Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot raises serious concerns – but probably not the ones you think
Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it...
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Robots are coming and the fallout will largely harm marginalized communities
Those who are most affected in the labour market by robots are those who tend to already be marginalized. (AP...
Lockdown: mobile data suggests Europeans may not have followed rules as strictly in the second wave
Antonio Guillem/ShutterstockLooking around, it sometimes seems like COVID-19 restrictions aren’t being adhered to like they were a year ago. In...
Mobile apps might make you feel better about travelling alone, but they won’t necessarily make you safer
Generally speaking the risks of sexual assault or homicide from an unknown male perpetrator in a public place are low....
Pythagoras’ revenge: humans didn’t invent mathematics, it’s what the world is made of
Geralt / PixabayMany people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a...
Facebook has a misinformation problem, and is blocking access to data about how much there is and who is affected
How big of a problem is misinformation on social media? Without key data, the picture is blurry. Anadolu Agency via...
Bitcoin halving Q&A: what it’s all about and what it means for the cryptocurrency
Bitcoin miners will not get less for their efforts. ShutterstockBitcoin, the first and leading cryptocurrency in terms of trading volume...
Why artificial intelligence is likely to kill again: the example of self-driving cars
Geralt/PixabayArtificial neurons for deeply intelligent machines – this is the new artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, led by Geoffrey Hinton and...
NZ is introducing mandatory record keeping to help contact tracers. But is the data protected enough?
Dave Simpson/WireImageFrom 11:59pm on Tuesday September 7, every person in Aotearoa New Zealand over the age of 12 will be...
Why Huawei security concerns cannot be removed from US-China relations
astudio / Shutterstock.comHuawei’s role in building new 5G networks has become one of the most controversial topics in current international...
