NEUROSCIENCE
Facebook Is Funding Brain Experiments to Create a Device That Reads Your Mind
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"The research is important because it could...
I’ve been watching the outstanding HBO series Chernobyl, which details the worst nuclear reactor meltdown in human history—an event that was approximately 400 times...
Brain-machine interface enthusiasts often gush about “closing the loop.” It’s for good reason. On the implant level, it means engineering smarter probes that only...
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment anti-aging research morphed from quackery to an established science. Some say it’s 1939, when an experiment that...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI to Pursue Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence
James Vincent | The Verge
"i'The creation of AGI will be the...
In this gig-economy age of entrepreneurs and full-time hustlers, podcasts have become a signature way to stay up-to-date, inspired, and educated while on the...
Last week, Elon Musk’s mysterious Neuralink finally revealed their master plan after two years of silence: to build high bandwidth, immune resistant, thread-like brain-machine...
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Despite increasing global consensus about the urgency of reducing emissions since the...
ROBOTICS
Boston Dynamics' Robots Are Preparing to Leave the Lab—Is the World Ready?
James Vincent | The Verge
"After decades of kicking machines in parking lots, the...
Poker is a powerful combination of strategy and intuition, something that’s made it the most iconic of card games and devilishly difficult for machines...
Your New Best Friend?
Making a new friend is a complex business. You might begin with small talk: introductions, explorations. Perhaps you bond over something...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
'Superhuman' AI Crushes Pros at Six-Player Texas Hold'em
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo
" said, 'Poker in particular has been an early sandbox for AI, and...
The government’s hefty arsenal of surveillance tools just welcomed a powerful new member. Rather than monitoring an external device—a bug or a smartphone—or even...
When it comes to battling cancer, our most powerful weapon is also our most dangerous.
You’ve heard of CAR-T: the cellular immunotherapy extracts a patient’s...
In early April 2019, something was suddenly very different about Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Instagram account. In lieu of retro-style pictures of chicken, a decidedly...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Machine Learning Has Been Used to Automatically Translate Long-Lost Languages
Emerging Technology from the arXiv | MIT Technology Review
"Some languages that have never been...
Facebook is joining the cryptocurrency craze. Should we be concerned?
The social network site on June 18 said it’s launching a new cryptocurrency called Libra...
There’s a very un-sexy view of consciousness: our rich, meaningful inner experience of self and other is nothing but electrical and chemical chattering inside...
There’s an old proverb that says “seeing is believing.” But in the age of artificial intelligence, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to take anything at...
MINIATURIZATION
Self-Assembling Microrobots Can Be Programmed to Form a Tiny Steerable Car
Luke Dormehl | Digital Trends
"Remember the way that different 'Zords' in Power Rangers joined...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. This was possible thanks to an extraordinary acceleration of space technology. Within...
An army of free-floating minibrain clones are heading your way!
No, that’s not the premise of a classic sci-fi brain-in-jars blockbuster. Rather, a team at...
Would you consent to a surveillance system that watches without video and listens without sound?
If your knee-jerk reaction is “no!”, then “huh?” I’m with...
ROBOTICS
This Freaky Robotic Fish Is Powered by 'Blood'
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo
"In an effort to create more autonomous, life-like robots, scientists have developed a soft...
Lab-grown meat is getting a lot of attention along with plant-based meat substitutes. Technology is driving the industry toward providing alternatives to conventionally produced...
When Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced he had edited the genomes of two babies last November, he sparked an international outcry. Many feared he...
Artificially intelligent systems are slowly taking over tasks previously done by humans, and many processes involving repetitive, simple movements have already been fully automated....
