UK's Online Safety Bill drops rules forcing social media to remove 'legal but harmful' content
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NASA awards $57.2m to Texas biz for 3D printing future Moon base
ICON will have to figure out how to build a machine that uses lunar regolith and operates in lunar gravity
Science29 Nov 2022 | 12
Google Health licenses its AI breast cancer screening tool to a medical biz
iCAD will have five years to bring a product to market
AI + ML29 Nov 2022 | 3
US Justice Dept reportedly checking AI rent-pricing biz RealPage
Company accused of allowing landlords to collude and artificially inflate rental prices
AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 5
Spent Chinese Long 6A rocket spews over 50 pieces of space junk
Tiangong, ISS, and SpaceX satellites will not be affected, according to China's Foreign Ministry
Science16 Nov 2022 | 9
AI analysis of dinosaur tracks suggests 'predator' may have been a herbivore
Human scientists can't agree, but computers … uh … find a way
Science16 Nov 2022 | 22
NASA's cubesat makes it to the Moon to test orbit for human visitors
After a troubled journey CAPSTONE marks Lunar Gateway for humans
Science15 Nov 2022 | 16
Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL?
In brief Plus: Amazon debuts AI warehouse robot, Midjourney releases latest ML art generator
AI + ML12 Nov 2022 | 81
You wait for an aurora on Mars and MAVEN spots two arriving at the same time
Boffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives?
Science11 Nov 2022 | 8
Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel
'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent
Science10 Nov 2022 | 18
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's arguments for new trial deemed spurious – just like her tech
Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead
Science09 Nov 2022 | 43
Microsoft's $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard under investigation by EU regulators
Officials are concerned acquisition could reduce competition and lock gamers to Xbox and Microsoft PCs
Legal09 Nov 2022 | 10
With potential hurricane approaching, NASA leaves mega-rocket on launch pad
Just call it the Sad Launch System
Science08 Nov 2022 | 19
NASA reassigns Venus boffins to save short-staffed asteroid interceptor
Need Another Special Artisan? The US space agency does
Science08 Nov 2022 | 11
Europe wants Airbnb and pals to cough up rental property logs
Holiday property landlords' vacation from regulation is coming to an end
Legal08 Nov 2022 | 49
OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub hit with lawsuit over Copilot
In brief Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more
AI + ML07 Nov 2022 | 10
NASA wheels SLS rocket out to the launchpad for another attempt to get off the ground
After two previous failures, will third time be the charm?
Science03 Nov 2022 | 19
NASA's CAPSTONE satellite is out of safe mode and on track for Moon orbit this month
Artemis orbit tester back in the pipe, five by five
Science03 Nov 2022 | 10
Watchdog urged to sniff out any collusion, deception in rent-setting algorithms
Things could get real for RealPage real fast
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
A next-gen AI protein folder that could help science? Meta's good for something
Faster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 11
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches after three-year hiatus with secret US sats
Classified mission will █████████ for ████ in █████████ until ███████████ █████
Science01 Nov 2022 | 43
Oh, great. By peering into twilight, boffins find 'planet killer' asteroids in our system
One may hit Earth, but unlikely. One could whack Venus. This is good or bad news, depending on your outlook
Science01 Nov 2022 | 17
Self-driving truck startup TuSimple ousts CEO over ties to Chinese rival
Boss denies any wrongdoing as Feds reportedly stick a probe in, too
AI + ML01 Nov 2022 | 6
Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos
In brief Plus: Why some manga and anime fans hate AI-generated art, and ex-Google boss funds AI students
AI + ML31 Oct 2022 | 26
NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth
So crazy, it just might work
Science29 Oct 2022 | 79
Privacy watchdog urges companies drop emotional analysis AI software
'They may not work yet, or indeed ever,' says ICO's deputy commissioner
AI + ML29 Oct 2022 | 15
Amazon CEO accused of trampling labor laws with anti-union comments
Surely staff organizing is Bias for Action and Think Big on those blasted leadership principles?
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 16
Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe into self-driving hype
Plus: Robo-car upstart Argo AI shuts down after automakers pull plug on funding
AI + ML27 Oct 2022 | 84
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to sell AI-generated stock images using DALL-E
Getty Images is collaborating with generative AI startup BRIA
AI + ML26 Oct 2022 | 7
Martian microbes could survive up to 280 million years buried underground
That is if they're anything like the radiation-resistant 'Conan the Bacterium' here on Earth
Science26 Oct 2022 | 31
Rent-calculating software biz accused of colluding with 'cartel' of landlords
RealPage's algorithm screwed tenants by inflating costs, it is claimed
Applications25 Oct 2022 | 50
Starlink terminals reportedly smuggled into Iran amid internet shutdowns
Don't thank Elon
Networks24 Oct 2022 | 14
Human-replacing AI startups reach $1bn unicorn status
In brief Plus: Meta builds speech-to-speech system to translate Hokkien, Waymo expands to LA, and more
AI + ML23 Oct 2022 | 3
20 years on, physicists are still figuring out anomaly in proton experiment
Anyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we're living in?
Science23 Oct 2022 | 52
Biden wants SpaceX to beam internet to Iran amid uprising
Er, did Joe forget who runs Starlink?
Networks21 Oct 2022 | 46
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water
Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf
Science21 Oct 2022 | 20
Amazon hit with $1bn claim that secretive Buy Box algorithm screws shoppers
Internet mega-souk thinks allegations are a waste of Prime
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 29
NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap
Changes follow astronaut's headgear filling with water during seven-hour star trek
Science20 Oct 2022 | 21
NASA AI shows slashing sulfur in shipping fuel cut air pollution at sea
COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too
AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 9
Jim McDivitt, NASA Apollo mission astronaut, dies at 93
Tributes paid to Air Force veteran who helped make first US spacewalk possible
Science18 Oct 2022 | 9
YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs
There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 111
NASA's Lucy probe dodges space traffic around Earth in gravity-assist flyby
Spacecraft coming through, outta the way, watch your step, we're heading to Jupiter
Science17 Oct 2022 | 5
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art
In brief Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode
AI + ML16 Oct 2022 | 39
Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one
Feature How software can help some grieve, perturb others
AI + ML15 Oct 2022 | 60
Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink
Never mind, still plenty of time to that 2023 orbital test
Science15 Oct 2022 | 53
Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada
And by worse, we mean: The endless casinos
Science14 Oct 2022 | 16
AI recruitment software is 'automated pseudoscience', Cambridge study finds
HR diversity claims via software are rot, according to boffins
AI + ML13 Oct 2022 | 112
NASA sets November date for next SLS Moon rocket delay, er, launch
Heh, prove us wrong, kids. Prove us wrong
Science12 Oct 2022 | 24
Confirmed: Asteroid shoved by Earth crash probe DART
Stand down Bruce Willis, 'first planetary defense test' a success
Science12 Oct 2022 | 39
Google Cloud to accept cryptocurrencies as payment
GCN Plus: AI services, security tools and more from Google Cloud Next this week
PaaS + IaaS11 Oct 2022 | 11
NASA regains control of CAPSTONE lunar orbiter after a tumble
Pinging something missing on a network is frustrating enough, imagine if it's out in space
Science11 Oct 2022 | 8
Lab explores dystopian future of AI helping cops catch criminals
In brief Plus: US AI Bill of Rights, and a new framework to run models on AMD and Nvidia GPUs more flexibly
AI + ML08 Oct 2022 | 11
If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics
Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications
Science06 Oct 2022 | 73
Nuh-uh, Meta, we can do text-to-video AI, too, says Google
Brace yourself for a weird future where everything is imagined by magic sand we taught how to think
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 5
AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack
If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models?
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 19
Physics Nobel Prize in a superposition between three quantum physicists
How apt
Science05 Oct 2022 | 42
Rather than take the L, Amazon sues state that dared criticize warehouse safety
Somebody missed the memo – this internet giant always gets its own way
On-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 57
Someone's at last helping AI models understand those with speech disabilities
Welsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that
AI + ML04 Oct 2022 | 16
This rumor needs to Die Hard: Bruce Willis denies selling face to deepfake biz
Superstar is still exclusively a meat popsicle
Bootnotes04 Oct 2022 | 16
Text-to-image models are so last month, text-to-video is here
In brief Plus: Did Bruce Willis sell his image rights to AI biz creating deepfakes? And more
AI + ML01 Oct 2022 | 17
Biting the hand that feeds IT
