The Weird, the Wacky, the Just Plain Cool: Best of CES 2020
As you know if you've ever been to, heard of, or read about the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, there's no shortage of...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 11)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Can an AI Be an Inventor? Not Yet.
Angela Chen | MIT Technology Review
" believes there will be more and more cases where AI...
20 Technology Metatrends That Will Define the Next Decade
In the decade ahead, waves of exponential technological advancements are stacking atop one another, eclipsing decades of breakthroughs in scale and impact.
Emerging from these...
The Standout Tech Trends From CES 2020
Sensor-laden underwear. A toilet-paper-transporting robot. Headwear, wristwear, and bedside gadgets guaranteed to improve your sleep.
These are just a few of the weirdest, wildest pieces...
If Machines Want to Make Art, Will Humans Understand It?
Assuming that the emergence of consciousness in artificial minds is possible, those minds will feel the urge to create art. But will we be...
The Top Biotech Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020
Last year left us with this piece of bombshell news: He Jiankui, the mastermind behind the CRISPR babies scandal, has been sentenced to three...
How Scientists Squeezed a Particle Accelerator Onto a Tiny Silicon Chip
Particle accelerators have helped us unravel some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, but they're huge, expensive, and inaccessible to most researchers. A new particle...
What Needs to Happen to Get to the Flying Car Future
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world’s largest helicopter manufacturers will showcase what a city might look like with high-volume aerial...
Imagining the Smart Cities of 2050
Tomorrow’s cities are reshaping almost every industry imaginable, and birthing those we’ve never heard of.
Riding an explosion of sensors, megacity AI ‘brains', high-speed networks,...
These Breakthroughs Made the 2010s the Decade of the Brain
I rarely use the words transformative or breakthrough for neuroscience findings. The brain is complex, noisy, chaotic, and often unpredictable. One intriguing result under...
The Year’s Most Fascinating Tech Stories From Around the Web
Last Saturday we took a look at some of the most-read Singularity Hub articles from 2019. This week, we're featuring some of our favorite...
Tech’s Biggest Leaps From the Last 10 Years, and Why They Matter
As we enter our third decade in the 21st century, it seems appropriate to reflect on the ways technology developed and note the breakthroughs...
If Machines Want to Make Art, Will Humans Understand It?
Assuming that the emergence of consciousness in artificial minds is possible, those minds will feel the urge to create art. But will we be...
50+ Reasons Our Favorite Emerging Technologies Had an Amazing 2019
For most of history, technology was about atoms, the manipulation of physical stuff to extend humankind’s reach. But in the last five or six...
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