We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables

  Hacker News   ·   1 hour ago

Most Americans think they’re being constantly tracked—and that there’s nothing they can do. More than 60% of Americans think it’s impossible to go through daily life without being tracked by companies or the government, according to a new Pew Research study.

  Reddit   ·   2 hours ago

Turning the mathematics of vector calculus into simple pictures

  Hacker News   ·   2 days ago

Amazon’s plan for Alexa

  Hacker News   ·   5 days ago

Chinese Scientists are making Human Monkey hybrids

  Reddit   ·   6 days ago

The world’s first Gattaca baby tests are finally here: The DNA test claims to let prospective parents weed out IVF embryos with a high risk of disease or low intelligence.

  Reddit   ·   1 week ago

Google, non-profit lowRISC, and others debut OpenTitan, a project for open sourced "root of trust" chip designs, aiming for more secure, auditable datacenters

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

China’s leaders have embraced blockchains (er, minus the decentralized bit) – MIT Technology Review

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Microsoft has beaten Amazon to the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster

  Hacker News   ·   3 weeks ago

Facebook should at least label lying political ads

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. – MIT Technology Review

  Pinboard   ·   4 weeks ago

Why France is eyeing nuclear power again: the nation asked its major utility to make plans for six huge reactors.

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

We’re going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to deflect it

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

A game made with a real world dataset of defendants shows the shortcomings of COMPAS, an AI-powered risk assessment tool used in the US criminal legal system

  Techmeme   ·   4 weeks ago

MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

A brain-controlled exoskeleton has let a paralyzed man walk in the lab

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

PayPal has backed out of Facebook’s digital currency project – MIT Technology Review

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

YouTube is experimenting with ways to make its algorithm even more addictive – MIT Technology Review

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Google has released a giant database of deepfakes to help fight deepfakes

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Google researchers have achieved "Quantum Supremacy", reaching the point where a computer is shown to be capable of performing a task that’s beyond the reach of even the most powerful conventional supercomputer.

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

An important quantum algorithm may be a property of nature

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

A space elevator is possible with today’s technology, researchers say (we just need to dangle it off the moon)

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

If we spend $1.7 trillion on climate adaptation we could make four times that much back

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

MIT Technology Review: Anonymous and Unstoppable DNS

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Apple says China’s Uighur Muslims were targeted in the recent iPhone hacking campaign

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease?

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Scholars have resigned from MIT Media Lab over post-2010 financing from Jeffrey Epstein; its founder, Nicholas Negroponte, says it was right to take the money

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

The world’s most advanced nanotube computer may keep Moore’s Law alive

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

Facebook is training an AI inside Minecraft, which Facebook says is the perfect place for the AI to learn a wide variety of tasks

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

5 reasons why NASA’s 2024 moon landing looks unlikely

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Profile of Rodney Brooks, the Australian roboticist who in 1990 co-founded iRobot, which used to make robots for US army and is now popular for Roomba vacuums

    ·   3 months ago

A super-secure quantum internet just took another step closer to reality

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Hindu Nationalists flooding TikTok to troll Kashmiri women in Kashmir conflict – MIT

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

A new clothing line confuses automated license plate readers

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

Teen video app TikTok is the latest battlefield in the Kashmir conflict

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

16 million Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency – MIT Technology Review

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

A look at Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that helps seniors and entrepreneurs over 65 use technology to work and make money

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

FireEye: Chinese state-backed hacker group APT41 hacks video-game companies and sells virtual game currencies on the dark web as a side hustle

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

Why smartphones’ “cop mode” might not keep cops out for much longer – The debate over “compelled decryption” is likely headed for the US supreme court.

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

China has started a grand experiment in AI education

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Instead of practicing, this AI mastered chess by reading about it

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago