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5 Easy New Year’s Tech Resolutions
The start of a new year is the perfect time to rehabilitate bad habits. While some choose exercise or learning […]
World’s First ‘Fly And Drive’ Car To Be Unveiled In Miami
The world’s first ‘fly and drive’ car will be unveiled Tuesday night in Miami. It’s called Pioneer Personal Air Landing […]
Researchers Say ‘Hundreds of Millions of People’ May Have Had Their Text Messages Exposed Online
A massive database storing tens of millions of SMS text messages, most of which were sent by businesses to potential customers, has […]
World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unveils Rule Book for Responsibility on the Internet
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee released an ambitious rule book for online governance — a bill of rights and […]
Airbus-Backed Tournament Unveils First Electric Racing Aircraft
An Airbus-backed air racing tournament unveiled an electric-powered sports aircraft on Sunday, billed as the world’s first, as the European […]
Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, Says Rise of Killer Robots is ‘Unstoppable’
The rise of killer robots is now unstoppable and a new digital Geneva Convention is essential to protect the world from the […]
Technology Pioneer Hao Li Says ‘Perfectly Real’ Deepfakes Will Arrive in 6 Months to a Year
Manipulated images and videos that appear “perfectly real” will be accessible to everyday people in “half-a-year to a year,” deepfake […]
AI-Generated Faces Look Like Real Life Humans
A designer has created 100,000 artificially-intelligent headshots leaving the internet freaked out over how realistic they are. Many of the […]
Google Says Hackers Have Put ‘Monitoring Implants’ in iPhones for Years
An unprecedented iPhone hacking operation, which attacked “thousands of users a week” until it was disrupted in January, has been revealed by […]
The Next Hot Job is Pretending to Be a Robot
Michael Niedermayer used to fly drones for the U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency, gathering real-time, life-and-death intelligence on […]
What Happened When Leading Visionaries Met at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma, two of the leading luminaries […]
Tech Giants Want to Read Our Thoughts – and the Implications Are Frightening
Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant […]
Steve Jobs Look-Alike Sparks New Apple Conspiracy Theories
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died in 2011 at age 56, eight years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. But a recent photo of […]
Russian Capsule Carrying Robot Fails Space Station Docking
A Russian space capsule carrying a humanoid robot has failed to dock as planned with the International Space Station. A […]
Russia Sends Its First Humanoid Robot Fedor Into Space
Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist […]
Robots at World Conference in China Can Fly, Swim, and Do Brain Surgery
Cutting-edge robots are on display at the 2019 World Robot Conference in Beijing, running from August 20 to 25, are expected […]
Facebook Considering Spying on Encrypted WhatsApp Messages
Facebook is considering using on-device AI algorithms to scan and moderate content in its WhatsApp messaging service to enforce its […]
