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• AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria

  22 Feb, 2020 - 09:40 pm

  The use of AI to discover medicine appears to be paying off. MIT scientists have revealed that their AI discovered an antibiotic compound, halicin (named after 2001's HAL 9000), that can not only kill many forms of resistant bacteria but do so in a...

• Netflix's first 'Transformers' teaser reveals a hopeless war

  22 Feb, 2020 - 08:09 pm

  Netflix has posted the first teaser trailer for its Transformers animated series, and it's now clear just how the service will take on the robots' origins. The clip for the first part of the War For Cybertron trilogy, Siege, portrays the Autobots fi...

• Alphabet's Loon, telecoms unite to boost high-altitude internet

  22 Feb, 2020 - 06:53 pm

  Alphabet's Loon just got a big boost from telecoms in its bid to provide high-altitude internet to the world. The company has partnered with several industry giants to form the HAPS Alliance, a group devoted to promoting the use of stratospheric veh...

• Google's new terms of service will (hopefully) be easier to read

  22 Feb, 2020 - 05:36 pm

  Terms of service still tend to read like legal alphabet soup, but Google thinks it can do better. It's notifying users of a TOS change on March 31st that, among other things, should remove some of the mystery. The internet giant said its new terms...

• Spin Master's new NinjaBots are cute little killers

  22 Feb, 2020 - 04:45 pm

  Do you remember the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon from the '80s? Shredder's minions were all featureless humanoid robots, which our heroes could could slice and dice without guilt. At this year's Toy Fair, Spin Master's new product answers...