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• Chinese factories deploy AI to grow more than 6 billion roaches a year

  In what sounds like the stuff nightmares are made of, a Chinese facility is breeding roaches by the billions for use in medicinal concoctions. These "healing potions" are reportedly use to cure respiratory, gastric, and other diseases according to an official report. As South China Morning Post reporter Stephen Chen tells it: Long, narrowly spaced rows of shelves fill a multi-storey building about the size of two sports fields. The shelves are ...

  • Bryan Clark

• TNW's Big Spam: Meet the weed wizard

  Tomorrow, marijuana mogul Rosenfeld will host TNW Answers and take all your stupid questions for glorious 4/20. But TODAY he's taking over TNW's Big Spam.   Meet Socrates Tech ganjapreneur Socrates Rosenfeld is the CEO of Jane Technologies and online cannabis marketplace, Jane. ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• YouTube's still monetizing channels promoting pedophilia, Nazis, and extremist propaganda

  More then 300 companies and organizations may have received a little more for their YouTube advertising buck than they'd bargained for, according to a CNN scoop. What happened? Companies like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Adidas (among others) who paid to advertise on the platform ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Report: 2018 iPhone could cost as little as $550

  If you're in the market for a new iPhone, but the $999 price tag on the iPhone X is a little too rich for your blood, a new rumor suggests Apple may be making a new phone with you in mind. KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo -- who accurately predicted Face ID on last year's iPhone ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Robot does the unthinkable by assembling IKEA furniture in 20 minutes

  IKEA is cheap, stylish, and a superb solution for furnishing an entire dwelling on a budget. It's also the leading cause of divorce in couples who attempt to assemble its furniture at home, according to a poll I just made up for the sake of this joke. Researchers at Nanyang Technological ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Pornhub promised to ban 'deepfakes' videos. And it failed miserably.

  In February, Pornhub announced it would no longer tolerate AI-generated pornography featuring the facial features of celebrities over the bodies of adult actresses. And it's kept its promise, except... not really. As Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel says: While banned material frequently ...

  • Bryan Clark

• The US Army is developing AI that can recognize faces in the dark and through walls

  US Army researchers recently unveiled a new method for applying machine learning techniques to facial recognition using thermal ...

  • Tristan Greene

• TNW's Big Spam: I am the Master Algorithm

  OK, today we promised you a newsletter takeover from marijuana mogul Socrates Rosenfeld... sorry, it's actually tomorrow. But you can still ask him a question before his TNW Answers session on Friday (4/20).  Top trending tech news: 😮 Cambridge Analytica exec revealed ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• How your business can do good (and still make money)

  There’s an obvious disconnect between ‘business as usual’ and “business as it needs to be.” From energy to education, ...

  • Ritika Puri

• Cambridge Analytica planned to launch a cryptocurrency for selling personal data

  Cambridge Analytica once had a cryptocurrency in the works. Its plans to promote a virtual token to enable people to sell ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• One machine to rule them all: A 'Master Algorithm' may emerge sooner than you think

  Will robots dream in ones and zeros? Can they appreciate a rose by any other name? Perhaps a new class calculus will provide ...

  • Tristan Greene

• NASA's new Galactic Positioning System could lead to truly autonomous spacecraft

  NASA is taking the global out of GPS. Its new Galactic Positioning System could revolutionize space travel for people and ...

  • Tristan Greene