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• Study shows Facebook users still don’t understand tracking

  The Pew Research Center today released the results of its latest survey of Facebook users, this time about the ad categories they've been assigned by the site's algorithms. The users' surprising ignorance of the information Facebook accrues highlights the disconnect between the platform ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facial recognition struggles to interpret the emotions of black faces

  Facial recognition technology has progressed to a point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type ...

  • The Conversation

• India's space agency is aiming to create world's first rocket with two reusable stages

  ISRO – India's space agency is aiming to develop world's first two-stage reusable rocket before SpaceX to set a historical ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Why AI can't solve everything

  The hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. There seems to be no shortage of sensationalist news about how AI could cure diseases, accelerate human innovation and improve human creativity. Just looking at the media headlines, you might think that we ...

  • The Conversation

• Hyundai's four-legged car isn't the future we imagined, but we'll take it

  It’s clear at this point that the future of the automotive world revolves around bleeding edge technology that’s self-driving or, perhaps, even flying. But what if it’s none of those things? What if it’s a car that walks on four legs? Hyundai puzzled CES audiences the world ...

  • Bryan Clark

• WordPress announces a toolkit to kickstart small to mid-sized newsrooms

  WordPress, the open source CMS that powers nearly one-third of the web, is now looking to streamline newsrooms around the world. In 2019, we’ll see a new commitment to small and medium-sized publishers with a toolkit called Newspack. Born of a partnership between WordPress and ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Stop worrying about AI taking over the world — it won’t

  Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: ...

  • The Conversation

• Apple says Qualcomm refused to supply chips for the next iPhone

  In the latest episode of the Apple v Qualcomm battle, the Cupertino-based company’s COO, Jeff Williams, said the chipmaker ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• US Army's defense of killer robots sounds like the plot to War Games

  The US Army has an incongruous message on its development of autonomous weapons systems. Did we learn nothing from the 1980s? ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 2019: The year Nvidia gets serious about robots

  Nvidia's new robotics lab in Seattle just had its grand opening. This could signifiy a huge shift in the domestic robots ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why researchers want to build an AI that can predict a person’s attractiveness

  It's an age-old question – what makes someone attractive? We often say things like “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” ...

  • The Conversation

• China's moon landing could launch a new space race

  China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on January 2. But, more importantly, it became the first to do ...

  • The Conversation