Since the first Oculus Rift virtual reality headset prototype, people have breathlessly asked, “When will a consumer version be ready?” Oculus played coy and...
ROBOTICS: The Future of "Killer" Robots: Helping People
Ciara Byrne | Fast Company
"Robots are already moving out of the research lab, off the factory floor, and into...
With the help of modern brain scanning technology, scientists have begun methodically mapping the brain by asking people to perform tasks or inducing experiences...
Food and agriculture accounts for about 5.9% of the global GDP. Global food retail sales alone account for about $4 trillion/year, and food accounts for...
Biologically inspired gecko-bots? They aren’t as rare as you might imagine.
We’ve been covering them since 2009, and they’ve existed since at least 2006. That...
When our ancestors looked up at night, they saw the star-studded dome of heaven. It’s easy to understand why they thought this. Even today, gazing at...
COMPUTING: HP's Audacious Idea for Reinventing Computers
Tom Simonite | Technology Review
"Nearly three-quarters of the people in HP’s research division are now dedicated to a...
There’s something almost alchemical going on at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Scientists there have genetically transformed skin cells into heart cells...
Doctor, engineer, and businessman. These were the top three career choices for the children of middle-class families in India when I was young. Doctors...
This week I interviewed Padma Warrior, CTO and Chief Strategist of Cisco, to discuss the Internet of Everything (IoE). Padma is a brilliant and visionary...
On April 19, 1965, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore (then of Fairchild Semiconductor) published a paper on the fledgling technology of integrated circuits. In the paper,...
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COMPUTING: Moore’s Law Shows Its Age
Don Clark | Wall Street Journal
"At first, Moore’s Law was largely a yardstick for chip engineers. It...
Our smartphones can do a lot—compute, pin down our location, sense motion and orientation, send and receive wireless signals, take photographs and video. What if...
Writing lists forecasting technology is a bit like writing science fiction. Prerequisites include intimate knowledge of the bleeding edge of technology, the ability to separate...
CNBC and Singularity University are partnering to present Exponential Finance, a two-day conference in New York City exploring the game-changing technologies poised to disrupt...
What's most important for the success of your project? Is it the team? Funding? Timing? Idea? Business model? Recently I heard Bill Gross, one of the...
Though the sci-fi short “Burnt Grass” deals with themes related to futuristic technologies, it doesn’t bother to develop said future in detail. It is,...
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ROBOTICS: Human Laws Can't Control Killer Robots, New Report Says
Kari Paul | Motherboard
"When a human being is killed by an autonomous machine,...
When scientists looked at Mars through early telescopes, they saw a fuzzy, rust-colored globe scored by mysterious dark gashes some believed were alien canals. Later, armed with...
We’ve covered drone delivery startup, Matternet, for a few years now. Before Amazon’s Jeff Bezos talked drone delivery on “60 Minutes,” Matternet was already working the problem. But...
Last Friday marked the fifth anniversary of the iPad, a device heralded for triggering the broad adoption of tablet computers and for further spurring our always-connected, digital lives.
Like the iPod...
Surviving another April Fool's on the web requires effort and some just ignore the Internet for the day. Fortunately, we've filtered through all the excessive nonsense to...
Modern machines, powerful and clever, have enabled us to attempt seemingly impossible tasks, like traveling to the moon. Now, mere decades after Apollo’s computers guided...
Many experts studying the topic of automation believe that the current rate of advancement is leading us into a future with fewer and fewer available jobs.
Maybe...
Exponential technologies and digitization lure our focus to global markets, dangling the potential of massive profits and dizzying scale.
Entrepreneurs and investors look for opportunities...
Advances in automation will create an enormous increase in productivity and wealth, and potentially, a world where that wealth is unavailable to the majority...
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ROBOTS: It's Time For Robot Pilots
Jason Koebler | Motherboard
"Flying a plane from the ground (or taking it over from the ground, in...
"How can we reconcile these sort of concerns that we all have around how quickly things are changing?"
So asked California's Lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom, in...
The American industrialist Henry Ford, regarding diminishing customer surveys on early cars, once famously quipped, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they...
Worries about the future often share a critical flaw. They sometimes assume nothing changes, or that change happens more slowly than it does—when instead,...
