This won’t get creepy. By TIM NEWCOMB Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University can map human bodies through walls using WiFi signals. The technology tracks key points on…
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By TIM NEWCOMB It wasn’t like Duke University futurist Nita Farahany wanted to bring nonstop doom and gloom during her recent “The Battle for Your…
By TIM NEWCOMB Before we get too far into this artificial intelligence race, let’s make sure we aren’t just setting ourselves up for certain death.…
By TIM NEWCOMB The 2023 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has filled us with lots of uplifting predictions, like how companies will soon decode…
BY SOPHIE WEINER The Florida legislature granted the park extreme, unilateral control over their land. In 1965, Walt Disney began buying land for a new…
By Lynne Peskoe-Yang Audio producer Cory Choy was reporting on the 2014 Black Lives Matter protests in New York City when he first experienced sound…
BY SOPHIE WEINER Printed: 1 June 2017 Scientists have altered a living dragonfly so they can control its movements. As drone technology advances, one of the…
By KYLE MIZOKAMI For what may well be the very first time, the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China are both operating aircraft carriers…
BY COURTNEY LINDER In a December 2020 patent, Microsoft outlines a process for uploading data about a person—even the deceased—to turn their likeness into a chatbot. Microsoft…
BY CAROLINE DELBERT The U.S. continues to oppose a fiber cable that will directly link the U.S. and Hong Kong. Underwater wiretapping is as American as apple pie, but…
The “vintage racer” weapon system flew under the public’s radar for a long time. BY KYLE MIZOKAMI | JUN 9, 2020 A seemingly ordinary photo…
Well, that’s one way to do it. BY KYLE MIZOKAMI JUN 8, 2020 A Russian oil company called in the army to fight an oil…
“Cold spray” technology can speed repairs on submarines, keeping them at sea instead of the shipyard. BY KYLE MIZOKAMI JUN 2, 2020 The Australian Navy…
Earth’s magnetic north pole has shifted away from Canada and closer to Siberia at a rapid pace in recent years. Researchers believe two massive blobs on…