Designer Baby Milestone

If it can be done, it will be done. That’s one of the cautions about technology. In this case, someone Continue reading →

Legal AI Personhood

AIs are already gaining citizenship rights. A few countries are experimenting with the idea, particularly in countries that have trouble Continue reading →

Assassin Drones Arrive

It didn’t succeed, but it demonstrated the possibility, a quadcopter like the ones used for fun and photos was used Continue reading →

Computers See Through Walls

And another privacy barrier falls, or effectively becomes transparent. Computers can now use the ambient radio signals that permeate most Continue reading →

Psychopathic AI

What could possibly go wrong? Researchers at MIT developed a psychopathic artificial intelligence. They did it on purpose to study Continue reading →

Do Lab Grown Brains Think

Medicine advances quickly enough that something miraculous years ago is now considered normal. Remember the debates over various fertilization procedures? Continue reading →

Autonomous Auto Kills Pedestrian

This is the inevitable milestone. An autonomous vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian. The car had a safety driver (Uber), Continue reading →

Staying Home Saves Energy

It sounds obvious, in retrospect. In the last hundred years, American transportation has changed from horses to cars to staying Continue reading →