Forget costly prototypes, traditional textile manufacturing, product recalls, and the like. 3D printing is about to turn the entire retail industry on its head.
A...
While flying cars may someday deliver on the Jetsons-like promise of buzzing around cities in robotic air taxis, the future of commercial aviation is...
Humans are nowhere near an interstellar species. No Zefram Cochrane has emerged to make warp drive practical. No alien protomolecule has erected a gate...
2019 was nuts for neuroscience. I said this last year too, but that’s the nature of accelerating technologies: the advances just keep coming.
There’re the...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Computer Is Set to Complete Beethoven's Unfinished Symphony
Justin Huggler | The Guardian
"In the most ambitious project of its type ever attempted, a computer...
ROBOTICS
Sarcos Demonstrates Exosuit That Gives Workers Super Strength
Evan Ackerman | IEEE SPectrum
"The Sarcos Guardian XO is a 24-degrees-of-freedom full-body robotic exoskeleton. While wearing it,...
Although it may not be obvious, there’s a close link between manufacturing technology and innovation. Elon Musk often talks of the “machines that build...
The food chain has always worked roughly like this: sunlight feeds plants. Plants feed insects. Insects and plants feed animals. Plants and animals feed...
Dmitry Kaminskiy speaks as though he were trying to unload everything he knows about the science and economics of longevity—from senolytics research that seeks...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Former Go Champion Beaten by DeepMind Retires After Declaring AI Invincible
James Vincent | The Verge
"'With the debut of AI in Go games, I’ve...
Will getting full bars on your 5G connection mean getting caught out by sudden weather changes?
The question may strike you as hypothetical, nonsensical...
Wearables are so common these days we rarely give them second thought. Yet packed into FitBits and Apple Watches are multiple tiny, sensitive sensors...
Robots excel at carrying out specialized tasks in controlled environments, but put them in your average office and they’d be lost. Alphabet wants to...
In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these words: “There is...
Roughly a year ago, the creation of CRISPRed twins reignited fierce debate and trepidation about our oncoming era of designer babies. The experiment, designed...
COMPUTING
A Giant Superfast AI Chip Is Being Used to Find Better Cancer Drugs
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"Thus far, Cerebras’s computer has checked all...
Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these extrasolar planets,...
Machine learning algorithms are starting to exceed human performance in many narrow and specific domains, such as image recognition and certain types of medical...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
Matthew Hutson | Quanta
"In a recent paper, Clune argues that open-ended discovery is likely the fastest path...
What’s faster than autonomous vehicles and flying cars?
Try Hyperloop, rocket travel, and robotic avatars. Hyperloop is currently working towards 670 mph (1080 kph) passenger...
Aging is reversible.
It’s still a somewhat controversial idea in humans. Yet recent attempts at delaying—or even reversing—diseases that pop up with age in animals...
Labor unions have been around since the mid-19th century, and they’ve helped many a teacher, government employee, electrical worker, and others gain fairer pay...
ROBOTICS
It's That Time of Year Again—Fall Is Here and Packs of Robot Dogs Are Frolicking in the Leaves
James Vincent | The Verge
"There’s nothing I...
We are about to massively increase the amount of human genius on Earth in two distinct ways.
First, by identifying and connecting those geniuses that...
