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...
Scientists in Portland, Ore., just succeeded in creating the first genetically modified human embryo in the United States, according to Technology Review. A team led by...
What
A Norwegian container ship called the Yara Birkeland will be the world’s first electric, autonomous, zero-emissions ship.
With a capacity of up to 150...
AUGMENTED REALITY
$99 Headset Could Be Augmented Reality's First True Chance at a Mass Market
Rachel Metz | MIT Technology Review
“The headset, made by Mira, is like...
The multiverse of science fiction is populated by robots that are indistinguishable from humans. They are usually smarter, faster, and stronger than us. They...
In the latest installment of Singularity University's new web series, the Future of Everything With Jason Silva, Silva discusses the relationship between organizations and disruptive technology.
"Organizations...
Predictions of when machines will make us obsolete seem to come either from AI evangelists or doom-mongers with little practical experience of the field....
Tesla’s stock price recently took a hit because of concerns about its delivery capabilities and about increasing competition from carmakers who are switching their...
BIOTECH
Verily Robot Will Raise 20 Million Sterile Mosquitoes for Release in California
Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review
“To help breed and release the mosquitoes, Verily...
In a world of accelerating change, educating the public about the implications of technological advancements is extremely important. We can continue to write informative...
Introducing our new web series, Future of Everything with Jason Silva. In this video, he discusses how futurists and entrepreneurs Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil created Singularity...
The earliest internet was built by the military, designed to help scientists around the nation gain access to those rare room-sized computers located at...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind's AI Is Teaching Itself Parkour, and the Results Are Adorable
James Vincent | The Verge
"The research explores how reinforcement learning (or RL) can...
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video,...
The Eindhoven High Tech Campus, a 90-minute train ride south of Amsterdam, consists of two rows of nondescript mid-rise office buildings on either side...
DIGITAL MEDIA
Make Hollywood-Quality Animations at Low-Budget Prices With This Motion Capture Suit
Sarah Buhr | TechCrunch
"You might be familiar with the industry-standard green man MoCap...
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video,...
DRONES
MIT Is Building Autonomous Drones That Can Both Drive and Fly
April Glaser | Recode
"The drones, which were built at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...
