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China's state-run media outlet Xinhua adds a female AI news anchor to its news team, and she'll make her professional debut in March.
Artificial Intelligence

She'll join a pair of male AIs already delivering the news in China.

By Kristin Houser

During a recent interview with law professor Jonathan Zittrain, Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly insisted against all evidence that Facebook promotes privacy.
Privacy

"Thinking about Facebook as an innovator in privacy is certainly not the mainstream view."

By Dan Robitzski

A new NASA page beams weather data from the space agency's InSight lander, on the Red Planet, straight to your web browser.
NASA

And you can check them out here.

By Jon Christian

NASA and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are working on sending an underwater drone to the deepest points of the Earth's oceans.
Exobiology

The goal is to explore the "hadal zone," many miles beneath the surface.

By Victor Tangermann

Trump Calls For “6G,” Which Doesn’t Exist
Future Society

Let's focus on actually setting up 5G first.

By Dan Robitzski

The firm that won an international competition to design a robotics museum in Seoul plans to have robots "in charge" of the construction.
Robotics

The museum's construction will be its first exhibit.

By Kristin Houser

New Research: Bone Marrow Transplants Might Prevent Aging
Health & Medicine

The brain cells of older mice looked young again.

By Dan Robitzski

The nonprofit Consumer Reports decided to pull its "recommended" rating today, citing new "reliability data" collected from a 2018 survey.
Tesla

Model 3 owners are complaining about malfunctioning electrics, rear window cracks, and loose body trim.

By Victor Tangermann

Sean Dorrance Kelly, philosophy professor at Harvard, argues that artificial intelligence can never achieve true human creativity.
Artificial Intelligence

Are we substituting machine creativity for our own?

By Victor Tangermann

A video exposing the prevalence of YouTube pedophiles has caused advertisers to flee the platform, but what can it do to actually address the problem?
Future Society

YouTube's algorithms are enabling "soft-core pedophilia." Can the video site correct course?

By Kristin Houser

Just days after release, Nike released a software update for its self-tightening sneaker that ended up crashing the whole system.
Future Society

"It's pretty sad paying $350.00 for something that doesn’t work properly."

By Dan Robitzski

A New AI Draws Cats, and They’re Utterly Grotesque
Artificial Intelligence

No cats were harmed in the making of this creepy website.

By Victor Tangermann

The relationship between law enforcement and self-driving cars is still in flux, but some are suggesting we give let police control self-driving cars.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Police might be able to reroute cars or force them to pull over.

By Kristin Houser

JP Morgan Chase is launching the first ever major U.S. bank approved cryptocurrency called "JPM Coin."
Cryptocurrency

A couple of years ago, its CEO called Bitcoin a "fraud."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have finally figured out why Hippocamp, a tiny moon orbiting Neptune, is able to exist despite its close proximity to a much-larger moon.
Science & Energy

Neptune's tiniest moon was likely once a part of its second biggest.

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Army is currently vetting potential replacements for its iconic Black Hawk helicopter, which is too slow and has too short a range to stay useful.
Advanced Transport

It borrows the best elements from planes and helicopters.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk recently claimed that Tesla would put fully-autonomous vehicles on the road before year's end. Experts in the field don't buy it.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk says we'll have self-driving Teslas next year. This expert isn't convinced.

By Dan Robitzski

Air and Space Law professor Michelle Hanlon argues that if we don't draft new laws, the destruction of landmarks that happens on Earth will repeat in space.
Moon

"There is no law against running over the first bootprints imprinted on the moon."

By Dan Robitzski

Samsung Just Revealed a $1,980 Folding Smartphone
Robots and Machines

The Galaxy Fold will be available starting April 26.

By Victor Tangermann

A new gene therapy tested on mice can treat a specific kind of congenital deafness by repairing a faulty inner-ear protein.
Biology

Deaf mice gained typical hearing levels.

By Dan Robitzski