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• Intel to publicly share its gender and race pay gap data by the end of 2019

  Intel has pledged to voluntarily release its employee pay data to the public, broken down by race and gender, later this ...

  • Cara Curtis

• These new implants are helping us link our brains to computers

  Cyborgs are no longer science fiction. The field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) – which use electrodes, often implanted ...

  • The Conversation

• Windows users can now use Yubico's security keys to log in to their PCs

  Swedish company Yubico has announced that its hardware security keys can now be used to login to a local Windows OS account. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Pixel 4's 'Face Unlock' works even if you're asleep or dead -- and that's a problem

  Google’s new Pixel 4 smartphone doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor. Instead it relies on “Face Unlock,” a proprietary facial scanning system similar to the one found in Apple’s Face ID. Early reports show a system that works well, perhaps too well, in fact, according to some ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Study: Facial recognition AI's alright, if you're cisgender and white

  I'm a cisgender white male. I can unlock my phone, sign into my bank account, and breeze through border patrol check points using my face with 98 percent accuracy. Facial recognition software is great for people who look like me. Sure, I still face the same existential dangers ...

  • Tristan Greene

• NASA finally launches unisex spacesuit — preventing more spacewalk let-downs

  On Tuesday, NASA showed off the space agency’s latest, most diverse spacesuit yet. It was created specially for NASA’s ...

  • Cara Curtis

• New cryptomining malware uses WAV audio files to conceal its tracks

  A new campaign discovered by security researchers from BlackBerry Cylance show that cybercriminals are hiding cryptojacking ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 88% of Chinese workers trust a bot over their human boss

  A study published on Tuesday found that 88 percent of Chinese workers have more trust in robots than their human managers ...

  • Cara Curtis

• The UK's controversial porn block law has been scrapped for good

  The UK government has scrapped a controversial plan to require age verification for accessing porn online, after repeated ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Autonomous 'Mayflower' to sail across the Atlantic 400 years after the original

  The Mayflower set sail from England in 1620 carrying approximately 130 Pilgrims across the Atlantic ocean to The New World. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• NASA charged taxpayers $5M for SpaceX safety review after Elon Musk got high

  Remember when Elon Musk got high with Joe Rogan during an interview last year? It seemed like good, legal fun at the time. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Cryptojacking worm uses Docker to infect over 2,000 systems to secretly mine Monero

  Unit 42 researchers have uncovered the first-ever instance of a new cryptojacking worm called Graboid that propagates via ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan