(Natural News) There is a very close (and, some would say, “concerning”) relationship forming between tech giants like Google and Amazon and the U.S. national security establishment. Both of these companies are currently in the process of expanding their presence within the intelligence community and building devices capable of everything from facial recognition to reading […]

(Natural News) Bees are different from other insects in lots of little ways. But a new study now shows that as a group, they also behave rather differently, even when compared with individual bees. To be more specific, a group of researchers has determined that the way honey bees usually function, when they are in […]

(Natural News) Just because painting a wall – much less an entire house – is an arduous job doesn’t mean a robot should take over the job. But that is what a startup company called MIST has decided. An article in Digital Trends reports that they have developed an autonomous robot called Maverick that can complete […]

(Natural News) The latest job to be taken over by robots is also one of the oldest and hardest ever invented. Robotic weeders are starting to become a common sight at farms that cultivate specialty crops. Experts claim they are going to be the “future of weeding,” according to an American Society on Agronomy article. […]

(Natural News) A Chinese research team has come up with an artificial intelligence (AI) to help them diagnose prostate biopsies and identify possible cancers. According to an article on SciMex.org, the AI is as good as a human pathologist. The learning software is said to be able to grade the malignancy of the cancer with […]

(Natural News) Autonomous cars are controversial, but proponents point out that they are far safer than traditional cars because the artificial intelligence systems controlling them are not vulnerable to human error. The computer, they say, won’t fall asleep at the wheel, get distracted checking its text messages, or drive while intoxicated. It’s better at math […]

(Natural News) As if things weren’t already bad enough for Mark Zuckerberg’s baby, Facebook (the world’s least trusted company at this point), now they are apparently working on a secret project behind the scenes that has nothing to do with social media, and everything to do with scanning people’s brains as part of a sinister […]

(Natural News) More than a dozen Google employees have quit working for the tech monolith in recent weeks as a response to the company’s forging ahead with a Terminator-esque artificial intelligence (AI) program that could end up weaponizing machine-learning technologies for use in military war games. Known as “Project Maven,” the Department of Defense (DoD) […]

(Natural News) It’s fair to say that our world has reached a point where technology is so advanced that robots are almost expected to be lifelike – but what about robots that develop mental illnesses, hallucinations and depression like human beings do? Is this just science fiction, or can we really expect artificial intelligence to […]

(Natural News) As if the human race hasn’t already diminished to the point of near-total soullessness, thanks to the rise of smartphones and social media, new research suggests that things could soon get a whole lot worse with the introduction of “sex robots.” According to one self-professing expert on the subject, the idea of having […]