Welcome to the latest update from “Hawaii Science Digest”. This Hawaii Island blog focuses on science, technology, medicine, health, cyber security, and artificial intelligence (AI). Views expressed in this science and technology summary are those of the reporters and correspondents. Content provided by the online edition of “Wired Magazine”.
The Prime Challenges for Amazon’s New Delivery Robot
BY MATT SIMON AND ARIELLE PARDES
The company’s six-wheeled delivery bot, Scout, is built to ferry Prime packages.
AUTOMATION
Robots Will Take Jobs From Men, the Young, and Minorities
BY TOM SIMONITE
Automation may create as many jobs as it destroys, a new study finds, but men, younger folks, and minorities hold positions that are particularly vulnerable.
MOVIES
Fyre Festival Documentaries Dissect Attendees’—and Your—FOMO
BY ANDREA VALDEZ
The Netflix and Hulu docs show a festival that lived and died by social media.
BROWSERS
Google’s Proposed Changes to Chrome Could Weaken Ad Blockers
BY KLINT FINLEY
Google’s proposal would render some ad blockers and other tools ineffective, forcing developers to make changes.
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WHEELIES
So Uber Wants Self-Driving Bikes and Scooters. Why? And How?
BY ALEX DAVIES AND AARIAN MARSHALL
They’d be difficult to engineer, and expensive to boot. But they’re part of the company’s master plan.
MONEY TALKS
Google and Facebook Backed an Event Denying Climate Change
BY STEPHANIE MENCIMER
Three tech giants, including Microsoft, sponsored a libertarian conference that included attacks on the science of climate change.
FLIGHT PLAN
Boeing’s Flying Taxi Prototype Takes to the Air (Briefly)
BY JACK STEWART
The company is one of the partners in Uber’s bid to fly the skies.
CONSERVATION
Drones Drop Poison Bombs to Fight One Island’s Rat Invasion
BY MATT SIMON
On the Galapagos Island of Seymour Norte, conservationists scramble to destroy every last invasive rodent before the ecosystem descends into chaos.
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