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Rise of the Robocallers: Here’s How We’ll Avoid a Future of Scammers
Robotics

Rise of the Robocallers: Here’s How We’ll Avoid a Future of Scammers

It's a robocall arms race — scammers win, everybody else loses.

The number of AI-trained job-seekers simply isn't high enough to meet the demand for these employees, according to a new Reuters report.
Artificial Intelligence

A Shortage of Trained Job-Seekers Is Holding AI Back

AI can't reach its potential without more trained experts.

Climate Change and Gene Editing Are Spurring a Tech Boom in Agriculture
Climate Change

Climate Change and Gene Editing Are Spurring a Tech Boom in Agriculture

Looming climate disaster could mean huge profits for whoever can save the world food system.

When a cybersecurity disaster strikes, IBM's cyberpunk new vehicle can roll up like a SWAT team of hackers, screech to a halt and deal with the intrusion.
Cybersecurity

IBM Built a Menacing Black Truck for “Cybersecurity Incident Response”

It looks like something from "Ghost in the Shell."

Medical science has yet to invent anti-aging tech more effective than exercise and a healthy diet. But that's never stopped the super-rich from dreaming.
Prosthetics and Devices

The Quest for Immortality Could Create Two “Classes of Humans”

The powerful have tried to cheat death for millennia. Do they finally have a chance at success?

The Crop Trust has agreed to dedicate $1.4 million per year to maintaining the IRRI gene bank, the world's largest collection of rice varieties.
Science & Energy

The World’s Largest Collection of Rice Is Now Permanently Funded

We'll always have access to these 135,000+ varieties of rice.

Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It’s Being Stopped by the Present
Artificial Intelligence

Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It’s Being Stopped by the Present

We have three parent babies. Why can't we grow fetuses outside the body yet?

Tesla Filed a Trademark Application for “Teslaquila,” Because of Course It Did
Tesla

Tesla Filed a Trademark Application for “Teslaquila,” Because of Course It Did

It's not every day that a car company creates a liquor.

The World’s Fastest Camera Can “Freeze Time,” Show Beams of Light in Slo-Mo
Science & Energy

The World’s Fastest Camera Can “Freeze Time,” Show Beams of Light in Slo-Mo

Eat your heart out, Harold Edgerton.

Based on a new video, Boston Dynamics's SpotMini dog-like robot may be gearing up for a career as a construction site supervisor.
Boston Dynamics

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Lazy Robodog March Around a Construction Site Without Helping at All

Construction workers: Meet your next supervisor.

Disrupting the Reaper: Tech Titans’ Quest for Immortality Rages Forward
Future Society

Disrupting the Reaper: Tech Titans’ Quest for Immortality Rages Forward

Silicon Valley's war on death continues—as does the uncomfortable, spreading psychology of those rich enough to fight it.

This Weird Robot Has 32 Legs and Is Shaped Like a Lumpy Sphere
Robotics

This Weird Robot Has 32 Legs and Is Shaped Like a Lumpy Sphere

One day, it could help us explore foreign planets.

To Feed a Hungry Planet, We’re All Going to Need to Eat Less Meat
Climate Change

To Feed a Hungry Planet, We’re All Going to Need to Eat Less Meat

Consumer choice won't be enough. Governments will need to step in.

Just two percent of adults would have to upload their DNA to genealogy sites before you could use a DNA sample to find a relative of virtually anyone.
Health & Medicine

Creeps Will Soon Be Able to Find Almost Anyone on Genealogy Sites

Welcome to the genetic panopticon.

This Week in Science: Oct 6 – Oct 12
Climate Change

This Week in Science: Oct 6 – Oct 12

Climate catastrophes, saving the bees, germ banks, and more

This Week in Tech: Oct 6 – Oct 12
Space

This Week in Tech: Oct 6 – Oct 12

Autonomous vehicles, crypto scams, space capsule builders, and more

Virtual Reality Is “Reuniting” Immigrants With Their Families
Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Is “Reuniting” Immigrants With Their Families

It's the next best thing to actually visiting home.

In a newly released video, you can watch Boston Dynamics's humanoid robot Atlas parkour its way across a makeshift obstacle course.
Boston Dynamics

The Boston Dynamics Robot Atlas Is Now a Parkour Master

It leaps over logs and scales wooden platforms.

Report: It’s Easy to Hack an Entire Generation of Military Weapons
Military

Report: It’s Easy to Hack an Entire Generation of Military Weapons

We're really hoping the nuclear codes are more sophisticated than “password123.”

A robot named Pepper will appear in front of the UK Parliament next week. Nobody, including the lawmakers who arranged the interview, seem to know why.
Robotics

A Robot Is Scheduled to Testify in Front of the UK Parliament

But it's kinda unclear why.