Read the latest articles from Futurism (Page 1061)

Indian police just swore in KP-Bot as a sub-inspector. The robot police officer will work behind the front desk and direct visitors as needed.
Robotics

India Just Swore in Its First Robot Police Officer

RoboCop, meet KP-Bot.

Earlier this month, Google inadvertently revealed that its home security device, Nest, contained a secret microphone. Now it says secrecy was a "mistake."
Google

Google: Secret Nest Microphone “Never Intended to Be a Secret”

"That was an error on our part."

Vampire Clinic That Sold Young Blood to the Wealthy Closes Shop
Health & Medicine

Vampire Clinic That Sold Young Blood to the Wealthy Closes Shop

Ambrosia no longer offers its controversial blood transfusions.

The Bangladeshi government is scrubbing the internet of porn. But it's also monitoring people's personal social media accounts for provocative images.
Future Society

Bangladesh Declares “War on Pornography,” Blocks TikTok

The government is leering at celebs' social profiles and telling them to delete lewd pics.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared his thoughts on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies during a podcast interview with ARK Invest.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Bitcoin Is “Brilliant” And “Paper Money Is Going Away”

Tesla's CEO talked crypto during a new interview.

As of March 1, drivers in Queensland, Australia will be able to include one of five emoji in their license plates — a startling break from tradition.
Advanced Transport

Australian License Plates Can Now Include Emoji

How do you do, fellow kids?

A new tool called the TreePol spectropolarimeter could someday scan for extraterrestrial life without picking up any false positives.
Off-World

New Gadget Detects Lifeforms From Long Distances

Scientists think they could use it to spot aliens on distant worlds.

New research has uncovered a stellar stream comprising 4,000 stars flowing through the Milky Way remarkably close to the Earth.
Science & Energy

Scientists Found a “River of Stars” Flowing Through the Milky Way

This stellar stream has been hiding in plain sight.

A robot just physically examined the radioactive fuel at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactor. It's the first step toward an ongoing cleanup mission.
Robotics

Japan Sends Robot Into the Nuclear Hell of the Fukushima Reactor

It's like a Roomba — for nuclear waste.

WHO Says UN Should Reclassify Marijuana as Less Dangerous
Health & Medicine

WHO Says UN Should Reclassify Marijuana as Less Dangerous

The drug shouldn't be in the most restrictive category, says the WHO.

President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 4 (SPD-4) today, organizing all military space functions under a new Space Force.
Space Force

Trump Signs Directive: Space Force Will Be Run By Air Force

The plans still require Congressional approval.

QuadrigaCX has about two weeks left to its stay to raise the money it owes before anyone can sue, but a judge just appointed law firms to its customers.
Bitcoin

Users of Crypto Site Where Dead CEO Lost $196M Are Preparing Suit

The Nova Scotia Supreme Court appointed law firms Miller Thomson and Cox & Palmer.

The benefits of lab-grown meat will depend on scientists' ability to produce it sustainably, and right now, we don't know if that's even possible.
Future Society

Lab-Grown Meat Could Be Worse for the Environment

Growing meat isn't automatically cleaner than raising it.

When employers provide fitness trackers, they're privy to all sorts of private medical information that they can potentially use to determine layoffs.
Health & Medicine

Bosses Are Spying on Employees With Work-Provided Fitness Trackers

"It's quite possible there will be effects on whether you are retained, promoted, demoted — who is first to be laid off."

Rather than attempt to interpret emoji and emoticons in online communications, some courts simply choose to ignore the symbols.
Future Society

Judges Are Struggling to Interpret Emoji in Court Cases

A lawyer warns about the rise of "emoji law."

The FDA released a statement today warning that longevity companies advertising transfusions of young people's blood are likely scams.
Health & Medicine

The FDA Warns: Transfusions of Young Blood Are a Dangerous Scam

FDA Commissioner: "we’re concerned that some patients are being preyed upon by unscrupulous actors"

Using the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), astronomers have added another 300,000 galaxies to our map of the universe.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Discovered 300,000 New Galaxies

A new telescope delivers with its very first survey of the sky.

"Swarm squadrons of network-enabled drones capable of confusing and overwhelming enemy air defenses" could fight alongside fighter jets in the British army.
Drones

The British Military Is Working on Anti-Aircraft Drone Swarms

"Swarm squadrons of network-enabled drones" could confuse and overwhelm the enemy.

A statistician is warning that scientists are leaning on machine learning algorithms to find patterns in data where none exist.
Machine Learning

Statistician: Machine Learning Is Causing A “Crisis in Science”

Many researchers now use machine learning to analyze data. There's just one glaring problem.

The Navy just awarded Boeing a contract to build a giant robot submarine, which it says will prowl the depths of the ocean autonomously.
Robotics

Navy’s Giant New Robot Sub Will Prowl Ocean For Months Autonomously

The Navy's working on a deadly new ocean hunter.