristin Houser

A cat named Pikachu, who died and was cremated in January, will be the first cat to have its ashes launched out into space.
Off-World

A Dead Cat Named Pikachu Is Getting Launched Into Space

You made it, little buddy.

By Dan Robitzski