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AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong
A space elevator is possible with today’s technology, researchers say (we just need to dangle it off the moon)
If we spend $1.7 trillion on climate adaptation we could make four times that much back
MIT Technology Review: Anonymous and Unstoppable DNS
Apple says China’s Uighur Muslims were targeted in the recent iPhone hacking campaign
What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease?
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
The world’s most advanced nanotube computer may keep Moore’s Law alive
Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google
Facebook is training an AI inside Minecraft, which Facebook says is the perfect place for the AI to learn a wide variety of tasks
5 reasons why NASA’s 2024 moon landing looks unlikely
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
A super-secure quantum internet just took another step closer to reality
Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time
Hindu Nationalists flooding TikTok to troll Kashmiri women in Kashmir conflict – MIT
A new clothing line confuses automated license plate readers
Teen video app TikTok is the latest battlefield in the Kashmir conflict
16 million Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency – MIT Technology Review
A look at Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that helps seniors and entrepreneurs over 65 use technology to work and make money
FireEye: Chinese state-backed hacker group APT41 hacks video-game companies and sells virtual game currencies on the dark web as a side hustle
A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts
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.
China has started a grand experiment in AI education
Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China
Instead of practicing, this AI mastered chess by reading about it
Facebook is funding brain experiments to create a device that reads your mind
An algorithm that evolved killer Starcraft bots is training self-driving cars
A light sentence for a famous hacker has actually made the world safer
Forget the fine—we should have taken Facebook to court, says FTC commissioner
You’re very easy to track down, even when your data has been anonymized
If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?
Researchers shed light on how WeChat censors images in private chats automatically in real time by using a massive and growing index of MD5 cryptographic hashes
Elon Musk’s brain-interface company is promising big news. Here’s what it could be. We think Neuralink, which develops brain-machine interfaces, is recording from the neurons of monkeys as a stepping stone toward humans.
Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages
Amazon is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown.
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