New York-based Construction Robotics has developed a bricklaying robot that can build walls six times faster than a human worker. The Semi-Automated Mason 100, nicknamed Sam, can lay up to 3,000 bricks daily compared with an average builder’s capacity of only 500 bricks a day. The robot Sam is made up of various parts including a […]

A study by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers claims that robots and artificial intelligence could take over two of every five jobs in America within about the next 15 years. The results also suggest that technology will displace both white-collar and blue-collar workers, which could push wages downward. Employees in the finance, insurance, hospitality, manufacturing, food service, and transportation […]

Before announcing the release of the Galaxy S8, Samsung has revealed that it will be reselling the Galaxy Note 7. After serious battery troubles forced the tech giant to issue a worldwide recall of the device in 2016, it appears that the Note 7 will be making a comeback. The Note 7 will be re-released […]

The European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) warns that extreme space weather can damage critical infrastructure in the European Union (EU). In their new report, researchers at the JRC identified gaps found in current industry and science policies regarding the reduction of risks related to space weather and provided recommendations that would close these gaps. […]

Bill Kochevar, 56, was left paralyzed from the shoulders down after a cycling accident severely injured his spinal cord. In the years since his accident, he had become completely reliant on his caregivers at the Cleveland VA Medical Center. But thanks to the help of a number of Cleveland institutions, the Navy veteran was able […]

Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX boss, wants to hook up the human brain to a computer. Although the details aren’t fleshed out yet, as it were, Musk evidently bought Neuralink, a California medical research start-up company to develop the technology. While some might conclude this is science fiction, Musk has long warned that rapidly advancing […]

After successfully synthesizing artificial DNA strands from Baker’s yeast using nothing but laboratory equipment and human ingenuity, scientists working as part of the so-called Synthetic Yeast Project (SC2.0) are now ready to move onto their next endeavor: The synthesis of artificial human DNA. Set to be released in just two years, the first artificial lifeforms […]

Can robots write our news? Researchers from the Media Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School mean to answer this question by launching a news site project that is entirely facilitated, managed, and propagated by robots. The project, called DPer News (Digital Personalization of the News), comes with the support of the Knowledge […]

The headline of a character assassination attempt article by a writer at Gizmodo reads, “Google Blacklists Natural News, the Web’s Leading Authority on DIY Ebola Vaccines.” Yes, Matt Novak, a journo-whore who is in love with Hillary Clinton and formerly wrote for BuzzFeed (the ultimate “science” crony liberalist-extreme huckster and shill site), is now a shill for […]

The first definition of reality, as supplied by the Oxford English Dictionary is this: The state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. Apple has added another word –” augmented” —  to spice up that original definition. As reported by The Daily Mail, Apple’s CEO Tim […]

Will humans one day be able to live forever? Google’s Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, thinks it’s a possibility. He says that living in a fleshly shell for eternity could become a reality as soon as 2029, when scientists are set to unveil special “nano-bots” that will supposedly be able to navigate throughout people’s bodies […]

When an emergency room doctor received a triage note reading “I have a tracker in me” one day last fall, he probably felt like he was in a spy movie. While psychiatric patients were not an uncommon sight in the hospital, this situation was different. The woman appeared lucid and had an incision, so the […]

Wikileaks has now posted “Identifying Hacking Targets of the CIA” which lists out “companies, products, tools, and terms that are mentioned in the Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed publication to date,” in order to inform people as to whether or not their smart phones, computers, gaming systems, television sets etc. can easily be turned […]

Scientists warn that the minerals needed for technologies such as cell phones and mobile devices may run out in the next few decades. A new study gathered experts from various government, industrial, and academic groups across five continents who suggested that unless there exists a universal sharing of geoscience data, we will soon face challenges in technology mineral […]

With all the end-to-end encryption built into their framework, smartphones are impenetrable, save for advanced backdoor hacking, right? Wrong. Computer security researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of South Carolina say that simple sound waves, when utilized effectively, can successfully hack not only smartphones, but also wearable fitness monitors like Fitbit and […]