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People Are Reportedly Attacking Driverless Cars in California
Human Versus Machine Like something out of a Transformers film, angry citizens are fighting back against what they perhaps perceive as the modern equivalent of the Decepticons: autonomous cars....
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Four Takeaways From Amazon Alexa's Bone-Chilling, Unprompted Laughter
Reports of Amazon's virtual artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Alexa behaving strangely have recently made the rounds on the news and social media. Several Alexa-enabled devices have reportedly...
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Top 7 Breakthroughs of 2017 That Prove We're Living in the Future
In 2017, researchers turned science fiction into science fact – from developments in gene editing technologies, to improvements in artificial intelligence and quantum computing - this has certainly...
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Facebook Wants a Robot to Be Your Personal Photographer
Smartphones, and the multitude of apps that go with them, have changed users' photography habits. Taking a snap of everything one does has become almost ceremonial, followed by a mandatory Instagram...
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A Synthetic Microbe Could Be the Next Antibiotic
Drug-Resistant Superbugs Antibiotic resistance is one of the main threats to public health of our time. While superbugs are emerging all over the world thanks to an overuse of existing antibiotics,...
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Proposed California Law Would Give You the Right to Repair Your Tech
The Right to Repair On March 7, lawmaker Susan Talamantes Eggman introduced the California Right to Repair Act. If passed, the bill would make it considerably easier for consumers to repair their...
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Massive Study of Fake News May Reveal Why It Spreads So Easily
Fake News The problem of so-called fake news is well known, yet we seem no closer to solving it. Social media is a major source of these falsehoods. Twitter, in particular, is responsible for much of...
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3 Takeaways From Elon Musk's SXSW Talk (and One Song)
Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk loves surprises, and his appearance for a Q&A session at this year's South by Southwest conference (SXSW) is perhaps one of the most entertaining shows we've seen from...
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The WHO Is on the Lookout for the Disease That May Be the Next Global Pandemic
A Mysterious Global Pandemic? As far as the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned, there's a looming threat of an as-yet-unknown international epidemic — one that could potentially be deadly. In...
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3 Things You Need to Know About the Controversy Over Google's Quick-Loading...
Ah, the 90s. The clothes were loud, the rom-coms cheesy (but also the best). Oh, and the internet? Insanely slow. Pages loaded line by line — or, worse, pixel by pixel. It was hard to do more than...
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This Bot Wants To Pay People When Their Flights Get Cheaper
Remember that online artificial intelligence (AI) that helped people dispute their parking tickets? Well, DoNotPay — the parking lawyer chatbot developed by Stanford University student Joshua Browder a...
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Scientists Have an Experiment to See If the Human Mind Is Bound to the...
Spooky Action Perhaps one of the most intriguing and interesting phenomena in quantum physics is what Einstein referred to as a "spooky action at a distance" — also known as quantum entanglement. This...
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Uber Plans to Take Ridesharing to the Skies. Meet the VTOL Flying Car
Vertiports and Vertistops Uber is proving that it's more than just a modern chauffeur service. With its self-driving taxis and, more recently, driverless truck deliveries, it's revealed itself to be a...
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Scientists Developed a Vaccine That Could Protect 350 Million Lives
Nanoparticle Vaccine A study published in the journal, PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease, details how a team of researchers at the University of Carolina successfully vaccinated mice against a serotype...
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Scientists Say That Caffeine Has More Pain-Relieving Power Than Morphine
Sleep and Pain Coffee is full of surprises, and one more was uncovered this week by researchers from the Boston Children's Hospital (BCH). They found that coffee's secret weapon, caffeine, and another...
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Vacuum Tube-Era Tech is Ushering in a New Generation of Superfast Devices
Don't Call It A Comeback (or Do) Since the invention of microelectronic devices like transistors and the integrated circuit in the 1940s and '50s, semiconductors have been the backbone of electronics....
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India's Chandrayaan-2 Has More Power Than NASA's Apollo Missions, But Cheaper
Costs and Effects Not everything worthwhile has to be pricey, or so the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) wants to prove with its planned Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon. Although it's the...
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The Boring Company Isn't Just Digging Tunnels. They're Building a Hyperloop.
The Hype Is Real The Hyperloop's story is going full circle, returning to the man who first encouraged the idea: Elon Musk. Four years after releasing the white paper that started the modern Hyperloop...
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Physics Breakthrough: Quasiparticle Formation Was Observed for the First Time...
Understanding Quasiparticles A quasiparticle is a concept of a state or phenomena that occurs in many-body systems or solid-state materials — like when an electron moves through a solid and polarizes...
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Tesla's Model 3 is More Than a Car. It's a Revolution.
The Lucky 30 On Friday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk held a special event to hand over the keys for Tesla's new Model 3 to the EV's first 30 customers. The very first Model 3 owner was Musk himself, of...
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