- Twitter picks researchers to help it clean up users’ conversations
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending July 28, 2018)
- The latest blockchain use case: anonymously betting on public-figure death pools
- Therapists are augmenting eating disorder treatment with virtual reality headsets
- Report: AI is the new space race and the US needs a “Sputnik moment”
- Toronto is the center of new technology jobs in North America
- Hordes of research robots could be hijacked for fun and sabotage
- SpaceX has entered a new stage of reusability
- Genetic genealogy is now solving recent crimes, not just cold cases
- Why the SEC thinks Bitcoin still isn’t ready for the big time
- Lawmakers will look more closely at facial-recognition software after being mistaken for criminals
- Drug giant invests $300 million in 23andMe and the promise of genetics
- Radar has found liquid water on Mars, but don’t expect anyone to drink it
- Russian hackers could switch America’s lights off
- White House moving ahead with plans to unravel vehicle emissions standards, including California’s
- Waymo racks up a million autonomous miles in one month
- Robots are working for Sweden’s banking industry
- Americans are okay with gene-editing embryos to create healthier babies
- How one climate scientist combats threats and misinformation from chemtrail conspiracists
- In blow to new tech, European court decides CRISPR plants are GMOs
- Facebook is setting up shop in China
- Iris scanner can distinguish dead eyeballs from living ones
- Facebook is creating an internet satellite
- Nerves repaired using bioscaffold fitted with “radio” antenna