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In a damning report published yesterday, Reuters confirmed that carmaker Hyundai has been using child labor near its flagship factory in Montgomery, AL.

Hyundai Busted Using Child Labor in Alabama

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New imagery of the largest canyon in the solar system was captured on the Red Planet by the ESA and the Mars Express mission.

Mars Satellite Captures Breathtaking View of Deepest Canyon in Entire Solar System

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new report from the Harvard Kennedy School found that China’s rapidly gaining steam in the realms of AI, 5G, quantum computing, biotechnology, and more.

Harvard Warns That Chinese Tech Is Rapidly Overtaking American Capabilities

By Tony Ho Tran

Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.

Science & Energy

Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers figured out how to make smart tattoos with built in lights that could become useful medical sensors — or at the very least look extremely cool

Science & Energy

New Smart Tattoos Have Built-In Lights

By Dan Robitzski

Russian engineers built a bizarre pilotless aircraft that flies by flapping its six wings like a gigantic, terrifying dragonfly.

Robots and Machines

Look At This Horrifying Aircraft That Flaps Its Wings Like a Dragonfly

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers built an artificial muscle material that gets stronger as it works, potentially leading to soft robots that adapt to their jobs.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Invent Artificial Muscle That Gets Stronger With Exercise

By Dan Robitzski

Prominent physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues that simulation theory more closely resembles religious belief than a serious scientific hypothesis.

Physicist Trashes Simulation Theory, Says It’s Basically a Religion

By Dan Robitzski

A group that dispenses instructions on how to 3D print functional guns at home is about to release an upgraded assault rifle.

You Can Now 3D Print an Entire Semi-Automatic Rifle at Home

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural net algorithm can listen to people's heartbeats with radio waves and guess how they're feeling 71 percent of the time.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Detects Your Emotions by Scanning You With Radio Signals

By Dan Robitzski

Building fiber optic cables with a hollow, air-filled core could finally address an issue that's plagued the tech for 50 years.

Science & Energy

We Can Improve Fiber Optics by Filling Them With Air

By Dan Robitzski

The hologram strat up PORTL Hologram made a doorway-sized device that can transmit holograms as new, immersive form of video calls.

Virtual Reality

This “Portal” Lets You Beam a Hologram of Yourself Into Video Calls

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers have built a true hologram, not unlike the ones seen in "Star Wars": a short loop of the Earth spinning on its axis.

Virtual Reality

Scientists Create True, “Star Wars”-Style Hologram

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists want to improve our ability to forecast weather in space due to concerns that a solar storm could wipe out our entire electronic infrastructure.

Scientists Are Worried About Solar Storms Frying all our Electronics

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a beetle-sized backpack camera that they can use to livestream the daily routine of an insect from the bug's perspective.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Build Tiny Camera For Beetles to Carry Around

By Dan Robitzski

Yamato, a cty in Japan, just passed a law that requires pedestrians to put their phones away until they stop walking in order to prevent accidents.

A Japanese City Just Banned Using Phones While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

Scammers are capitalizing on people's baseless fears that 5G signals cause health problems by selling a cheap USB drive and claiming it protects people.

Science & Energy

These Scammers Are Selling a Nonsense Anti-5G Gadget

By Dan Robitzski

People are creating realistic avatars of celebrities or their own exes and having sex with them in virtual reality, raising issues of consent and privacy.

People Are Selling 3D Virtual Sex Models of Celebs, Exes

By Dan Robitzski

A cybersecurity company called Crown Sterling gave a bizarre, buzzword-filled talk at the cybersecurity conference Black Hat and got roasted to oblivion.

Science & Energy

Hackers Are Roasting a Terrible Sponsored Talk at Black Hat

By Dan Robitzski

To prevent shootings, schools and public places are installing "aggression detectors" for monitoring students for angry behavior before it becomes violence.

“Aggression Detectors” Monitoring Students Don’t Really Work

By Natalie Coleman

That drone that Iran shot down was a super-spy behemoth that carries up to $90 million worth of surveillance equipment while flying for 34 hours at a time.

Before Iran Shot It Down, the US’s $130M Drone Spied on the World

By Dan Robitzski

Security experts detect trillions of attempted hacks every day, many of which target political systems and elections using cheap, readily-available tools.

Science & Energy

Hackers Are Threatening Elections Around the World

By Dan Robitzski

A new op-ed in the New York Times says that everyone can embrace a life of high-tech luxury, as long as the world embraces communism.

NYT Calls For “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”

By Dan Robitzski

New models show that scientists could use lasers and powerful magnets to manipulate superconducting materials or build quantum circuits.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Can Enhance Electronics by Shooting Them With Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

Circus Roncalli in Germany did away with its live animal shows. Instead, its using holograms to project virtual horses, elephants, and other animals.

Virtual Reality

A German Circus Is Using Amazing Holograms Instead of Animals

By Dan Robitzski

A new weapon called the Wattozz fires out wireless "bullets" that can be used to shock and incapacitate a would-be assailant.

Robots and Machines

This Futuristic Non-Lethal Weapon Will Electrocute Your Enemies

By Dan Robitzski

The Navy will outfit a destroyer with the HELIOS laser weapon system for the first time in 2021, and hopes to upgrade the technology from there.

The US Military Is Officially Rolling out Its HELIOS Laser Weapon

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese artist Guo O Dong is selling a laptop infected with the six most dangeous viruses in history for $1.2 million dollars.

This Dude Is Selling a Virus-Infested Laptop For $1.2 Million

By Natalie Coleman

In order to prevent devastating hypersonic missile strikes, military contractor Raytheon is working towards a powerful laser capable of shooting them down.

Raytheon Says Laser Weapon Will Blast Nuclear Missiles From Sky

By Dan Robitzski

A Stanford scientist says that "hearables," devices that communicate with our brains through our ears like smart hearing aids, are coming soon.

Stanford Scientist Says In-Ear Gadgets Will Monitor Our Brains

By Dan Robitzski

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Prosthetics and Devices

A Guy Got a QR Code Tattoo and Then Someone Broke the Link

By Dan Robitzski

Following a week of protests over the company's controversial nominations, Google decided to cancel its new ethics board.

Google Started an Ethics Board and Then Killed It After Protests

By Dan Robitzski

IBM engineers just figured out how to build AI that can learn from its memories, transferring skills among related tasks instead of starting from scratch.

Artificial Intelligence

IBM’s New AI Does Something Amazing: It Learns From “Memories”

By Dan Robitzski

A new trend in San Francisco's Silicon Valley involves DJs who perform electronic music by coding their sets in real time.

These DJs Are Making Music By Coding on a Huge Screen

By Dan Robitzski

The wealthy are doing what they can to limit the screen time of themselves and their children, spending money on "screen-free" schools and experiences.

Tech Used to Be for the Rich. Now They’re Paying to Avoid It.

By Kristin Houser

DARPA funded a research project that wants to use the noise given off by snapping shrimp and other sea life as ubiquitous sonar.

DARPA Wants to Use Noisy Shrimp to Detect Enemy Subs

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists build a DNA computer that can be written and rewritten to run different software, just like a conventional computer.

The World’s First Reprogrammable DNA Computer is Here

By Dan Robitzski

More details emerge about the U.S. Army's virtual reality combat training simulations, which a software developer says is ramping up its scale.

Virtual Reality

The U.S. Army Is Using Virtual Reality Combat to Train Soldiers

By Dan Robitzski

2020 Presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke was reportedly part of the hacktivist group known as the Cult of the Dead Cow during his teenage years.

Presidential Hopeful Beto O’Rourke Belonged to Infamous Hacker Group

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that introducing autonomous vehicles to the Washington D.C. area could worsen inequality and explores solutions.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Scientists Warn Self-Driving Cars Could Worsen Inequality

By Dan Robitzski

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

Software Bug Immediately Crashes Nike’s Self-Lacing Sneakers

By Dan Robitzski

Anonymous contractors at Apple's so-called "black site," a low-key office for Apple Maps development, described grim working conditions.

Apple Runs A “Black Site” That a Worker Called “Dehumanizing”

By Dan Robitzski

When virtual reality hits the mainstream, companies may find that its cheaper to invest in VR headsets and simulated offices than physical real estate.

Virtual Reality

I Tried a VR App Meant to Replace Offices, and It Was Glorious

By Dan Robitzski

A new global survey presented to the World Economic Forum reveals a pervasive, worldwide optimism in the face of automation.

Globally, Most Workers Think Robots Couldn’t Handle Their Jobs

By Dan Robitzski

Russian media released a video of Peresvet today. Deployment of the laser turret seems to be a response to Pompeo's threat to tear up an arms treaty.

Robots and Machines

Russia’s Latest Weapon: A Laser Cannon

By Dan Robitzski

Technology research group MERL Tech investigated the lofty claims of 43 blockchain startups. In a new report, the group claims none of them delivered.

Out of 43 Blockchain Startups, Zero Have Delivered Products

By Dan Robitzski

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Prosthetics and Devices

For a Thousand Bucks, You Can Get the First Non-Dorky Smart Glasses

By Dan Robitzski

The World’s First Practical Quantum Computer May Be Just Five Years Away

Quantum Computing

The World’s First Practical Quantum Computer May Be Just Five Years Away

By Dan Robitzski

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How Women-Startup Founders Are Building Better Cities [Sponsored]

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Google Created AI That Just Needs A Few Snapshots To Make 3D Models Of Its Surroundings

Google Created AI That Just Needs A Few Snapshots To Make 3D Models Of Its Surroundings

By Dan Robitzski

Have Poor Vision? Let These Super Clunky Glasses Focus Your Eyes For You

Health & Medicine

Have Poor Vision? Let These Super Clunky Glasses Focus Your Eyes For You

By Dan Robitzski

A New AI Algorithm Can Track Your Movements Through A Wall

Artificial Intelligence

A New AI Algorithm Can Track Your Movements Through A Wall

By Dan Robitzski

Brain-Based Circuitry Just Made Artificial Intelligence A Whole Lot Faster

Brain-Based Circuitry Just Made Artificial Intelligence A Whole Lot Faster

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook Wants To Make Its News More Credible With New Hires And Partnerships

Facebook Wants To Make Its News More Credible With New Hires And Partnerships

By Dan Robitzski

With Bees Scarce, A Drone Pollinates A New York Apple Orchard

With Bees Scarce, A Drone Pollinates A New York Apple Orchard

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook Will Start Making Its Own AI Chips To Stop Violent Livestreams

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Will Start Making Its Own AI Chips To Stop Violent Livestreams

By Dan Robitzski

Personalized, Brainwave-Guided Movies Are Cool, As Long As You’re The One Steering

Personalized, Brainwave-Guided Movies Are Cool, As Long As You’re The One Steering

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks, Amazon! Echo Recorded And Sent Audio To Random Contacts Without Warning

Robots and Machines

Thanks, Amazon! Echo Recorded And Sent Audio To Random Contacts Without Warning

By Dan Robitzski

New Jelly-Like Neural Implant Eliminates the Need to Drill Through the Brain

New Jelly-Like Neural Implant Eliminates the Need to Drill Through the Brain

By Dan Robitzski

As Self-Driving Cars Hit Roadblocks, Autonomous Boats Could Take Traffic Off The Streets

Self-Driving Vehicles

As Self-Driving Cars Hit Roadblocks, Autonomous Boats Could Take Traffic Off The Streets

By Dan Robitzski

Brain Scans Of Stressed Pilots Uncover A Big Problem With How We Do Science

Brain Scans Of Stressed Pilots Uncover A Big Problem With How We Do Science

By Dan Robitzski

New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full Of Holes

New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full Of Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

By Dan Robitzski