- We won’t use CRISPR to make super-smart babies—but only because we can’t
- We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables
- The first artificial meteor shower is about to be tested in space
- A country’s ambitious plan to teach anyone the basics of AI
- The technique that taught AI to play Go still can’t teach a car to drive
- We could still prevent 1.5 ˚C of warming – but we almost certainly won’t
- One day your voice will control all your gadgets, and they will control you
- Facebook has just launched its fact-checking operation in the UK
- Millions of email addresses have been exposed—here’s how to check if yours was one of them
- A robot dog has learned to run faster with machine learning
- CERN wants to build a particle collider that’s four times bigger than the LHC
- A relaxation of US rules will let drones fly at night and over people
- This Ikea kitchen might teach industrial robots to be less dumb and more helpful
- Lime is pulling its scooters in Switzerland after a possible software glitch made people fall off
- China will now officially try to extend its Great Firewall to blockchains
- The formation of a black hole or neutron star has been recorded for the first time
- Most people don’t know what Facebook knows about them
- Ethereum’s got a hard forking problem thanks to another delayed upgrade
- The US government shutdown might be making crypto winter even worse
- The magnetic north pole is messing with your smartphone’s mapping apps
- Parents, avert your eyes: screens aren’t as bad for kids as you think
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending January 12, 2019)
- Hate lawyers? Can’t afford one? Blockchain smart contracts are here to help.
- The US government shutdown is almost certainly delaying SpaceX’s crucial launch