Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground
24 January 2018
The US military are testing uncrewed balloons filled with helium that can keep watch over a small area by catching different winds in the stratosphere
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Ghost ships: The autonomous vehicles making waves on the water
24 January 2018
Shipping accidents kill hundreds every year, and are mostly caused by human error. But the first driverless ships are now being piloted
Peril on the sea: Why are so many megaships sinking?
24 January 2018
About 100 giant ships carrying metal ores sank in the last decade, often in calm seas – a frightening stat that goes to the heart of an industry hitting the rocks
Powerful or powerless: The backdoor to our cyberfuture
24 January 2018
In a highly networked, increasingly insecure cyberworld, our smartphones make us both powerful and powerless as never before, argue two new books
YouTube's bots aren't protecting kids from all its nasty videos
24 January 2018
YouTube has become the top source of videos for kids of all ages, but without transparency on its algorithms, it is hard for parents to trust
AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation
22 January 2018
Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation
Bitcoin's utopia has failed as big players hold all the power
17 January 2018
Cryptocurrencies are built on the idea that no one institution holds the power. But for bitcoin and ethereum, that’s no longer true
Chit-chat makes humans and robots work together better
17 January 2018
Introducing some chatter between humans and artificial intelligence improved the amount of collaboration – and results – across hundreds of games
