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The U.K. has new surveillance CCTV cameras that can read people's lips, and privacy-focused government watchdogs are not happy about it.
Future Society

UK Watchdog Is Worried Government Will Deploy Lip-Reading CCTVs

A physicist created a calculator that uses mathematical models to determine the likelihood that humanity would survive a vampire attack.
Future Society

A Physicist Calculated Our Chances of Surviving a Vampire Attack

A pair of researchers associated with the U.S. Air Force want to give the codes to launch nuclear bombs to an artificial intelligence (AI).
Artificial Intelligence

Air Force-Affiliated Researchers Want to Let AI Launch Nukes

By the year 2069, digital personhood — the granting of rights to machines — could be the norm, a tech expert told Pew Research Center.
Future Society

Expert: Software Could Have “Personhood” by 2069

A team of MIT researchers claim to have developed a new technology that allows driverless cars to see around corners to make them safer.
Advanced Transport

MIT Research Lets Driverless Cars Spot Obstacles Around Corners

Physicist and author Arthur Miller shares his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence, art, and what it means for machines to be creative.
Artificial Intelligence

Someday, Robot Artists May Have to Explain Their Creations to Us

New proposed legislation would keep facial recognition technology out of the hands of all levels of law enforcement in the U.S.
Future Society

Senators Propose a National Ban on Police Facial Recognition

Four Japanese people agreed to give up their privacy and let cameras record their every move at home for a month for 200,000 yen, or $1,830.
Future Society

This Company Is Paying People $1,830 to Film Them Constantly

Governments should step in to prevent tech companies from developing malicious, evil, super-human AI, writes tech expert Wim Naudé.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert: Governments Must Step in to Prevent Evil, Superpowered AI

We're one step closer to invisibility cloaks thanks to a new artificial intelligence that designs metamaterials with specific optical properties.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Is Helping Scientists Develop Invisibility Cloaks

Engineer Jau Tang has plans to clean up our act. His research shows how we could do away with fossil fuels, instead powering vehicles with plasma and air.
Advanced Transport

This Scientist Says He’s Built a Jet Engine That Turns Electricity Directly Into Thrust

MIT researchers have created a fleet of robot cubes that can move autonomously, climbing, spinning, and even jumping to form shapes.
Robotics

Watch MIT’s Robot Cubes Self-Assemble Into Structures

A team of researchers have developed a neural network that can predict if asteroids are on a collision course with Earth.
Artificial Intelligence

Neural Network Says These 11 Asteroids Could Smash Into Earth

A team of researchers in Japan have developed a new way to keep brain tissue from animals alive and viable for up to 25 days.
Brain

Scientists Keep Brain Tissue From Dead Mice Alive For Weeks

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.
Science & Energy

Gov Contact-Tracing App Sends User Data to Foursquare, Google

AI built to detect hate speech online, including a widely-used tool built by Google, tends to flag tweets written by black people as toxic more often.
Google

Google’s Hate Speech-Detecting AI is Biased Against Black People

The Chinese city of Chengdu plans to launch an artificial moon into the sky to provide light during the night, eliminated the need for streetlights.
Moon

A Chinese City Plans to Replace Its Streetlights With an Artificial Moon

A Chinese first that creates cloned pets says it's considering ways to use artificial intelligence to clone animals memories.
Science & Energy

Chinese Firm Wants to Give Cloned Pets the Original’s “Memories”

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard warns that the field of math could be full of nonsense, as many prominent researchers don't double-check others' proofs.
Science & Energy

Mathematician: Everything We Know About Math Could Be Wrong

A team of UK researchers at Google Health and Google's AI lab DeepMind has created a tool that can successfully identify breast cancer in mammograms.
Cancer

Google’s New AI is Great at Spotting Breast Cancer in X-Rays