From payment processing to corporate banking, the financial industry is being turned upside down by exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital currencies, robotics,...
Last month, a Philadelphia-based biotech company kicked off a clinical trial that pushes the envelope of what it means to be dead.
Armed with ethical...
ROBOTICS: This Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants to Give Us All Robot Bodies
Mark Mann | Motherboard
"It’s easy to envision Beam-like devices with more appendages and more...
Visit Singularity Hub for the latest from the frontiers of manufacturing and technology as we bring you coverage of Singularity University's Exponential Manufacturing Summit.
Technological progress...
Visit Singularity Hub for the latest from the frontiers of manufacturing and technology as we bring you coverage of Singularity University's Exponential Manufacturing summit.
The software...
While CRISPR, nanobots and head transplants are making headlines as medical breakthroughs, a number of new technologies are also making progress tackling some of...
Visit Singularity Hub for the latest from the frontiers of manufacturing and technology as we bring you coverage of Singularity University's Exponential Manufacturing summit.
If you've...
The long vision of nanotechnology suggests tiny robot “assemblers” will swarm unseen in the air, water, and even our bodies, building anything from the atoms up. It's...
This week Singularity Hub is on the ground in Boston bringing you inside coverage of Singularity University’s first ever Exponential Manufacturing conference at the...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Can Artificial Intelligence Create the Next Wonder Material?
Nicola Nosengo | Nature
"Instead of continuing to develop new materials the old-fashioned way — stumbling across them...
“Negative advice is vastly more important than positive advice.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sam Hinkie, an NBA executive known for his love of advanced...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk’s Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free
Cade Metz | WIRED
"In the rarefied world of AI research, the brightest minds...
Apple’s dismal earnings announcement shows why it badly needs to rethink its innovation model and leadership. Its last breakthrough innovation was the iPhone —...
This post explores how to run great experiments in your company, based on recent conversations with my friend Astro Teller, Chief of Moonshots at "X" (formally...
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 26th anniversary in space, NASA released a series of images, videos, and simulations of an object known as the...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Let Artificial Intelligence Evolve
Michael Chorost | Slate
"For billions of years, aqueous information systems have had to contend with extremely complex environments...And the biochemistry...
Is creativity a uniquely human trait? What about self-awareness or intuition?
Defining the line between human and machine is becoming blurrier by the day as...
This post explores the inside workings of "X" (formally Google X, Google's R&D factory) through conversations with my friend Astro Teller, chief of moonshots.
If you...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Neural Networks: What Are They, and Why Is the Tech Industry Obsessed With Them?
John Brownlee | Fast Company
"Combine them with conversational interfaces, and...
If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on creating the right culture and learning how to rapidly experiment.
In...
It might be time to rethink fertility treatment.
Here’s the scoop: scientists at Northwestern University 3D printed a functional ovary out of Jello-like material and...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: What Will Destroy Us First: Superbabies or AI?
Danielle Teller and Astro Teller | QUARTZ
"Even if we could build an AI that is similar...
Almost ten years ago, Freeman Dyson ventured a wild forecast:
“I predict that the domestication of biotechnology will dominate our lives during the next...
Sometimes exponential technologies hide in plain sight. Their innovation speed, market size, and number of practical uses seem to be progressing linearly, until suddenly...
We often think of consciousness as binary: you’re either fully aware of something, or you’re not.
Yet according to a team of cognitive neuroscientists at...
