Alphabet Is Developing a Robot to Take Over Boring Everyday Tasks
Robots excel at carrying out specialized tasks in controlled environments, but put them in your average office and they’d be lost. Alphabet wants to...
Our Place in the Universe Will Change Dramatically in the Next 50 Years—Here’s How
In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these words: “There is...
After AI, Fashion and Shopping Will Never Be the Same
AI and broadband are eating retail for breakfast. In the first half of 2019, we’ve seen 19 retailer bankruptcies. And the retail apocalypse is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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