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How seaweed could shrink livestock’s global carbon hoofprint

A diet supplemented with red algae could lessen the huge amounts of greenhouse gases emitted by cows and sheep, if we can just figure out how to grow enough. Read more »

How UPS uses AI to outsmart bad weather

The delivery giant’s new machine-learning app aims to reroute packages away from snow and other trouble spots in its global network. Read more »

Online censorship in Saudi Arabia soared after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

The main targets were foreign media websites, says a new service that automates censorship-tracking in countries governed by repressive regimes. Read more »

Security Concerns Forcing Organizations to Rethink Cloud Strategies

Securing today’s increasingly complex multi-cloud environments requires much more than simply having a security platform available on a particular infrastructure.

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Blockchain smart contracts can finally have a real world impact

A startup says it has tackled a long-standing problem that has kept smart contracts from responding to events in the outside world. Read more »

One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future

Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk an AI arms race, and make the technology more accessible to the developing world. Read more »

Ford wants to launch a fleet of thousands of self-driving cars in 2021

The automaker believes sponsorship and ride-sharing will be key to making its nascent autonomous-car business take off. Read more »

The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that ride the wind so they never have to come down

A sensor that can spot the wind direction from miles away will let DARPA’s surveillance balloons hover at the very edge of space in one spot indefinitely. Read more »

China’s giant transmission grid could be the key to cutting climate emissions

But are the country’s next-generation power lines a clean-power play or a global power move? Read more »

A robot scientist will dream up new materials to advance computing and fight pollution

Kebotix is using AI and robotics to brainstorm—and then test—novel compounds. Read more »