August 21, 2019 Researchers create electronic lens that works better than the human eye A new breakthrough could soon revolutionize the design of almost every optical instrument in use today, including cameras, eyeglasses and telescopes. Combining recent developments…
August 21, 2019 YouTube AI thought robot fighting was animal cruelty In the latest example of the need for further human moderation, YouTube's automated system took down several videos after mistaking robot fighting matches as…
August 21, 2019 Gmail AI will automatically correct your spelling slip-ups Google Docs' AI corrections are spreading to Gmail. Google is rolling out a feature in G Suite that will autocorrect "common" spelling errors while…
August 21, 2019 Porn bots are now storming Twitter’s trending topics Instagram isn't the only social media app being invaded by porn bots. Now they're on Twitter, too. For the past few days, as I…
August 21, 2019 Online sneaker reseller StockX faces lawsuit over data breach StockX is now facing legal action over a data breach that led to the theft of more than 6.8 million customer records. A class-action…
August 21, 2019 SiriusXM’s student plan only costs $4 per month SiriusXM thinks it has a simple way to get the back-to-school crowd listening to radio: offer it at an extremely steep discount. The satellite…
August 21, 2019 ‘Telling Lies’ is bigger, but not better, than ‘Her Story’ In Her Story, developer Sam Barlow did a rare thing: He created a new video game format. Four years later, he's made Telling Lies,…
August 21, 2019 An old Instagram hoax is back, and it’s duping celebrities An Instagram hoax that first circulated in 2012 is back, and celebrities from Usher to Waka Flocka Flame, Julianne Moore, Julia Roberts and Rob…
August 21, 2019 What’s coming to Netflix in September: ‘The Politician’ and ‘The Spy’ We're edging into the final embers of the summer and as the weather starts to turn for many of us, we'll perhaps find ourselves…
August 21, 2019 Watch astronauts install commercial spacecraft adapter on the ISS NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan are floating around in low Earth orbit today, installing the second of two docking adapters on the…