Peter Rejcek
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When the Mother of Invention Is a Machine, Who Gets Credit?
What do the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush, about a thousand musical compositions and even a few recent food recipes all have in common?
They were invented by computers, but you won’t find a nonhuman credited with...
How a Mars Voyage Will Be Like Enduring an Antarctic Winter
Humans will get to Mars in the not-so-distant future. We know that. What we don’t know is how a journey to the Red Planet will affect us both mentally and physically.
NASA is turning to...
How Crowdfunding Has Changed the Startup Game
The development of innovative technology — from virtual reality headsets to space exploration to solar-powered roadways — is no longer the province of companies with big R&D budgets or venture capitalists with deep pockets....
Why Are Millions of People Ditching Their Wearable Devices?
Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. Others, meanwhile, measure their heartrate on their wrists.
The latter group is growing exponentially, ushering in a multi-billion-dollar wearables market, from watches that count steps and heartbeats...
If There’s Life on Europa, Robots Like These Will Find It
The exploration of Europa begins under the ice in Antarctica.
That’s where a team of researchers, led by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), has been testing a variety of robotic subs in recent...
The Robots We’ve Long Imagined Are Finally Here
They are wise-cracking companions, able to communicate in more than six million languages. Others are bent on enslaving or destroying humanity, deeming themselves better, more rational caretakers of the Earth in light of our...
