The curious contraption at University College London bordered between scientific wizardry and a terrifying Black Mirror episode. It might have just proved a decades-long...
The first planets discovered outside our solar system were strange, unfamiliar worlds. These were giants like Jupiter, hotter than Venus, tearing around their suns...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton: 'Deep Learning Is Going to Be Able to Do Everything'
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"i'I do believe deep learning...
Twitter over the weekend “tagged” as manipulated a video showing US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden supposedly forgetting which state he’s in while addressing...
You can plausibly say today’s virtual reality is a descendent of smartphones. The affordable sensors, chips, and high-resolution displays critical to rendering a decent...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Has Cracked a Key Mathematical Puzzle for Understanding Our World
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary...
We’ve all had the experience of sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic with nothing but miles of red taillights ahead, wishing we could somehow break away...
AUGMENTED REALITY
Forget AR Glasses. Augmented Reality Is Headed to Your Windshield
Luke Dormehl | Digital Trends
"...What Envisics has developed is a headset-free, in-car holography system...
AI is continuously taking on new challenges, from detecting deepfakes (which, incidentally, are also made using AI) to winning at poker to giving synthetic...
Machine learning is taking medical diagnosis by storm. From eye disease, breast and other cancers, to more amorphous neurological disorders, AI is routinely matching...
Superconductivity could be the key to groundbreaking new technologies in energy, computing, and transportation, but so far it only occurs in materials chilled close...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A Radical New Technique Lets AI Learn With Practically No Data
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"Shown photos of a horse and a rhino,...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati
Rhett Jones | Gizmodo
"..the length of the replies was especially unusual...
Synthetic biology is like a reality-altering version of Minecraft. Rather than digital blocks, synthetic biology rejiggers the basic building blocks of life—DNA, proteins, biochemical...
Nuclear fusion has gone from a scientists’ pipe dream to a technology attracting serious investment. Now one of the startups chasing this holy grail...
Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question whose answer—whether it's yes or no—would philosophically and scientifically rock our world to the core.
To...
COMPUTING
Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer Sets New Mark for Quantum Volume
John Timmer | Ars Technica
"While still the offerings of companies that are using superconducting...
Amid the horrific public health and economic fallout from a fast-moving pandemic, a more positive phenomenon is playing out: Covid-19 has provided opportunities to...
Is social media ruining the world?
Dramatic political polarization. Rising anxiety and depression. An uptick in teen suicide rates. Misinformation that spreads like wildfire.
The common...
SENSORS
'Extremely Brilliant' X-Ray Beams Are About to Revolutionize How We See Into Matter
Rose Pastore | Gizmodo
"A new way of producing powerful X-ray beams—the brightest...
The point at which quantum computers transition from expensive science experiments to a technology that could reshape the future always seems about a decade...
Even for high-tech California, the man strolling around UCLA was a curious sight.
His motion capture suit, sensor-embedded gloves, and virtual reality eyewear were already...
