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Smart oven maker June Ovens is in the news this week, thanks to reports of their smart ovens allegedly turning themselves on overnight.
Internet Of Things

WiFi-Enabled Smart Ovens Are Preheating Themselves at Night

The company's explanation: sometimes you hit the wrong button on your phone. And, you know, accidentally start your oven.

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese search engine Sogou is creating AI author avatars to narrate the writers' books in both their voices and their likenesses
Artificial Intelligence

These AI Author Avatars Will Read Their Books to You

The tech could save writers from weeks of recording sessions.

By Kristin Houser

A startup developing a marijuana breathalyzer just secured funding through Y Combinator, one of the world's top accelerators.
Robots and Machines

This Startup Created a Marijuana Breathalyzer

And it now has the backing of top accelerator Y Combinator.

By Kristin Houser

Fraternities at Unversity of Texas are signing contracts with Tinder or Bumble to promote the app on campus in exchange for sponsored parties.
Future Society

Frats Are Signing “Exclusive Contracts” to Use Tinder or Bumble

People need to have an account to get into some parties.

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon claims its Rekognition software can now detect fear on a person's face, as well as provide a better estimate of their age.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Claims Rekognition Can Now Detect Fear

The facial recognition tech has also gotten better at estimating ages, Amazon says.

By Kristin Houser

Scientists suggest that Jupiter may have collided with and absorbed a giant protoplanet when the solar system was forming some 4.5 billion years ago.
Science & Energy

Jupiter May Have Absorbed a Smaller Planet

Did the solar system's largest planet eat one of its siblings?

By Dan Robitzski

Comcast customers are finding it harder and harder to stay within their data caps as streaming technology and quality improves.
Science & Energy

Comcast Is Gouging People Who Watch Too Much Netflix

"The first month I blew through the cap like it was nothing."

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have reported finding eight new repeating fast radio bursts, potential alien signals, brining the total number of known repeaters up to 10.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Detect Eight New Potential Alien Signals

The number of known repeating FRBs just jumped from two to 10.

By Kristin Houser

YouTubers who discuss LGBTQ issues are suing YouTube after finding that their videos get demonetized or age restricted on the site.
Future Society

LGBTQ YouTubers File Suit Over Discrimination

The lawsuit says YouTube unfairly targets the LGBTQ community.

By Dan Robitzski

The FAA is banning anyone from bringing an Apple recalled MacBook on flights — though it's not clear how it plans to enforce the ban.
Robots and Machines

FAA Bans Exploding MacBooks From Airplanes

But its plans to enforce the ban aren't clear.

By Kristin Houser

British Airways is testing a range of new VR entertainment features for select first class flights between London's Heathrow airport and JFK in New York.
Virtual Reality

Airline Tests VR Entertainment — But Only For First Class Passengers

Now first class passengers won't even have to look at the economy class proles.

By Victor Tangermann

A report from Cambridge University warns of the risk of unregulated bioweapons that could target specific races by their DNA.
Science & Energy

Future Bioweapons Could Kill People With Specific DNA

That could mean weapons that only target specific ethnic groups.

By Dan Robitzski

Hacker and IT security analyst Truman Kain has created a surveillance tool that can tell you in real-time if you're being followed while driving your Tesla.
Tesla

This Tesla Surveillance Hack Can Tell You if You’re Being Followed

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't following you.

By Victor Tangermann

The Atlantic: It’s Possible Dinosaurs Had a Whole Civilization
Science & Energy

The Atlantic: It’s Possible Dinosaurs Had a Whole Civilization

Here's a wild idea: Technologically advanced dinosaurs might have tried asteroid mining — and accidentally crashed a big one into the Earth, driving themselves extinct in the process.

By Dan Robitzski

The first trial of a chlamydia vaccine in humans delivered promising results, with researchers already looking forward to the next steps.
RX and Medicine

New Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Promise In First Human Trial

"The research is still in its early days, but we're very happy."

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX has scheduled the next test flight of its Starship prototype Starhopper — possibly up to an altitude of 650 feet — for this weekend.
SpaceX

SpaceX “Starhopper” Will Attempt Longest Flight Yet This Weekend

"Just spoke with FAA, so hopefully yes."

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook paid third-party contractors to write up transcriptions of user's conversations, despite the company's insistence that it doesn't record us.
Meta

Facebook Has Been Secretly Transcribing Your Conversations

And the company paid outside contractors to do it.

By Dan Robitzski

Starting in 2023, the United State's nuclear stockpile will be managed by El Capitan, a supercomputer with a peak performance of 1.5 exaflops.
Computers

This $600 Million Supercomputer Will Manage the US’s Nukes

It'll be more powerful than today's top 100 supercomputers combined.

By Kristin Houser

A new survey reveals that teens tend to trust social media and YouTube personalities more than they do established news outlets.
Future Society

Teens Now Trust YouTubers More Than Journalists

A survey shows that teens go to YouTube despite knowing it's less reliable.

By Dan Robitzski

Microplastic has been found in rainwater samples in the Rocky Mountains, suggesting that plastic pollution has spread much farther than expected.
Pollution

Rain Clouds Are Dropping Microplastic on the Rocky Mountains

"It's a part of our environment now."

By Dan Robitzski