Third Gene-Hacked Baby’s Impending Birth Has Scientists Scrambling
By: Dan Robitzski May 22, 2019 Baby Shower When the now-infamous Chinese scientist He Jiankui brought twin gene-hacked baby girls into the world, the scientific community and world governments condemned his research and insisted on stronger safeguards to keep it from happening again. Now, CNBC reports that the next gene-hacked baby from He’s lab is […]
The robots are coming – and they’re (potentially) after your job
By: Ian Hall May 22, 2019 ‘You want your robot to be smarter than the other team’s robot’: advice that sounds like it belongs to a participant in combat competition TV show Robot Wars. But, actually, it’s the increasingly competitive and technology-affected situation that many investment professionals will face in the workplace – and need […]
Threat or promise? E-auto boom could cost industry jobs
By: David Mchugh May 22, 2019 Over 115 years the auto industry in the east German town of Zwickau has lived through wrenching upheavals including World War II and the collapse of communism. Now the city’s 90,000 people are plunging headlong into another era of change: top employer Volkswagen’s total shift into electric cars at […]
Robots activated by water may be the next frontier
By: Columbia University May 22, 2019 New research from the laboratory of Ozgur Sahin, associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University, shows that materials can be fabricated to create soft actuators — devices that convert energy into physical motion — that are strong and flexible, and, most important, resistant to water damage. […]
Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction
By: Amy Orben, Tobias Dienlin, and Andrew K. Przybylski May 21, 2019 Abstract In this study, we used large-scale representative panel data to disentangle the between-person and within-person relations linking adolescent social media use and well-being. We found that social media use is not, in and of itself, a strong predictor of life satisfaction across […]
The cryptocurrency startups trying to save Argentina from itself
By: Kristin Majcher May 21, 2019 A 1988 hit by the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo gave Buenos Aires a nickname that still sticks today: “La Ciudad de la Furia,” or the City of Fury. The “fury” of Buenos Aires is evident in the uneven quality of everyday life here. It’s not uncommon for strikes […]
Office worker launches UK’s first police facial recognition legal action
By: Ed Bridges, Steven Morris May 21, 2019 An office worker who believes his image was captured by facial recognition cameras when he popped out for a sandwich in his lunch break has launched a groundbreaking legal battle against the use of the technology. Supported by the campaign group Liberty, Ed Bridges, from Cardiff, raised […]
U.S. Postal Service Tests Self-Driving Trucks
By: npr May 21,2019 The U.S. Postal Service is experimenting with self-driving trucks to move mail across state lines. The USPS has partnered with San Diego-based TuSimple on a two-week pilot program focusing solely on a 1,000-mile route between Dallas and Phoenix. TuSimple’s chief product officer Chuck Price told NPR the test runs, which began […]
Amazon’s AI improves emotion detection in voices
By: Kyle Wiggers MAY 21 2019 Much can be gleaned from the tone of someone’s voice, which is a natural conduit for emotion. And emotion has a range of applications: It can aid in health-monitoring by helping detect early signs of dementia or heart attack, and it has the potential to make conversational AI systems […]