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• Scientists used stem cells to create a new life-form: Organic robots

  Straight out of the 1990s and the plot of Jurassic Park, a team of scientists have successfully created an entirely new life-form using stem cells derived from frog embryos. The new species is called a xenobot and it's unlike anything else in nature. The researchers call it a “living ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Here's how body clock cycles affect our immune system

  All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and night. The details differ between plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals, but the consistent feature is a biological “clock” that allows the organism to anticipate ...

  • The Conversation

• How developers will work in 2020

  Software development is perpetually in a state of flux. Coders are constantly fighting a battle to keep their skills relevant. ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• 5G isn't going to save you from cable broadband anytime soon

  Recent proposals by the UK Labour Party to nationalize the country’s cable broadband network prompted debate about the best way to make sure everyone has a fast home internet connection. Traditionally, governments have looked for ways to expand and upgrade their cable networks so ...

  • The Conversation

• Elon Musk says Tesla's early access group will get Full Self Driving 'soon'

  Elon Musk is tweeting about Full Self Driving again. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1216030166733901826 Full Self Driving is an upcoming Tesla feature that currently exists in an unfinished form. According to Musk, the feature will eventually make it possible for a Tesla ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Russian military hackers go after the Ukrainian quid that Trump tried to pro quo

  The 2020 US Presidential campaign has officially kicked off in Russia. Russian leader Vladmir Putin's military hackers recently launched a successful phishing campaign against employees at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the 'quid pro quo' scandal that lead to ...

  • Tristan Greene

• RIP Windows 7: Microsoft ends support today

  Pack up your things, Windows 7 users. It's time to move on, as Microsoft today ends support of the venerable OS. So to the millions of people still running the OS: now's really, truly the time to upgrade. According to Microsoft's end-of-support article for the OS, your Windows ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Podcast revolution: The rise of audio storytelling

  The state of audio drama in 2020 is wildly different from ten years ago when audio, or rather radio drama, was in decline across much of the English-speaking world. Drama had been dropped from radio stations in the US, was being phased out from popular listening in Canada, and faced ...

  • The Conversation

• Apple starts replacement program for faulty iPhone battery cases

  Apple has opened a replacement program for iPhone battery cases, specifically those for the iPhones XS, XS Max, and XR. So ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Trump's chief technology officer is treating AI regulation like the net neutrality repeal

  Did you ever notice how the Trump administration's chief science and technology officer Michael Kratsios never talks while ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The benefits of facial recognition AI are being wildly overstated

  Facial recognition technology has run amok across the globe. In the US it continues to perpetuate at an alarming rate despite ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why machines should have rights, just like humans

  Like it or loathe it, the robot revolution is now well underway and the futures described by writers such as Isaac Asimov, ...

  • The Conversation