Artificial intelligence is using satellite images to observe farms. The technique is being tested in the US to detect farms that may be illegally polluting the waterways, and has been trialled across Europe to monitor and inspect farmland. In the US, facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) comprise around 40 per cent of the country's livestock. These intensive farms often contain as many as 2500 pigs or 125,000 chickens per facility and generate around 335 million tonnes of waste per year. Manure forms a large proportion of this waste, which often makes its way into waterways untreated.

Sonos and Ikea have teamed up to create speakers they claim takes the best of both companies. The new Symfonisk range puts Sonos smart speakers into Ikea furnishings, allowing them to be placed around the home in ways that allow them to disappear. They arrive in August and are cheaper than the companies other new speakers, despite including most of the same technologies. The new table lamp combines light and sound and costs €179, and the bookshelf speaker – which can be tucked away or on display,set on a bracket to allow it to work as a shelf or hooked onto a kitchen rail – costs €99.95 We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

The government's new proposals to try and protect people from harm on the internet could actually create a huge censorship operation, campaigners have warned. Ministers have revealed the long-awaited white paper on online harms, in an attempt to deal with the dangers posed by content being distributed on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. It recommends a wide variety of new legal changes, including imposing a duty of care on the tech firms and holding individual people at the top of those companies responsible for breaking the rules. They will force the companies to remove any offending content – from terrorist content to child abuse imagery – as quickly as they can, and within time limits. We'll tell you what's true.

In my house, people are yelling at me; more accurately, maybe, they're yelling with me. I have invited them here. I don't know if it's because I'm so tired and sweaty – lord, am I tired and sweaty – but the things they're yelling seem as inspirational and profound as scripture. "You are genuine, you are real," one says, before posing a challenge that I'm bound to commit to: "Yes or yes?" These people are here, in a tablet attached to a stationary bike in my living room, because they are Peloton instructors. And I am a Peloton convert. So, it's said, are some of the most forward-thinking people in Silicon Valley.

No technology raises ethical concerns (and outright fear) quite like artificial intelligence. And it's not just individual citizens who are worried. Facebook, Google and Stanford University have invested in AI ethics research centers. Late last year, Canada and France teamed up to create an international panel to discuss AI's "responsible adoption." Today, the European Commission released its own guidelines calling for "trustworthy AI."

Voice assistants usually only give you brief summaries of the news -- helpful if you're in a hurry, but that's about it. Amazon is betting that you'll want something deeper. It's rolling out an Alexa feature in the US that provides long-form news from Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Newsy and NPR. Ask Alexa to "tell me the news" or to "play news" from a specific outlet and you'll get detailed audio from all providers, and video from CNBC and Newsy. You can skip stories if you'd rather not examine every story in vivid detail.

The duck is famous for two things: really liking bread (even though they're not supposed to be eating it), and wielding insanely complicated reproductive bits. More specifically, male ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises, while females' reproductive tracts corkscrew in the opposite direction. But you know who tends to get short shrift for their own bizarrely complicated reproductive system? That would be the rhino. "It's composed of a number of interlocking ridges or rings that makes it look like a number of S's connected to each other for 8 to 12 inches," says Barbara Durrant, director of reproductive sciences at the San Diego Zoo.

Can artificial intelligence make the hiring process fairer? We look at that question in All Tech Considered. SHAPIRO: Lots of Fortune 500 companies use some sort of AI to screen job candidates. In Sweden, recruiters are testing an AI-powered recruitment robot. Reporter Maddy Savage went to check it out. MADDY SAVAGE, BYLINE: I'm outside the offices of TNG, one of Sweden's largest recruiting companies, which has a glass-fronted office in downtown Stockholm.

Let's take a couple minutes now to examine some of the questions you might have that this Swedish hiring robot poses. Ifeoma Ajunwa of Cornell University has studied the use of artificial intelligence in the hiring process here in the U.S. Welcome. IFEOMA AJUNWA: Thank you very much for having me. CHANG: Is it possible for AI to completely eliminate human bias in the hiring process? AJUNWA: I would say no because you still have to remember that AI isn't fully automated.

How do you fix a satellite's instrument that's floating 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface? That's a question that NASA had to answer when it ran into problems with the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a satellite tasked with studying the Sun and the effects of solar activity on Earth. This is important for all sorts of reasons -- not least because solar storms can knock out GPS satellites, shut down electrical grids, and scramble communications. Unfortunately, one of the SDO's three instruments, responsible for measuring ultraviolet light, stopped working due to a fault. This data is essential to satellite operators.