AI Is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here’s How
Artificial intelligence in space exploration is gathering momentum. Over the coming years, new missions look likely to be turbo-charged by AI as we voyage...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 6)
ROBOTICS
The Demise of Rethink Robotics Shows How Hard It Is to Make Machines Truly Smart
Will Knight | MIT Technology Review
"There’s growing interest in using recent advances in...
New Materials Are Powering the Battery Revolution
There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people. Nearly all of them are powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are...
A Particle Physicist Explains the Tech That Won the Nobel Prize
Our world is full of light, and we depend upon it to power life on our planet. So it is appropriate to honor three...
New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a...
Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA.
The whole enterprise sounds fantastical: you insert new snippets of DNA code—in the form...
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Commuter Train Is Now in Service
The advocates of hydrogen as the solution to replacing fossil fuels, particularly in transportation, have some compelling arguments. The fuel can be made with...
Human Immature Eggs Made From Blood Cells for the First Time
We all know how babies are made: sperm meets egg, molecular magic happens, and an entire human comes to life from a single cell.
But...
3 Big Ways Tech Is Disrupting Global Finance
Disruptive business models are often powered by alternative financing. In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how mobile is redefining money and banking and shared...
The Rise of Dataism: A Threat to Freedom or a Scientific Revolution?
What would happen if we made all of our data public—everything from wearables monitoring our biometrics, all the way to smartphones monitoring our location,...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 29)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How Google's DeepMind Will Train Its AI Inside Unity's Video Game Worlds
Sean Captain | Fast Company
"DeepMind, part of Google parent company Alphabet, is...
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