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Cambridge biologists recreated a bacterial genome from scratch, breeding E. coli with the artificial genetic code instead of natural DNA.
DNA

Scientists Created This Organism’s DNA From Scratch

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental text adventure game is generated in real-time by artificial intelligence, making for a fascinating, disjointed journey.
Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Network Dreams up This Text Adventure Game as You Play

By Dan Robitzski

Google has instructed full-time employees to work remotely. But contractors aren't allowed to, revealing a troubling class divide. h
Developments

Google Won’t Let Its Army of Contractors Work Remotely

By Dan Robitzski

IBM recently patented a new kind of smartwatch that unfolds eight times to form a full-sized touchscreen wearable tablet.
Future Society

IBM Patented a Goofy-Looking Watch That Folds Into a Tablet

By Dan Robitzski

An AI-developed flu vaccine is now undergoing clinical trials, meaning we could be headed toward an era of fewer flus and more AI-developed drugs.
Artificial Intelligence

First Human Drug Developed Solely by AI Is a Vaccine

By Kristin Houser

An app literally called "How Gay Are You" uses incredibly questionable science to predict whether people are homosexual based on their DNA test results.
DNA

This Startup Says It Can Analyze Your DNA to Detect if You’re Gay

By Dan Robitzski

Neural nets tasked with interpreting then recreating a "Star Wars" duel churned out a nightmarish scene where Luke Skywalker holds a baseball bat and surfs.
Artificial Intelligence

According to a Neural Network, Luke Skywalker Is a Surfing Baseball Player

By Dan Robitzski

A children's hospital being constructed in Dublin might implement facial recognition security cameras. The reasoning? To prevent babies from being stolen.
Facial recognition

Hospital: We Need Facial Recognition to Catch Baby Snatchers

By Dan Robitzski

Using head-mounted cameras to scan faces in Washington, D.C., Fight for the Future protestors hoped to draw attention to facial recognition surveillance.
Artificial Intelligence

Protestors Wearing Head-Mounted Cameras Scan 13,000 Faces in DC

By Kristin Houser

MIT's Baxter robot uses its ability to mimic human motions to tackle the viral #bottlecapchallenge in a decidely different way.
Robotics

Watch an MIT Robot Attempt the Bottle Cap Challenge — Sort Of

By Kristin Houser

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) compared facial recognition tech to the dystopian sci-fi series "Black Mirror" during a House committee meeting.
Facial recognition

AOC Warns That Facial Recognition Is “Real-Life ‘Black Mirror'”

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) set out with an ambitious task, to build a robodog which combined all the best parts of Siri, 3D-printing, and robots like Boston Dynamics SpotMini.
Boston Dynamics

This Boston Dynamics-Esque Bot Has Horrifying, Human-Like Eyes

By Jacob Banas

The Apple Card has granted women a lower credit limit than their husbands in a number of high-profile cases, raising questions about bias behind the scenes.
Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak Says the Apple Card Discriminated Against His Wife

By Dan Robitzski

Robots might one day steal the right to raise children away from humans, according to author and AI ethics expert John C. Havens.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert: Future Robots Could Steal Your Children

By Kristin Houser

Research scientist Janelle Shane trained a naming AI to conjure up new monikers for self-aware spaceships like those in author Iain M. Banks' Culture books.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Gives Other AIs Names Like “Ass Federation” And “Hot Pie” Because Robots Can Be Weird Too

By Kristin Houser

As LightSail 2 orbits Earth and explores the cosmos, people back home can track the progress of the solar sail and monitor its status through a new website.
Solar Power

A New Website Tracks the Just-Launched Solar Sail Spaceship

By Dan Robitzski

Larry Page, Google co-founder and former CEO, has been quietly funneling millions of dollars into charities that fund flu vaccine research and distribution.
Google

The Co-Founder of Google Is Quietly Trying to Cure the Flu

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Planner 5D is suing Facebook and Princeton University, claiming that they took, used, and shared its database of 3D models and simulations.
Artificial Intelligence

A Startup Is Suing Facebook, Princeton For Stealing Its AI Data

By Dan Robitzski

The FaceApp aging filter may be a viral sensation right now, but earlier versions of the smartphone app were incredibly racist.
Future Society

Earlier Versions of FaceApp Were Incredibly Racist

By Kristin Houser

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Treatments

Boosting NAD+ Levels May Be the Key to Effective Anti-Aging Treatments, Study Finds

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AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.
Artificial Intelligence

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content
Artificial Intelligence

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo