Researchers are getting close to manufacturing viable human embryos from stem cells. They say there needs to be a law against turning them into people. | Continue reading
A new data set aims to teach computer vision systems to recognize images from disasters. | Continue reading
A study published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry suggests that teenagers who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to develop mental health problems including depression, anxiety, aggression, and antisocial behavior.The study: Nearly 6,600 12- to … | Continue reading
Space elevators would dramatically reduce the cost of reaching space but have never been technologically feasible. Until now. | Continue reading
Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology. | Continue reading
Dave Masten builds rockets on a shoestring in the desert—can he help NASA reinvent itself as a lean, agile enterprise? | Continue reading
Activists are using Airdrop, livestreams, and innovative maps to keep their protest alive. But the authorities have plenty of tech of their own. | Continue reading
Investing $1.7 trillion over the next decade to prepare for climate change will produce more than $7 trillion in economic returns, according to a new report. | Continue reading
It’s part of a global general strike due to take place on September 20, led by activist Greta Thunberg.The news: Over 900 employees have signed an internal petition to walk out over their employer’s lack of action on climate change, Wired reports. | Continue reading
The move is part of a wide-ranging push to rein in the power of Big Tech | Continue reading
Supercooling organs could save the lives of people on transplant waiting lists. | Continue reading
Long before Facebook revealed its vision for a global digital currency, there was the “Gram. | Continue reading
Monday’s incident between SpaceX and ESA was just a taste of the problems we’ll see if we don’t overhaul how we handle the world’s satellites. | Continue reading
Chinese media is claiming that while investigating the far side of the moon, the country’s Yutu-2 lunar rover stumbled upon a unique “gel-like” substance of unknown origin sitting inside a small crater.What we know so far: Yutu-2 made the discovery during its eighth lunar day on … | Continue reading
The approach is based on two popular AI techniques: generative adversarial networks and reinforcement learning.The news: A team from AI pharma startup Insilico Medicine, working with researchers at the University of Toronto, took 21 days to create 30,000 designs for molecules tha … | Continue reading
At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker. | Continue reading
At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency had to move one of its satellites out of the way today to protect it from colliding with a SpaceX Starlink satellite, the space agency just announced on Twitter.A first: ESA says it’s the first time it has had to perform a “collision avoidance maneuver” … | Continue reading
A group of independent biologists say they plan to copy a costly gene therapy. Are they medicine’s Robin Hood or a threat to safety? | Continue reading
MIT researchers have found new ways to cure headaches in manufacturing carbon nanotube processors, which are faster and less power hungry than silicon chips. | Continue reading
Bid for barnyard revolution is set back after regulators find celebrity “hornless” bovines contaminated by bacterial genes. | Continue reading
Websites delivered iOS malware to thousands of visitors in the biggest iPhone hack ever. There’s no telling who was infected—or who was behind it. | Continue reading
The popular video game provides the best environment for an AI to learn a wide range of tasks, the company’s researchers say. | Continue reading
The AI lab has also released a report to explain why it is releasing the model in increments. | Continue reading
As the market for products aimed at older users explodes, some entrepreneurs are turning to a radical idea: actually get the customers involved. | Continue reading
A family of street performers could walk on coals. Here’s how the secret of why they felt no pain could benefit others. | Continue reading
The fast food giant is just the latest chain to test catering for the growing demand for meat-free alternatives.The test: Beyond Meat fried chicken nuggets will be available in one KFC restaurant in Atlanta today. | Continue reading
Machine learning can help manage a wide range of mental health disorders. But the psychiatric profession is worryingly unprepared for this change, according to a global survey. | Continue reading
Growing competition to develop self-driving cars—and the high stakes of getting things right—have created new crowdworking platforms that could be a lifeline for desperate workers. | Continue reading
Ezekiel Emanuel questions “whether our consumption is worth our contribution” in old age. | Continue reading
The art of creating giant bubbles is more mysterious than it seems, but researchers are at last teasing apart the chemistry of thin soapy films. | Continue reading
A radar device that relies on entangled photons works at such low power that it can hide behind background noise, making it useful for biomedical and security applications. | Continue reading
Products designed for older people reinforce a bogus image of them as passive and feeble. | Continue reading
The Treasury Department has blacklisted several digital currency addresses it says belong to three Chinese nationals accused of trafficking synthetic opioids in the US. | Continue reading
Scientists have managed to send a record-breaking amount of data in quantum form, using a strange unit of quantum information called a qutrit.The news: Quantum tech promises to allow data to be sent securely over long distances. | Continue reading
Policing online hate groups is like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole and it’s not working. Here are some ideas that might. | Continue reading
Many worry that aging populations will doom the world economy and make life miserable for everyone. Here’s why that’s wrong. | Continue reading
The videos’ removal raises some intriguing questions about YouTube’s automated take-down process.The news: YouTube has been taking down videos of robots fighting, mistaking them for videos that show “deliberate infliction of animal suffering. | Continue reading
A diet based on caloric restriction might make you live longer. It’ll certainly feel like longer. | Continue reading
It’s the fifth big tech company forced to admit to the practice this year.The news: Facebook paid contractors to listen to, and transcribe, audio clips generated by people using its Messenger app, according to Bloomberg. | Continue reading
If this controversial idea gains acceptance, it could radically change the way we treat getting old. | Continue reading
Hao Li has spent his career perfecting digital trickery. Now he’s working to confront the problem of increasingly seamless off-the-shelf deception. | Continue reading
A new analysis shows that the number of Chinese AI researchers has increased tenfold over the last decade, but the majority of them live outside the country.Superpower dreams: China has put forth a concerted effort to grow into a leading AI powerhouse over the last few years. | Continue reading
You can always change your password. | Continue reading
Chip maker Nvidia is betting that AI’s language skills will advance rapidly—it’s releasing a powerful tool for putting together chatty programs. | Continue reading
The “terrascope” could outperform the light-gathering power of any feasible ground-based telescope. | Continue reading
Google’s artificial-intelligence researchers have created a football simulator for training the next generation of machine-learning algorithms. | Continue reading