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New models show that scientists could use lasers and powerful magnets to manipulate superconducting materials or build quantum circuits.
Quantum Physics

Scientists Can Enhance Electronics by Shooting Them With Lasers

The model suggests lasers could help make superconductor or quantum systems.

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI tool called PetSwap uses a deepfake algorithm to morph photos of animals, or humans, into a variety of species, like Animorphs.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Shows What You’d Look Like as a Puppy

Furries rejoice.

By Natalie Coleman

Chicago librarian Emma Boettcher, who wrote her masters thesis on deep learning and "Jeopardy!", just won the classic quiz game. And we found her thesis.
Artificial Intelligence

We Found “Jeopardy!” Kingslayer Emma Boettcher’s Thesis on Data Mining

Did Boettcher's data work help her dethrone reigning champ James Holzhauer?

By Foster Kamer

Oddly human-looking robot artist Ai-Da is about to launch its first exhibition — and the bot's artworks have already sold for more than $1.2 million.
Artificial Intelligence

Creepy Human-Like Robot’s Art Is Selling for Astronomical Prices

The bot's first solo exhibition opens in a week — and it's already sold out.

By Kristin Houser

In July, Uber will launch a new helicopter service to shuttle New Yorkers from downtown Manhattan and JFK airport in Queens.
Advanced Transport

Uber Is Launching an On-Demand Helicopter Service

Forget UberBLACK. How about your own helicopter instead?

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database
Data Privacy

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database

Company executives have been very vocal about limiting facial recognition software in the past.

By Victor Tangermann

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment
Environment

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

Training a single large neural network has the equivalent carbon footprint of a human living for almost 57 years.

By Victor Tangermann

A new study examined heavy internet users and found both structural and physical changes to their brains. Their memories and attention spans both suffered.
Science & Energy

Wait, What? New Research Says Internet Use Is Killing Your Memory

It turns out the internet is changing our brains.

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, The New York Times published a retroactive obituary for Alan Turing, the man credited as kickstarting artificial intelligence research.
Future Society

Alan Turing Finally Got His New York Times Obituary

At the time of his death, homosexuality was a crime.

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert told the audience at re:MARS he thinks the company's SpotMini robodogs could one day battle for our entertainment.
Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics CEO Wants Its Robodogs to Fight Each Other

SpotMini might trade in the dance floor for the battle arena.

By Kristin Houser

There might be another universe, exactly like our own — except that it's a perfect mirror image. And it could explain dark matter.
Science & Energy

Bizarre Theory: “Mirror-Image Universe” Could Explain Dark Matter

A universe where everything is flipped just might exist, scientists say — and it could contain your mirror-image twin.

By Jon Christian

China's rocket launch from a barge in the Yellow Sea on Wednesday makes it just the third nation to successfully complete an offshore launch.
Off-World

Watch China Launch a Rocket From Sea for the First Time

The nation now has a cheaper, safer way to reach space.

By Kristin Houser

A new biomedical technique lets scientists gene-hack an animal with CRISPR in vivo instead of having to remove and re-inject their cells.
Health & Medicine

Harvard Just Gene-Hacked Stem Cells Inside a Living Organism

DNA is starting to look like one more type of code to hack and rewrite.

By Dan Robitzski

Oakland has followed Denver's lead, becoming just the second city in the U.S. to decriminalize magic mushrooms and other entheogenic plants and fungi.
Health & Medicine

Magic Mushrooms Decriminalized in Second US City

Oakland has decided to follow in Denver's footsteps.

By Kristin Houser

Scientists at the European Space Agency say that a crewed mission to Mars too dangerous to pursue because of high levels of cosmic radiation.
Mars

European Space Agency: Radiation Will Make Mars Mission Deadly

Scientists are working on new shields to protect astronauts as they venture out.

By Dan Robitzski

Here Are Some Headlines for This Incredibly Boring Robot Video
Robotics

Here Are Some Headlines for This Incredibly Boring Robot Video

Other robots ran so this one could walk.

By Kristin Houser

MIT scientists built a new algorithm for self-piloting "roboats" that let them automatically latch together to form robot barges.
Robotics

Amsterdam Is Paying MIT to Develop Robot Barges For Its Canals

The self-steering boats can form bigger platforms and ferries.

By Dan Robitzski

Circus Roncalli in Germany did away with its live animal shows. Instead, its using holograms to project virtual horses, elephants, and other animals.
Virtual Reality

A German Circus Is Using Amazing Holograms Instead of Animals

Circus Roncalli traded in trained animals for a futuristic light show.

By Dan Robitzski

Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Clean Up Earth With Robots and AI
Climate Change

Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Clean Up Earth With Robots and AI

The "Iron Man" actor wants to save the Earth with nanotechnology.

By Victor Tangermann

A company called GLITCH is selling dresses that were designed by an AI algorithm. It hopes to support more women in science and tech.
Artificial Intelligence

This Startup Is Selling “Little Black Dresses” Designed By AI

Would you wear clothing designed by an algorithm?

By Dan Robitzski