Robots are excellent tools for gathering information from areas humans can't reach. And now new speck-sized machines from MIT could extend that capability to...
ROBOTICS
Can a Robot Be a Very Good Doggo? Boston Dynamics Hopes So
Nick Lucchesi | Inverse
"Boston Dynamics has plans to take its robotic helpers mainstream...
In the 15 years since I first introduced the term "artificial general intelligence" (AGI), the AI field has advanced tremendously. We now have self-driving...
FUTURE OF WORK
This Is What Work Will Look Like in 2100
Jared Lindzon | Fast Company
"Some futurists believe that automation will push future workers to...
The sprawling US health care industry has trouble managing patient information: Every doctor, medical office, hospital, pharmacy, therapist and insurance company needs different pieces...
Nothing accelerates technological innovation like cash. Lots and lots of cash. More bucks means more Buck Rogers.
More cash means more people building, experimenting, failing,...
COMPUTING
The US May Have Just Pulled Even With China in the Race to Build Supercomputing's Next Big Thing
Martin Giles | MIT Technology Review
"While there’s...
This year (2018), the global advertising industry is projected to surpass $550 billion. Advertising revenues have driven Google’s valuation to >$700 billion, and Facebook...
A group of roboticists at the University of Tokyo have created a flexible, flying "drone-robot" that could see a multitude of uses.
The Dual-rotor embedded...
Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA.
The whole enterprise sounds fantastical: you insert new snippets of DNA code—in the form...
At Collision, which calls itself “North America’s fastest-growing tech conference,” former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres threw down a challenge to tech titans:...
Born during the aftermath of the financial meltdown a decade ago, a publicly-traded real estate brokerage called eXp Realty is establishing itself as one...
The internet, as it stands, is a global system of interconnected computer networks that allows humans to interact with each other, do business, gain...