- Internet freedom around the world has fallen for the 8th year in a row
- Google employees are staging global walkouts over the firm’s treatment of women
- I hired a video-game coach to give me the edge in Fortnite
- Harvard just put more than 6 million court cases online to give legal AI a boost
- No, Bitcoin probably won’t doom our climate—but we have no idea how much electricity it uses
- A far-right social network called Gab has been pulled offline after the Pittsburgh shooting
- A controversial artwork created by AI has hauled in $435,000 at auction
- The US pushes to build unhackable quantum networks
- Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought
- The world’s first robot delivery service is launching in the UK
- Three paralysed men have walked again after receiving electric jolts to the spine
- RIP Kepler: NASA’s exoplanet-hunting space telescope is finally dead
- The UK will hit big tech firms with a “digital services tax” from 2020
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- Japan just gave its cryptocurrency industry legal power to police itself
- A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem”
- Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin says his creation can’t succeed unless he takes a step back
- An AI physicist can derive the natural laws of imagined universes
- These autonomous, self-assembling robots can join forces to solve problems
- Microchips are key to understanding Trump’s trade war with China
- IBM’s $34 billion purchase of Red Hat is a mega-bet on a coding revolution
- How gender bias influences Nobel Prizes
- Uber and Lyft are behind a sharp rise in US traffic deaths
- Experts are leaving Alphabet’s smart-city project over privacy concerns