- Walmart will use VR headsets to train all of its US employees
- Satellite uses giant net to trap spinning bit of space junk
- Facebook is being sued for hiding job ads from women
- World’s first hydrogen-powered trains are now running in Germany
- Uber and Lyft are both rolling out new ways to beat city congestion
- Machines will do more work than humans by 2025, says the WEF
- IKEA designs future autonomous cars that work as hotels, stores and meeting rooms
- Don’t just ditch Facebook—start your own social-media site instead
- New York’s damning report on crypto exchanges will be good for the industry
- Algorithms can turn any scene into a comic
- Blockchains could help clean up the planet—if they don’t become environmental problems themselves
- SpaceX’s first lunar tourist didn’t just buy a seat on the rocket. He bought the whole flight.
- Self-driving trucks have a bright future in Florida
- This algorithm generates tumors to help fight cancer
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending September 15, 2018)
- “Hundreds” of crimes will soon be solved using DNA databases, genealogist predicts
- Amazon facing probe from EU’s competition watchdog over sales data
- China’s leaders are softening their stance on AI
- Musk’s tweets spark criminal investigation in latest setback for Tesla
- Future robo-taxis could charge themselves and help balance the electric grid
- Facebook might finally be making progress against fake news – but Twitter needs to do more
- Google’s search engine for China would link searches to phone numbers
- Artificial intelligence is often overhyped—and here’s why that’s dangerous
- Facebook beefs up its defense against election interference