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Monthly Archives: April, 2018

New Tech Marries the Best of Photonics and Electronics on the Same Silicon Chip

Edd Gent -
Optical communication has revolutionized long-distance data transfer, but scaling it down to microchips is tougher. Now, though, a new technique means optical components can...

Stuff 3.0: The Era of Programmable Matter

Thomas Hornigold -
It’s the end of a long day in your apartment in the early 2040s. You decide your work is done for the day, stand...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 28)

Singularity Hub Staff -
CRYPTOCURRENCY Let's Destroy Bitcoin  Morgan Peck | MIT Technology Review "No one can copy an individual bitcoin, but anyone can copy the idea of Bitcoin. So how...

Scientists Discover How to Harness the Power of Quantum Spookiness by Entangling Clouds of Atoms

Robert Young -
From tunneling through impenetrable barriers to being in two places at the same time, the quantum world of atoms and particles is famously bizarre....

A Data Storage Revolution? DNA Can Store Near Limitless Data in Almost Zero Space

Peter H. Diamandis, MD -
In the age of big data, we are quickly producing far more digital information than we can possibly store. Last year, $20 billion was spent...

How Large Organizations Can Embrace Innovation in Digital Health

Singularity Hub Staff -
In an interview at Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Eugene Borukhovich described how big companies like his can better embrace digital health technologies. Borukhovich is the...

How Fukushima Changed Japanese Robotics and Woke Up the Industry

Thomas Hornigold -
In March 2011, Japan was hit by a catastrophic earthquake that triggered a terrible tsunami. Thousands were killed and billions of dollars of damage...

China Plans to Bring Artificial Rain to Area Three Times the Size of Spain

Marc Prosser -
Artificial rain is set to fall on mountainous plains three times the size of Spain. At least, that’s the plan for China’s latest weather...

Robots Can Swim, Fetch, Lift, and Dance. But Can They Assemble an Ikea Chair?

Vanessa Bates Ramirez -
Robotics has come a long way in the past few years. Robots can now fetch items from specific spots in massive warehouses, swim through...

Tech Optimists See a Golden Future—Let’s Talk About How We’ll Get There

Thomas Hornigold -
Technology evangelists dream about a future where we’re all liberated from the more mundane aspects of our jobs by artificial intelligence. Other futurists go...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 21)

Singularity Hub Staff -
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pedro Domingos on the Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence Christoph Scheuermann and Bernhard Zand | Spiegel Online “AI lowers the cost of knowledge by orders...

Your Next Pilot Could Be Drone Software

Jeremy Straub -
Would you get on a plane that didn’t have a human pilot in the cockpit? Half of air travelers surveyed in 2017 said they...

How Thought Leadership Inspires Action With Ideas

Lisa Kay Solomon -
Denise Brosseau believes that leading in today’s complicated world requires clarity of intention, voice, and focus. In essence, it requires thought leadership. In Denise’s...

Mini-Brains Just Grew Their Own Blood Vessels—Here’s Why That’s Great News

Shelly Fan -
If you ever put a brain through a Picasso filter, you’d probably get something close to a brain ball. When brain balls first hit the...

An Innovator’s City Guide to São Paulo, Brazil

Conrado Schlochauer -
The tenth-largest city in the world and the largest in the Americas, São Paulo is a unique place. Its size, diversity, and energy outweigh...

10 Amazing Things You Can Learn From Your Poop

Naveen Jain -
Hardly a day goes by without a research study or article published talking sh*t—or more precisely, talking about the gut microbiome. When it comes...

This Startup Is Training AI to Gobble Up the News and Rewrite It Free of Bias

Edd Gent -
Bias in journalism is nothing new, but there are growing concerns technology is pushing us into echo chambers where we only hear one side...

Tiny Tooth Sensor Tracks What You Eat, and It Could Help You Be Healthier

Vanessa Bates Ramirez -
The South Beach diet. The Atkins diet. Eating paleo. Cutting out gluten. Going vegan. The list of fad diets and health crazes goes on,...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 14)

Singularity Hub Staff -
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Learns a New Trick: Measuring Brain Cells Robbie Gonzalez | Wired “For three months, I spent three or four hours a day, five or...

Robot Cities: Three Urban Prototypes for Future Living

Mateja Kovacic -
Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn’t so far removed from what I do...

How Will Merging Minds and Machines Change Our Conscious Experience?

Raya Bidshahri -
One of the most exciting and frightening outcomes of technological advancement is the potential to merge our minds with machines. If achieved, this would...

MIT’s New Voiceless Interface Can Read the Words in Your Head

Vanessa Bates Ramirez -
The way we interact with the technology in our lives is getting progressively more seamless. If typing terms or addresses into your phone wasn’t...

This Memory Prosthesis Boosts Recall in Humans by Roughly 40 Percent

Shelly Fan -
This one’s for the books: in a jaw-dropping study, a team just turned the human brain from a read-only memory device to a rewritable...

How Big Is the Gap Between ‘Ready Player One’ and Current VR Tech?

Edd Gent -
Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Ready Player One depicts a future where VR technology can transport people into a completely realistic alternate universe. But how close...

Can We Make a Musical Turing Test?

Thomas Hornigold -
As artificial intelligence advances, we’re encountering the same old questions. How much of what we consider to be fundamentally human can be reduced to...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 7)

Singularity Hub Staff -
CYBERNETICS A Brain-Boosting Prosthesis Moves From Rats to Humans Robbie Gonzalez | WIRED “Today, their proof-of-concept prosthetic lives outside a patient's head and connects to the brain...

Astronomers May Have Just Discovered a Dozen Black Holes in the Center of Our Galaxy

Phil Charles -
Astronomers first noticed an enigmatic object, dubbed “Sagittarius A*”, at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy in the 1960s—the earliest days of...

Dungeons and Dragons, Not Chess and Go: Why AI Needs Roleplay

Beth Singler -
Everyone had died—not that you’d know it, from how they were laughing about their poor choices and bad rolls of the dice. As a...

New Bionic Arm Blurs Line Between Self and Machine for Wearers

Shelly Fan -
At 29 years old, Canadian firefighter Rob Anderson lost his left arm and left leg to a harrowing helicopter crash into the side of...

An Innovator’s City Guide to Tallinn, Estonia

Siim Saare -
Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, a country that has emerged over the last 20 years as one of the most advanced digital societies...

This Planned Solar Farm in Saudi Arabia Would Be 100 Times Bigger Than Any in the World

Thomas Hornigold -
Right now it only exists on paper, in the form of a memorandum of understanding. But if constructed, the newly-announced solar photovoltaic project in...

Can We Recycle CO2 Emissions to Make Carbon-Neutral Fuel?

Edd Gent -
Our failure to curb our carbon emissions is threatening to cause catastrophic climate change within our lifetimes. But what if we could recycle CO2...

This 3D Printed Electric Car Will Enter Production This Year

Vanessa Bates Ramirez -
Cars have gone from a “get me from point A to point B by burning gas” mode of transportation to a dream project for...
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