- That Atlas robot might be doing parkour now, but it still can’t chase you up the stairs
- Chinese scientists have created mice that have two moms or two dads
- 3D-printed plastic objects can track their own use without any electronics
- Waymo’s cars drive 10 million miles a day in a perilous virtual world
- NASA is using HoloLens AR headsets to build its new spacecraft faster
- We need tech to stand a chance of capping global warming at 1.5°C
- The demise of Rethink Robotics shows how hard it is to make machines truly smart
- Four Russian hackers were caught plotting to hit a chemical weapons watchdog
- Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts spewing political spam
- Astronauts make emergency landing after Soyuz rocket malfunctions on way to ISS
- Huawei announces two AI chips as China continues its move away from US silicon
- Your own robo-caller will never get bored dialling automated services for you
- Google Plus is to be shut down after private data of half a million users was exposed
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending October 6, 2018)
- China stands accused of hacking servers used by Apple, Amazon, and others
- There’s no Google Maps for self-driving cars, so this startup is building it
- The UK Parliament asking a robot to testify about AI is a dumb idea
- Data mining has revealed previously unknown Russian Twitter troll campaigns
- Amazon ditched AI recruitment software because it was biased against women
- Google’s human-like voice helper can now fend off spam callers
- The 8-dimensional space that must be searched for alien life
- A big tech company is working to free the internet from big tech companies
- Wide-scale US wind power could cause significant warming
- An app that lets you beat government censors has been launched by Alphabet