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Drones

This Wearable Controller Lets You Pilot a Drone With Your Body

The suit cuts down learning time and improves steering.

Robotics

Rolls-Royce Is Building Cockroach-Like Robots to Fix Plane Engines

It could cut the time needed for a repair from 5 hours to 5 minutes.

Meta

Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech

For now, AI is too blunt a tool to identify hate speech well. But it's too big a task for humans alone.

Future Society

Here’s What It Takes to Get Kicked off Facebook (Hint: It’s A Lot)

How does your racist aunt (or InfoWars) get away with posting so much loosely veiled propaganda?

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Experts Vow They Won’t Help Create Lethal Autonomous Weapons

"AI weapons that autonomously decide to kill people are as disgusting and destabilizing as bioweapons."

Facial recognition

Microsoft President Calls For Government Rules For Facial Recognition Technology

It's the most recent voice in a growing chorus around Silicon Valley that sees the harm facial recognition could have.

Future Society

EU Fines Google $5 Billion for Stifling Android’s Competition

That's about 40 percent of Google's net profit from 2017.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Automating Hollywood. Now, Art Can Thrive.

They will do more of the mundane tasks so humans don't have to.

Virtual Reality

This Startup Is Combining AR and VR by Putting Real Objects Into Virtual Worlds

Genetics

Creating Genetically Modified Babies Is “Morally Permissible,” Says Ethics Committee

We may be moving closer to a future of designer babies.

Future Society

Manufacturer Confirms Installing Remote-Access Software on U.S. Voting Machines

“The only way to make this worse would be to leave unguarded ballot boxes in Moscow and Beijing."

Boeing

SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS

A new report suggests NASA better start working on a backup plan.

Health & Medicine

The FDA Just Approved a Drug to Keep Us a Little Safer From Another Pandemic

If smallpox breaks out, now we have a quick way to fight it.

Future Society

It’s Amazon Prime Day. Don’t Buy Anything.

Or: should I compromise my morals for an inexpensive mattress?

Future Society

Uber and Lyft Still Allow Racist Behavior, but Not as Much as Taxi Services

Taxi drivers are 73% more likely to cancel on black riders than white ones.

Hacking

We Knew Russian Hackers Infiltrated Americans’ Inboxes. Now We Know How.

It really wasn't that hard.

Artificial Intelligence

Qbits for Cubists: Robots Made These Incredible Works of Fine Art

Here are the winners of the 2018 RobotArt competition.

Artificial Intelligence

Hinge Is Using a New Algorithm to Identify Your “Most Compatible” Mate

You can now let a Nobel Prize-winning algorithm suggest your perfect match.

Health & Medicine

We May Have Reached a Turning Point in the Opioid Crisis, Report Implies

A major health insurer released a report about opioids, and it has some encouraging news.

FCC

Have a Problem With Your Internet Provider? The FCC Doesn’t Want to Hear About It

Consumers may now have to pay for the FCC's help.