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Week of March 11
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Business Impact
A second 737 Max crash raises questions about airplane automation
Regulators, airlines, and Boeing need to grapple with how much information pilots are given as systems become more complex.
Zuckerberg’s new privacy essay shows why Facebook needs to be broken up
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand what privacy means—he can’t be trusted to define it for the rest of us.
Connectivity
The man behind that Apollo boot print
Lunar soil expert David Carrier is to thank for the iconic photo of some of the first steps on the moon.
Blockchain boosters warn that regulatory uncertainty is harming innovation
The pace of progress in the digital asset industry has officials struggling to keep up.
Intelligent Machines
The 10 worst technologies of the 21st century
We all make mistakes sometimes.
Quantum computing should supercharge this machine-learning technique
Certain machine-learning tasks could be revolutionized by more powerful quantum computers.
Drones that perch like birds could go on much longer flights
A simple gripping mechanism allows unmanned aerial vehicles to save energy by resting on ledges and poles.
China may overtake the US with the best AI research in just two years
The number of influential AI research papers coming from China is increasing rapidly, a data analysis shows.
The man who helped invent virtual assistants thinks they’re doomed without a new AI approach
Boris Katz has spent his career trying to help machines master language. He believes that current AI techniques aren’t enough to make Siri or Alexa truly smart.
Rewriting Life
CRISPR experts are calling for a global moratorium on heritable gene editing
Some of the biggest names in gene editing want to stop anyone from playing around with cells that pass on changes to the next generation.
23andMe thinks polygenic risk scores are ready for the masses, but experts aren’t so sure
A new genetic test that estimates your risk for diabetes is probably less useful than standing on a scale.
Popular this week
A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality
Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.
The collision of two distant galaxies was caught in this new Hubble image
Quantum computing should supercharge this machine-learning technique
Certain machine-learning tasks could be revolutionized by more powerful quantum computers.
Zuckerberg’s new privacy essay shows why Facebook needs to be broken up
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand what privacy means—he can’t be trusted to define it for the rest of us.
The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
Complexity science explains why efforts to reject the mainstream merely result in a new conformity.
Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading
The rogue code can disable safety systems designed to prevent catastrophic industrial accidents. It was discovered in the Middle East, but the hackers behind it are now targeting companies in North America and other parts of the world, too.
North Korea’s military has stolen more than half a billion dollars in cryptocurrency
A second 737 Max crash raises questions about airplane automation
Regulators, airlines, and Boeing need to grapple with how much information pilots are given as systems become more complex.
This NASA image captures the exact moment two jets went supersonic
Thousands of people are protesting Russia’s new internet bill
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