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- Missing microbes ’cause’ childhood cancer http://www.bbc.com/news/health-44199844
- Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Face Recognition Technology https://www.aclunc.org/blog/amazon-teams-law-enforcement-deploy-dangerous-new-face-recognition-technology
- Few Rules Govern Police Use Of Facial-Recognition Technology https://www.wired.com/story/few-rules-govern-police-use-of-facial-recognition-technology/
- NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/nasas-em-drive-is-a-magnetic-wtf-thruster/
- BMW cars found to contain more than a dozen flaws http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44224794
- Microsoft also has an AI bot that makes phone calls to humans https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17379508/microsoft-xiaoice-chat-bot-phone-call-demo
- ‘Ultra-fast charging battery’ tech secures $20 million investment from British oil giant BP https://electrek.co/2018/05/22/ultra-fast-charging-battery-tech-storedot-investment-oil-giant-bp/
NASA’s ‘Impossible’ Space Engine Tested—Here Are the Results https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/nasa-emdrive-impossible-physics-independent-tests-magnetic-space-science/