The laws will apply only in the EU for now, but it's possible these global companies will apply these laws elsewhere (Microsoft has already applied some EU regulations in other places.) Venezuela used to have an anti-government newspaper, but that was until the government made it impossible for them to get enough paper to print. So Venezuelans have turned to the voice-chat app Zello to spread news, get basic needs, and coordinate aid amid the country's political and economic crisis. Vice President Mike Pence said the US will be sending astronauts to the moon's south pole. Because there's tons of ice Pence says can be turned into life support and even rocket fuel.

Some artificial intelligences can perform tasks with superhuman ability, but just how clever are they overall? A competition called the Animal-AI Olympics will pit AIs against tests normally used to study animal intelligence. From April, AIs will battle it out in a virtual playground for a $10,000 prize pool. All the tasks involve retrieving a piece of food, but the skills needed to succeed vary in complexity.

As you learn your first language, your brain stores about 1.5 megabytes of information – just a little over the amount that would fill a floppy disc (that is what the picture for the save icon represents, if you are too young to remember them). "I thought it would be much more," says Frank Mollica at the University of Rochester in New York. When you hear a word that you know, your brain is accessing all kinds of information to help you make sense of it: the sounds that make up the word, the meanings it has, its context in a sentence, the tense of a verb, and more. Mollica and his colleagues used a branch of mathematics called information theory to figure out how many bits of data you would need to encode all of this to lean English. These are estimates, Mollica says, but they give us a ballpark idea that can quantify how much information language acquisition requires.

The EU has passed some of its most controversial rules in years, changes that could fundamentally alter how the internet works. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view. But opponents say it will have the accidental effect of banning all sorts of legitimate behaviour, punishing tech companies and maybe even "banning memes". What are the new rules?

Media reports are attempting to suggest that the strange "Momo" character has returned, despite it not actually existing. A flurry of reports over the last day or so have focused on suggestions that the character is appearing in "baby shark" videos in an attempt to terrify the children watching them, and convince them to engage in dangerous behaviour. While it may be true that there the image has appeared in one or some of those videos, they have probably been watched by very few people. What's more, the character does not actually exist – the model that the infamous picture shows was destroyed after it rotted – which means the stories actually only refer to somebody inserting the horrifying image into videos rather than anything supernatural. We'll tell you what's true.

Twitter users are being tricked into changing their birthdays – and finding themselves locked out of their account. A viral hoax flying around the site suggests that people change their birthday in their Twitter profile to 2007. If they do, they'll get access to new colour schemes on the site, it suggests. But there are no colour schemes to be unlocked. Instead, changing your birthday to that soon will just tell Twitter that you are under 13 years old, which in turn means you shouldn't be allowed on the site, and so will be kicked off.

While the rest of the world was calling out for Bloodborne 2 to be FromSoftware's next big game, a select few were hoping for an entirely new and fresh idea. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was this new title, and it was immediately clear that it would be a huge departure from their past hit games such as Dark Souls and Demon's Souls. Sekiro is unapologetically the furthest from a typical Souls game in the best ways possible. As you might expect, the game is exceptionally difficult yet wonderfully rewarding in its combat and exploration. It bares all the trademarks of a FromSoft title but Sekiro's biggest departure however is that it's a character-driven story with a fairly explicit plot. In previous titles like Dark Souls and Bloodborne, you created your own character and gave them your own backstory, justifications and drives.

Autonomous delivery drone networks are coming to the US in earnest. UPS and Matternet are launching a drone "airline" that will use the robotic aircraft to carry medical samples between WakeMed's health care facilities in Raleigh, North Carolina. The drone of choice (an M2 quadcopter) can only carry up to 5lbs at distances as long as 12.5 miles, but it should still be faster, cheaper and more consistent than the current system of driving samples across town using cars. They won't have to deal with traffic snarls, after all. This isn't the flexible drone delivery service you might have imagined.

Google is joining Facebook, Stanford and other outfits setting up institutions to support ethical AI. The company has created an Advanced Technology External Advisory Council that will shape the "responsible development and use" of AI in its products. The organization will ponder facial recognition, fair machine learning algorithms and other ethical issues. The initial council is a diverse group that tackles a range of disciplines and experiences. The current advisors include academics focused both on technical aspects of AI (such as computational mathematics and drones) as well as experts in ethics, privacy, and political policy.

The US military is testing delivery drones that can transport supplies over long distances and be thrown away after each use. Made of cheap plywood, the bigger version of the two gliders being tested can carry over 700 kilograms, or roughly 1800 pounds. As reported in IEE Spectrum, the scientists at Logistic Gliders, Inc. revealed that their gliders just successfully completed a series of tests with US Marines. If cleared for mass production, the LG-1K and its bigger counterpart, the LG-2K, could cost as little as a few hundred dollars each. Using unmanned aircraft for delivery is an idea both the military and private sector have explored for years. Traditional aircraft guzzle fuel, cost money to purchase and maintain and require a human pilot.