It was convincing, funny, and only a tiny bit creepy.

Billionaire tech titan Elon Musk has been tweeting quite a lot of late — about everything from his philosophical mentors (Douglas Adams and Isaac Asimov) to his political leanings (he's a socialist). But nearly lost in a flurry of tweets, Musk now says that universal basic income (UBI) — essentially, free cash handouts — "will be necessary over time if AI [artificial intelligence] takes over most human jobs."

Apple will automatically share a user's location with emergency services when they call 911 in the future, the company said Monday. The new feature will be part of iOS 12, the upcoming software update for the iPhone and iPad, and will help emergency services locate a person more quickly when in need. It will be available to users in the U.S. only.

Look, we like technology as much as the next girl, but sometimes it's much nicer if a guy says he loves you in person and not, you know, via Whatsapp.

Concrete is the most abundant man-made material on earth. There's a good chance you're standing on it right now, and it's holding up the buildings around you. But concrete has an emissions problem. Its essential ingredient, cement, has a huge carbon footprint.

A billionaire and his very powerful computer are helping a pharma pioneer find the drugs of tomorrow.

Elon Musk has previously said that he will be “the last one to sell his Tesla stocks”, but the CEO now clarifies what it means in practice. He plans to sell a ‘major’ stake in Tesla in ‘about 20 years’ to finance SpaceX’s Mars colonization plans. Musk is in a unique position as the CEO of two multi-billion-dollar companies: Tesla and SpaceX.

If America is attacked, the strike probably won’t come from North Korea. And it will be even scarier than we imagine.

Bill Gates shares two remarkable innovations that are helping deliver vaccines to the most remote places on earth.

Artificial intelligence can now put itself in someone else’s shoes. DeepMind has developed a neural network that taught itself to ‘imagine’ a scene from different viewpoints, based on just a single image. Given a 2D picture of a scene – say, a room with a brick wall, and a brightly coloured sphere and cube on the floor – the neural network can generate a 3D view from a different vantage point, rendering the opposite sides of the objects and altering where shadows fall to maintain the same light source.

Smartphones can make you invisible. Think about it. You're sitting in a public park, and you spot someone you don't want to talk to approaching you. All you have to do is stand up, look at your phone, and walk away. Poof! You're invisible..

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpredictable ways that even its creators don’t understand. As machines increasingly shape global events, how can we regain control?

There’s a big reason why nerdy dudes so sexy: They know all our secrets. IT types have the knack to discover some pretty incriminating info, whether they’re looking for it or not. Read these true stories, and think long and hard about what your network rep might know about you — then try not to …

You may still love your Mac, but Apple doesn’t share your passion.

This week, news broke that the Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules for how the Internet works. In short: the FCC would allow network owners (your Verizons, Comcasts, etc.) to create Internet "fast lanes" for companies (Disney, The Atlantic) that pay them more. For Internet activists, this directly violated the principle of net neutrality, which has been a hot-button issue in Silicon Valley for a long time.

Copying the features of a neural network in silicon might make machine learning way more efficient.

As with most well-established sports and outdoor activities, the gear used in scuba diving and snorkeling continues to evolve, although at times it feels like true innovation comes at a snail’s pace. But a Chinese Chinese designer who goes by the name of ZJ-DDG unveiled a new concept design for a dive mask that has the potential to be a real game-changer, bringing a host of interesting technologies that could alter the way underwater exploration and adventure takes place.

A partnership between Google and Australian linguistic researchers could see AI play a role in digitising and preserving dozens of threatened languages.

The latest news, views and developments in the exciting world of 5G networks

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has created a system that can see your body through walls, recreating your poses when you walk, sit, or simply stand still. It uses RF waves to sense where you are and then recreates your body as a simple stick figure.

A partial solution to the problem of punishing droughts may be to snatch water from the air, Dune-style.

New internal FCC e-mails obtained via FOIA request show that yes, the FCC did routinely try to mislead the public and the press with repeated claims of DDOS attacks that never actually happened:

The media industry has long waited for virtual reality to live up to its potential. PwC projects it may finally be happening.

Star Trek has a lot to answer for. Not content to tease us with unreasonable expectations of phasers and warp drive, it also thrust into the popular imagination the idea of teleportation, in which we step into a giant scanner of some sort and instantaneously find ourselves somewhere else, mind, body and soul intact (and hopefully, unlike Jeff Goldblum, untainted).

New camera system would record people inside vehicles as they enter and leave US, raising civil liberties concerns

Developers are taking on residential building challenges by extending the concept of prefabricated housing to manufacture entire apartment buildings.

Tesla is slashing thousands of jobs, its chief executive, Elon Musk, announced Tuesday, as the electronic car company attempts to hit production targets and reach profitability. Musk called the job cuts, which will affect about 9% of the company’s more than 40,000 employees, “difficult, but necessary” in a tweet that contained the email he had sent to employees announcing the layoffs.

In a humid greenhouse on a rooftop in the Bronx, Electra Jarvis is showing off her oasis cubes. Tucked away from direct sunlight, a cabinet full of small, spongey squares are arranged neatly, each one the home to a sprouting seedling. In a few months, the seedlings will become lettuce, bok choy, and mustard greens. For now they are tiny stems, fed by an automated system of nutrient-rich water and regulated light.

The airline is testing virtual windows that could pave the way for lighter and faster planes.

On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, Nick Bilton sits down with technologist Tom Conrad to discuss the murky ethics of the dark Web.

Get exclusive analysis and cryptocurrency insights on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. One of the top market regulators in the US said this week that cryptocurrency is a “technological revolution” that will one day be a part of every national economy. Speaking on Monday before the BFI Summit at the United Nations, Commodity Futures

Despite tariffs that President Trump imposed on imported panels, the U.S. installed more solar energy than any other source of electricity in the first quarter.

The Xiaomi Mi A2 with pure Android One unexpectedly appeared in a Spanish hands-on video.

If you've ever wondered what it's like to stand on an alien planet, NASA has you covered.

But can they succeed despite their essential dorkiness?