It began two years ago when MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti donned American flags as capes and challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to...
From Google’s language translation app to autonomous cars, machine learning has become a key ingredient in multiple areas of our lives—but what exactly is...
We’ve all name-dropped a new technology that sounds awesome—like CRISPR/Cas9—without really knowing the basics.
This is why we’ve created Tech-x-planations, Singularity Hub’s new weekly video...
BIOTECH
Lab-Grown Food Startup Memphis Meats Raises $17 Million From DFJ, Cargill, Bill Gates, Others
Paul Sawers | Venture Beat
“Meat grown in a laboratory is...
In the latest installment of Singularity University’s web series, Future of Everything With Jason Silva, Silva takes a look at artificial intelligence. "AI is perhaps the...
It sounds like science fiction: with a light zap of electricity, a tiny stamp-like device transforms your skin cells into reservoirs of blood vessels...
“I think civilization is fundamentally breaking down today.” These were the opening words of Salim Ismail’s talk at Singularity University’s Global Summit in San...
BIOHACKING
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
Andy Greenberg | WIRED
"Regardless of any practical reason for the research, however, the notion of building a...
In the latest installment of Singularity University’s new web series, Future of Everything With Jason Silva, Silva discusses how nanotechnology will transform the world in ways...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II Into an AI Research Lab
Darrell Etherington | TechCrunch
“StarCraft II is such a useful environment for AI research...
Manufacturing productivity has been on a tear. It’s nearly doubled versus construction productivity over the last couple decades.
Ever wonder why? I do. And at...
Bioprinting enthusiasts envision a future where we’ll be able to print functional human organs on demand, putting an end to transplant waiting lists and...
Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment—both intellectual and financial—by philosophers, scientists...
In the latest installment of Singularity University’s new web series, Future of Everything With Jason Silva, Silva discusses the digitization of biology.
The world has been transformed...
When it comes to climate change, government leaders and politicians must begin to think beyond their term limits and lifetimes. They must ask themselves...
TRANSPORTATION
A Pod Races Through the Hyperloop for the First Time Ever
Alex Davies | WIRED
“Once loaded into a 1,600-foot-long concrete tube in the Nevada desert,...
The future of AI lies in neuroscience.
So says Google DeepMind’s founder Demis Hassabis in a review paper published last week in the prestigious journal...
In the third of Singularity University's Future of Everything YouTube series with Jason Silva, Silva discusses "The Big Three" exponential technologies, which he defines as...
Nature has found some elegant solutions to complicated problems and engineers have long been inspired by its designs. But Adrian Thomas thinks translating the...
