- Facebook is going to stop letting advertisers target by race, gender, or age
- Did DNA finger Jack the Ripper? Probably not, but old objects are ready to reveal their secrets
- An algorithm can transform your doodles into photorealistic images
- One of the biggest aluminum companies in the world is currently under cyber attack
- A “halo drive” could accelerate interstellar spacecraft to close to the speed of light
- IBM’s photo-scraping scandal shows what a weird bubble AI researchers live in
- A new face recognition privacy bill would give us more control over our data
- Boeing 737 Max jets have now been grounded in the US by an emergency order
- Google’s Stadia is a video game-streaming platform that is taking aim at consoles
- This robot learns to pick up mugs by learning a theory of mugness
- The US is building a $500m ‘exascale’ computer that will be the world’s most powerful
- A meteor exploded with ten times the energy of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending March 16, 2019)
- Facebook says it’s going to use machine learning to catch revenge porn
- DARPA is trying to build an unhackable open source voting system
- No, IBM didn’t just “reverse time” with a quantum computer
- Superconducting nanowires could be used to detect dark matter
- A drone map of lava tubes shows how we’ll go spelunking on Mars
- MySpace has lost all the music uploaded during its first 12 years
- Facebook says it has removed 1.5 million copies of the New Zealand terror attack video
- The mass shooting in New Zealand shows how broken social media is
- Trained neural nets perform much like humans on classic psychological tests
- Why clean energy won’t solve all of Bitcoin’s pollution problems
- Facebook’s data deals are now under criminal investigation