Artificial Intelligence
How Should We Treat Our Military Robots?
Increasingly human-like automated weapons demand an honest accounting of our emotional responses to them.
Digital Government
US Space Firms Tell Washington: China Will Take Over the Moon If You’re Not Careful
The US space industry is prodding the US government into refreshing its outdated laws on commercial activity beyond Earth.
Cybersecurity
A Trick That Hides Censored Websites Inside Cat Videos
The technique uses popular sites as camouflage for banned ones.
Emerging Tech
Waymo Is Hitting Uber Where it Hurts
Waymo has launched its first public trial of self-driving cars in the Phoenix area of Arizona
Digital Government
Criminals Will Need a 'Face Off' Machine to Beat Biometrics If IARPA Project Succeeds
The intelligence community’s R&D unit awarded a few groups funds to prevent criminals from tricking biometric scanners.
Emerging Tech
Record-Breaking NASA Astronaut Chats With President About Unusual Drinking Habits
Astronaut Peggy Whitson has spent 534 days in orbit and counting
Emerging Tech
There’s No Such Thing As a Flying Car
Some companies believe they’re about to change that.
Emerging Tech
How to Slingshot a Spacecraft Between Saturn's Rings and Crash It
The Cassini spacecraft takes it final lap.
Emerging Tech
The Israeli Finalist in Google’s $20 Million Race to the Moon Won’t Make It to the Starting Line
The Google Lunar XPrize is a contest offering $20 million to the first private team to send a robot to the moon.
Cybersecurity
Quantum Computing Could Make the Encryption Behind Every Internet Transaction Obsolete—Someday
Cryptographers aren’t just giving up, though.
Emerging Tech
Silicon Valley’s Finest Are Finally Developing a Code of Ethics
Software engineers and executives in the Valley are writing up a set of civic values.
Emerging Tech
I Built A Bot With Zero Coding Experience. So Can You.
Deloitte is selling federal agencies on automation and walked me through the process.
Cybersecurity
Facebook's Account Recovery Changes Could Drastically Improve Your Online Security
Those security questions never were very secure.
Digital Government
A Bug Bounty to Hack Military Bases? It Could Happen.
A Defense Department official wants to find the vulnerabilities hidden in critical infrastructure.
Emerging Tech
The Best Showcase of Nanotechnology So Far May Be This Race of Tiny Cars
Each car is a single molecule.
Emerging Tech
It’s Getting Harder And Harder to Tell a Self-Driving Car From a Regular One
As with smartphones, digital cameras, and most other technology, when demand increases, the size of the sensing technology gets more compact.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Could Build New Drugs Faster Than Any Human Team
Startup Atomwise has built a system which attempts to generate potential drugs for diseases like Ebola and multiple sclerosis.
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