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

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

"It is the first time in history that security tokens can be offered and traded in a legally binding way."

By Kristin Houser

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

Blue Origin’s New Shepard Rocket Aces Important Test

Both the rocket and its capsule nailed the landing.

By Kristin Houser

we may see manned missions to the moon. Science, politics, and celestial cash grabs are at the forefront of why people want to go back.
Moon

3 Reasons Why We Might Return to The Moon

There hasn’t been a person on the moon since 1972.

By Dan Robitzski

Alphabet has inked a deal with a Kenyan telecom to bring its balloon-powered internet to rural and suburban parts of Kenya
Future Society

Alphabet Will Bring Its Balloon-Powered Internet to Kenya

About a third of Kenya's population still can't get online. That might soon change.

By Kristin Houser

A Spanish tech startup decided to ditch artificial intelligence to make its chatbot platform more approachable
Artificial Intelligence

This New Startup Is Making Chatbots Dumber So You Can Actually Talk to Them

Chatbots don't need to be smart. They just need to work.

By Victor Tangermann

Google agreed to work with UN Environment to create a platform that gives the world access to valuable environmental data.
Climate Change

Google and The UN Team Up To Study The Effects of Climate Change

The U.S. government has bowed out, so the company is stepping up.

By Kristin Houser

This Wearable Controller Lets You Pilot a Drone With Your Body
Drones

This Wearable Controller Lets You Pilot a Drone With Your Body

The suit cuts down learning time and improves steering.

By Kristin Houser

Rolls Royce just unveiled the latest iteration of its cockroach-like robots designed to enter airplane engines and help repair them.
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.

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech
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.

By Victor Tangermann

Recently-acquired Facebook documents reveal what it would take to get kicked off facebook for hates peech or propaganda.
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?

By Dan Robitzski

Hundreds of AI experts just signed a pledge vowing to never develop lethal autonomous weapons and calling for their global ban.
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."

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft President Calls For Government Rules For Facial Recognition Technology
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.

By Victor Tangermann

The EU just fined Google $5 billion for violating antitrust laws designed to prevent market leaders from stifling competition.
Future Society

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

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

By Kristin Houser

The next movie you watch could have been performed, edited, and recommended by artificial intelligence.
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.

By Dan Robitzski

Electric Cars Are Too Important For Elon Musk to Put at Risk
Elon Musk

Electric Cars Are Too Important For Elon Musk to Put at Risk

Musk’s online shenanigans are making Tesla's value fall. Bad news for someone who wants to save the world.

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Nia Brown

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

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

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

By Kristin Houser

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

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS
Boeing

SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS

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

By Kristin Houser

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

By Kristin Houser