This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 7)
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...
First-Ever Artificial Neuron Could Let Us Repair Brain Injuries with Silicon
The merging of man and machine is a staple of sci-fi and at the heart of the philosophy of transhumanism. But interfacing our brains...
How We’ll Buy Things in 2030: Smart Stores and Personalized Experiences
How do you buy your stuff? Do you get in your car, or type with your fingers?
E-commerce is surging while brick-and-mortar sales fall. What could...
Why Your 5G Phone Connection Could Mean Lousy Weather Forecasts
Will getting full bars on your 5G connection mean getting caught out by sudden weather changes?
The question may strike you as hypothetical, nonsensical...
Flying Cars, Aerial Ridesharing, and the Not-Too-Distant Future of Transport
In 2018, for the sixth straight year, Los Angeles earned the dubious honor of being the most gridlocked metropolis in the world, where the...
How a New Smart Skin Patch Uses Vibrations to Track Your Health
Wearables are so common these days we rarely give them second thought. Yet packed into FitBits and Apple Watches are multiple tiny, sensitive sensors...
Alphabet Is Developing a Robot to Take Over Boring Everyday Tasks
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...
Our Place in the Universe Will Change Dramatically in the Next 50 Years—Here’s How
In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these words: “There is...
The Smart Road Tech That’s Making Driving Faster, Safer, and Just...
From autonomous cars to flying taxis to electric-powered aircraft, technological innovations in transportation vehicles seem to be moving faster than Elon Musk’s express loop...
After AI, Fashion and Shopping Will Never Be the Same
AI and broadband are eating retail for breakfast. In the first half of 2019, we’ve seen 19 retailer bankruptcies. And the retail apocalypse is...
An AI Debated Its Own Potential for Good vs. Harm. Here’s What It Came...
Artificial intelligence is going to overhaul the way we live and work. But will the changes it brings be for the better? As the...
Designer Babies? Simulation Shows They Won’t Happen Anytime Soon
Roughly a year ago, the creation of CRISPRed twins reignited fierce debate and trepidation about our oncoming era of designer babies. The experiment, designed...
Synthetic ‘Skin’ Is Bringing a Sense of Touch to Virtual Reality
Virtual reality’s ability to create artificial worlds has come a long way in recent years. Now new technology could make those worlds even more...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 23)
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...
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