Autonomous vehicles can follow the general rules of American roads, recognizing traffic signals and lane markings, noticing crosswalks and other regular features of the...
When it comes to healthcare disruption, technology is often at the center: wearables that track our biological stats, scanners that monitor our internal processes,...
No interstellar travel movie is complete without hibernators. From Prometheus to Passengers, we’ve watched protagonists awaken in hibernation pods, rebooting their fragile physiology from...
Big data, personalized medicine, artificial intelligence. String these three buzzphrases together, and what do you have?
A system that may revolutionize the future of healthcare,...
The future of medicine is a physician-patient-AI golden triangle, one in which machines augment clinical care and diagnostics—one with the patient at its heart.
That...
There’s no shortage of debate about the role tech has played in politics. From misinformation being spread via WhatsApp in Brazil to Facebook becoming...
Silicon Valley's premier tech incubator, Y Combinator, has decided to take on climate change. They've put out a call for proposals for technology that can suck...
In the medical study Hall of Fame, the Framingham Heart Study takes the throne.
An ongoing project that’s spanned three generations and almost 70 years,...
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs....
Hollywood is chockablock with movies about zombie apocalypses caused by some uncontrollable infection, while alarming real-world headlines proclaim the next superbug is just around...
Quantum computers are making all the headlines these days, but quantum communication technology may actually be closer to practical implementation. In a bid to...
DIGITAL MEDIA
Actors Are Digitally Preserving Themselves to Continue Their Careers Beyond the Grave
Erin Winick | MIT Technology Review
"Earlier this year Last Jedi visual-effects supervisor Ben Morris told Inverse that...
It's common to hear phrases like 'machine learning' and 'artificial intelligence' and believe that somehow, someone has managed to replicate a human mind inside...
When scientists made immature human egg cells from donated blood, some speculated that human reproduction was on the verge of a massive disruption.
The future...
Making sure artificial intelligence does what we want and behaves in predictable ways will be crucial as the technology becomes increasingly ubiquitous. It's an...
Whether creating a disruptive business model, developing a radical innovation, or executing a cultural makeover, leaders know that their job is to drive organizational...
ROBOTICS
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Shows Off Parkour Skills
Erico Guizzo | IEEE Spectrum
"The remarkable evolution of Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ most agile robot, continues. In a video...
Governments are one of the last strongholds of an undigitized, linear sector of humanity, and they are falling behind fast. Apart from their struggle...
Each time there’s a headline about driverless trucking technology, another piece is taken out of the old equation. First, an Uber/Otto truck’s safety driver...
For a remarkably social species, we’re not particularly effective communicators.
Finding the right words to clearly, efficient transmit our thoughts to another consciousness—even something as...
It's touch and go whether current efforts to curb carbon emissions will avert catastrophic climate change. That's why a group of billionaires have pledged...
This article was co-written by Jovan David Rebolledo
Artificial intelligence in space exploration is gathering momentum. Over the coming years, new missions look likely to...
ROBOTICS
The Demise of Rethink Robotics Shows How Hard It Is to Make Machines Truly Smart
Will Knight | MIT Technology Review
"There’s growing interest in using recent advances in...
The advocates of hydrogen as the solution to replacing fossil fuels, particularly in transportation, have some compelling arguments. The fuel can be made with...
Disruptive business models are often powered by alternative financing. In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how mobile is redefining money and banking and shared...
What would happen if we made all of our data public—everything from wearables monitoring our biometrics, all the way to smartphones monitoring our location,...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How Google's DeepMind Will Train Its AI Inside Unity's Video Game Worlds
Sean Captain | Fast Company
"DeepMind, part of Google parent company Alphabet, is...
How do you measure innovation?
Thanks to dropping costs, technology has become far more accessible than it used to be, and its proliferation has unleashed...
