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- A food delivery robot burst into flames—and now people have made a candlelit vigil for it
- Batteries that could let electric cars drive twice as far just got closer
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- China has never had a real chip industry. Making AI chips could change that.
- Virgin Galactic has reached suborbital space for the first time
- New York’s new wage law for Uber drivers is a lesson for cities around the world
- China is racing ahead in 5G. Here’s what that means.
- Why China’s electric car industry is leaving Detroit, Japan and Germany in the dust
- The world reaches a deal to advance the Paris climate accord, barely
- These incredibly real fake faces show how algorithms can now mess with us
- Does dark matter really cause skin cancer? Have a guess.
- At least 15 central banks are serious about getting into digital currency
- Bees that wear tiny sensor-filled backpacks could monitor farms all day long
- All automated hiring software is prone to bias by default
- Help us pick the young innovators who are changing our world
- A short drive across the Pacific
- The Reunion: a new science-fiction story about surveillance in China
- Facebook’s new privacy blunder may have exposed your private photos
- Google will stop providing face recognition—but it will be hard to slow it’s use
- Postmates has launched a delivery robot that will bring lunch to your door
- Ethereum thinks it can change the world. It’s running out of time to prove it.
- Signing the Paris climate deal was the easy part. We’re failing at the hard part.