Space stations: our future among the stars
Once the International Space Station is decommissioned in 2028, what will the next generation of orbital bases look like? Continue reading… Source: TheGuardian
View Article'It might work too well': the dark art of political advertising online
Digital campaigns have evolved from banner ads 20 years ago to Cambridge Analytica harvesting our Facebook data. Has the rise of micro-targeting become a threat to democracy? Alan Gould was hitting a...
View ArticleSelf-driving Uber kills Arizona woman in first fatal crash involving pedestrian
Tempe police said car was in autonomous mode at the time of the crash and that the vehicle hit a woman who later died at a hospitalAn autonomous Uber car killed a woman in the street in Arizona, police...
View ArticleTwitter not protecting women from abuse, says Amnesty
Human rights group says trolls are winning as site has become toxic place for womenTwitter is failing to prevent online violence and abuse against women, creating a toxic environment for them, Amnesty...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook's 'mistakes' over Cambridge Analytica
Following days of silence, CEO announces Facebook will change how it shares data with third-party apps and admits ‘we made mistakes’The Cambridge Analytica saga is a scandal of Facebook’s own...
View ArticleEscaping the 2D monitor – VR arcades: a Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber has her reservations when it comes to virtual reality in gaming. This week she battles with motion sickness and visits a VR arcade in London to see if her mind can be changed. Is...
View ArticleTumblr says Russia used it for fake news during 2016 election
Site unmasks 84 accounts used by 13 people linked to Russia’s ‘troll farm’, the Internet Research Agency, and says law enforcement has been notifiedThe blogging platform Tumblr has unmasked 84 accounts...
View ArticleDeath by robot: the new mechanised danger in our changing world
As the use of autonomous machines increases in society, so too has the chance of robot-related fatalitiesWas killed last Sunday by an Uber autonomous car that hit the 49-year-old at approximately 40mph...
View ArticleFacebook logs SMS texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts
Leaving the social network after Cambridge Analytica scandal, users discover extent of data heldAs users continue to delete their Facebook accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a...
View Article'We give access to a lost world': Assassin's Creed's new life as a virtual...
What happens when you remove the fighting from a video game and turn it into an ancient world to explore? The creators of Assassin’s Creed Origins found outEven if you’re not particularly interested in...
View ArticleReady Player One: Ernest Cline on how his gamer fantasy became a Spielberg film
He dreamed up his novel about a teenage games fanatic while working for internet companies in the 90s. Cline on his real-life geek-to-riches story – and what it was really like working with Steven...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg: Facebook business chief leans out of spotlight in scandal
As Facebook faces scrutiny over data harvesting, the Lean In author and architect of the company’s controversial business model has kept a low profileIn the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data...
View ArticleHackers steal data of 150m MyFitnessPal app users
Parent firm Under Armour says email addresses and scrambled passwords among stolen dataPersonal details of about 150 million users of the MyFitnessPal app were compromised in one of the biggest hacks...
View ArticleEx-Uber boss was paid $4m by investor that acquired 17.5% stake
Emil Michael was hired by SoftBank as it invested in Uber following crisis over sexual harassment allegationsA controversial former Uber boss, who was one of the ride-hailing service’s most senior...
View ArticlePop.Up.Next transporter: ‘It’s not a car, it’s not a plane… What is it?’ |...
Part April Fool, part radical design solution… The Pop.Up.Next drone and car transporter sounds too good to be truePop.Up.Next drone and car transporterPrice Cloud cuckoo landSo, you are stuck in...
View ArticleNi no Kuni II review – kings and subjects unite for a fair deal
A king recruits his subjects, and neighbouring rulers, to share in his quest for a fairer new worldOnce the obvious decrees have been made – free sweets, everlasting school holidays! – most children,...
View ArticleGrindr shared information about users' HIV status with third parties
Company said sharing data with partners to test and optimise its platform was ‘industry practice’Gay dating app Grindr has come under fire for sharing information about users’ HIV status or locations...
View ArticleYouTube shooting: police identify woman who opened fire at HQ
Nasim Najafi Aghdam injured three people at San Francisco office before killing herselfPolice in California have named a woman who opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters in a suburb of San Francisco,...
View Article'Killer robots': AI experts call for boycott over lab at South Korea university
Academics around the world voice ‘huge concern’ over KAIST’s collaboration with defence company on autonomous weaponsArtificial intelligence researchers from nearly 30 countries are boycotting a South...
View Article'The third era of Zuck': how the CEO went from hero to humiliation
The Facebook chief has carefully crafted his image of boy genius turned mature leader. Now he’s losing controlAt this time last year, it seemed reasonable to assume that Mark Zuckerberg was taking the...
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