Facebook stalls in lawsuit alleging its facial recognition tech violates Illinois law

 An Illinois law is proving a thorn in Facebook’s side as a class action lawsuit, alleging…

Artificial leaf captures light to power drug production

 Drug production is generally a matter of big factories churning out millions of aspirin or ibuprofen…

The White House’s report on AI and the economy warns of increasing inequality

 The White House has issued a sequel to its October report on how the U.S. should…

Moth eyes inspired the design of this hypersensitive camera

 If you wanted to see in the dark, you could do worse than follow the example…

SRI spinoff SuperFlex raises $9.6M to pursue ‘powered clothing’

 A spinoff from the robot veterans at SRI is making a big bet on ubiquitous soft…

NASA tech could track firefighters where GPS can’t reach

 In the chaotic environment of a fire or disaster area, knowing where your fellow firefighters and…

5-year, 2-petabyte digital survey of the night sky is the largest ever released

 Astronomers have a powerful new resource in the Pan-STARRS survey of the night sky, carried out…

Tesla introduces fee for lazy owners who leave their cars at Supercharger stations

 There’s nothing like driving your nearly-empty Tesla up to a Supercharger station for a top-up and…