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• Report: People are going to have a lot of sex in self-driving cars

  It's clear that driverless cars will revolutionize the way we get from Point A to Point B. Perhaps less obvious is how it'll change our sex lives. According to a new study by the Annals of Tourism Research, ditching the driver could open up a whole lot of doors for transit-related ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook's former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News

  Facebook's recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. The company, Definers Public Affairs, made headlines this week after a bombshell New York Times report revealed that it was employed by Facebook to dig up dirt ...

  • Bryan Clark

• A beginner’s guide to AI: Human-level machine intelligence

  TNW's continuing series on artificial intelligence reaches its fifth installment with A beginnger's guide to human-level ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Twitter says the Bitcoin scam wave came from third-party app

  Twitter has confirmed the string of cryptocurrency-related hackings on its platform originated from a third-party app – ...

  • Mix

• Details of 170,000 Pakistani debit cards leaked on dark web

  Last week, nearly 20,000 pakistani cards were on the dark web. Now, cybersecurity firm Group-IB has found out that a whopping ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The Bitcoin Cash hash war has no real winners

  Bitcoin Cash underwent a messy blockchain split that forked its network into two new, competing cryptocurrencies. So which ...

  • Mix

• Blockchain hard forks explained as quickly as possible

  There's a fairly concrete principle for what a hard fork is and does. This article will try to explain this, as simply as ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Facebook removed 1.5 billion fake accounts between April and September

  Facebook released its community standards report today, in which it detailed how it dealt with fake news, spam, hate speech, and terrorist propaganda on its platform. The company noted that, between April and September 2018, it removed a whopping 1.5 billion fake accounts. The ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• SCUF's Vantage PS4 controller: A lot of issues and a big price tag [Update]

  I love SCUF controllers. Or, more accurately, I love all of them but this one. As the proud owner of two of the Infinity4PS ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Researchers create 'master key' fingerprints that can fool biometric databases

  Researchers from New York University have created a set of master fingerprint keys that can be used to spoof biometric identification ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• When you wish upon an algorithm: Will Sophia ever be real?

  TNW interviewed Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, Chief Scientist at Hanson Robotics, and the human responsible for Sophia ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Microsoft launches cloud-based development kit for blockchain

  Big tech is getting in on blockchain in a big way. Microsoft has launchd its cloud-based blockchain development kit powered ...

  • Mix