- Million-person genetic study finds gene patterns linked to how long people stay in school
- State-sponsored trolling is rampant throughout the world—including in the US
- A new Twitter bot helps track wildfires
- Blockchain explainer: Tokenizing Carbon Credits
- Google’s just been hit with a $5 billion antitrust fine, Europe’s biggest ever
- Coinbase is starting to look a lot like a traditional big tech company
- Robots that paint have gotten pretty impressive
- Data mining reveals fundamental pattern of human thinking
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending July 21, 2018)
- Boozy bots could serve you up your next cocktail
- Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
- Google wants to make programming quantum computers easier
- Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games
- A new report says AI will replace as many jobs as it kills—take that with a huge grain of salt
- China’s e-commerce explosion is creating massive cultural change in its rural areas
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending July 14, 2018)
- Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter will now let you transfer data between their services
- Big names in AI vow not to build autonomous weapons
- Don’t hold your breath for allergy-free cats
- Walmart wants us to believe it’s turning into a tech company
- A startup is giving away face recognition software to K-12 schools
- Turns out CRISPR editing can also vandalize genomes
- Microsoft wants the government to regulate face recognition software
- America’s indictment of Russian hackers underlines the cyber risks facing US politics