Thousands of Facebook Groups Go Secret in Fear of the Great ‘Zuccing’
Mass panic is the reason all of your Facebook groups just went secret.

May 16, 2019 at 05:23PM
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AI Engineers Have Recreated Joe Rogan’s Voice To A Tee, And We’re Terrified For The Future
We’re too distracted thinking about the societal implications of human-like voice synthesis to chuckle at the elk meat jokes.

May 16, 2019 at 03:02PM
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The Quest To Make A Bot That Can Smell As Well As A Dog
The dogs still make Andreas Mershin angry. “I mean, I love dogs,” says the Greek-Russian scientist, in his office at MIT. “But the dogs are slapping me in the face.”

May 16, 2019 at 01:35PM
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What Does A Particle Collider Sound Like?
Scientists explore the limits of physics by pumping energy into components of atoms, such as electrons and protons, accelerating them to nearly the speed of light, and slamming the beams of particles together in hopes of discovering something new. You can imagine that this process gets quite noisy.

May 16, 2019 at 10:33AM
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Apple And Google Should Steal These Ingenious Smartphone Concepts
Simple physical gestures could give users more control over the way their smartphones work.

May 16, 2019 at 08:14AM
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Stuttering In The Age Of Alexa
Amazon has an accessibility problem that quietly affects 70 million people worldwide.

May 16, 2019 at 08:14AM
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Behind The Technologies That Allow Self-Driving Cars To ‘See’
How do self-driving cars maneuver around obstacles even in low visibility?

May 15, 2019 at 02:22PM
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In The Lab With The Team Developing The World’s First 3D Color X-Rays
When you understand the science, it’s sort of surprising no one thought of this earlier.

May 15, 2019 at 02:22PM
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How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just A Phone Call
A new report alleges that an Israeli spy firm developed a WhatsApp exploit that could inject malware onto targeted phones — and steal data from them — simply by calling them. The targets didn’t need to pick up to be infected, and the calls often left no trace on the phone’s log.

May 15, 2019 at 11:12AM
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What Happened With Supermicro?
Back in October 2018, Bloomberg reported that some motherboards made by Supermicro had malicious components on them that were used to spy or interfere with the operation of the board, and that these motherboards were found on servers used by Amazon and Apple. Now it’s time to look at how things shook out.

May 15, 2019 at 08:01AM
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