An AI Debated Its Own Potential for Good vs. Harm. Here’s What It Came...
Artificial intelligence is going to overhaul the way we live and work. But will the changes it brings be for the better? As the...
Designer Babies? Simulation Shows They Won’t Happen Anytime Soon
Roughly a year ago, the creation of CRISPRed twins reignited fierce debate and trepidation about our oncoming era of designer babies. The experiment, designed...
Synthetic ‘Skin’ Is Bringing a Sense of Touch to Virtual Reality
Virtual reality’s ability to create artificial worlds has come a long way in recent years. Now new technology could make those worlds even more...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 23)
COMPUTING
A Giant Superfast AI Chip Is Being Used to Find Better Cancer Drugs
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"Thus far, Cerebras’s computer has checked all...
Flying Cars, Aerial Ridesharing, and the Not-Too-Distant Future of Transport
In 2018, for the sixth straight year, Los Angeles earned the dubious honor of being the most gridlocked metropolis in the world, where the...
NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Is Finding Hundreds of Exoplanets—and Is Poised to Find Thousands More
Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these extrasolar planets,...
Can You Hack Your Sleep in 28 Days?
Sleep has become the latest frontier in the life-hackers’ battle for self-improvement. But how easy is to to rewire how you spend a third...
How Scientists Grew Perfect New Lungs in Mouse Embryos
Unless you or a loved one are a smoker, lung health probably never got on your radar. But the recent spike in deadly vaping-related...
The Smart Road Tech That’s Making Driving Faster, Safer, and Just...
From autonomous cars to flying taxis to electric-powered aircraft, technological innovations in transportation vehicles seem to be moving faster than Elon Musk’s express loop...
How Selfish Are You? It Matters for MIT’s New Self-Driving Algorithm
Our personalities impact almost everything we do, from the career path we choose to the way we interact with others to how we spend...
We’re Making Progress in Explainable AI, but Major Pitfalls Remain
Machine learning algorithms are starting to exceed human performance in many narrow and specific domains, such as image recognition and certain types of medical...
To Reinvent Healthcare, Stop Treating Patients and Start Building Communities
It’s not news that healthcare costs in the US are sky-high. What might be news to some, though, is that year over year, we’re...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 16)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
Matthew Hutson | Quanta
"In a recent paper, Clune argues that open-ended discovery is likely the fastest path...
Within 10 Years, We’ll Travel by Hyperloop, Rockets, and Avatars
What’s faster than autonomous vehicles and flying cars?
Try Hyperloop, rocket travel, and robotic avatars. Hyperloop is currently working towards 670 mph (1080 kph) passenger...
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