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Competing AI systems tasked with setting a product's price eventually stop competing with low prices and instead gouge their customers.
Artificial Intelligence

Capitalism is just another game that the AI intends to win.

By Dan Robitzski

Robots Are Already Driving and Painting, Now They’re Directing Films Too
Artificial Intelligence

A new documentary lets robots interview and film humans.

By Catherine Mullen

In order to draw attention to IBM's new generative adversarial network, a website generates slightly-unsettling faces that were created by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Sometimes they're beautiful. Other times they're grotesque.

By Dan Robitzski

We tested that AI Portrait generator on a bunch of celebrities and politicians. The results ranged from "okay I see it" to "hard nope."
Artificial Intelligence

Nic Cage grew neck hair and Trump is unrecognizable.

By Dan Robitzski

Napster Co-Founder Chides Elon Musk: Worry About Gene Editing, Not AI
Elon Musk

"This is the biggest unreported story."

By Jon Christian

An interactive maps show how climate change will make 540 North American cities feel like completely different locations by 2080.
Climate Change

See what city your hometown will feel like by 2080.

By Kristin Houser

Scientists say a new map of how structures of dark matter have grown throughout the life of the universe could upend current understanding of physics.
Physics

"The results appear to challenge current understanding of the fundamental laws of physics."

By Jon Christian

NASA is Finally Ready to Say Goodbye to its Opportunity Rover
NASA

RIP Opportunity rover, 2003-2018.

By Victor Tangermann

A new design for artificial leaves could make it possible to finally bring the technology out of the lab and into the "real world."
Renewable Energy

Researchers say it's ten times as efficient as a natural leaf.

By Kristin Houser

Los Angeles Axes Plan For Billions of Dollars In Fossil Fuel Investments
Climate Change

"This is the Green New Deal. Not in concept, not in the future, but now."

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change has melted the ice traditionally inhabited by polar bears, forcing the animals to invade a small Russian settlement in search of food.
Climate Change

They're chasing residents, staring down dogs, and feasting on garbage.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Colorado State University created a robot that can melt and re-harden parts of its skeleton to adapt to new challenges.
Robotics

That's pretty metal.

By Kristin Houser

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly announced Tuesday that he's running for Senate in Arizona — and positioned himself as a defender of science.
NASA

"There are a lot of powerful interests who want to stop us."

By Jon Christian

Researchers at ETH Zurich designed a robot that can teach itself how to ice skate. It could one day be used during search and rescue missions.
Robotics

"The only thing we tell it is how one ice skate behaves on ice."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of security researchers found a flaw in Xiaomi's M365 electric scooter. They were able to remotely control a scooter in a matter of hours.
Advanced Transport

Xiaomi’s M365 scooter has a security bug that lets a hacker control the throttle and brakes.

By Dan Robitzski

A newly released Pentagon report details the laser weapons likely in development by China and Russia to attack U.S. satellites.
Off-World

China and Russia are "likely" developing "laser weapons to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellites."

By Kristin Houser

Resarchers suggest that we will need larger rockets to land heavy payloads on the surface of Mars rather than bigger parachutes.
Mars

Please put your seatbacks and tray tables in upright position.

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla owner claims his car crashed because he wasn't able to disengage its Autopilot feature, but Tesla isn't buying his excuse.
Tesla

Tesla isn’t buying his story.

By Kristin Houser

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car
Facial recognition

The patent was filed before massive layoffs at Apple’s self-driving car division.

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Project Debater, an AI system that composes arguments, recently lost a debate to a world-renowned human debating expert.
Artificial Intelligence

Project Debater can formulate arguments, but can’t quite refute opponents.

By Dan Robitzski