Peter Rejcek
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Killer Robots Won’t Go to War If Global Movement Has Its Way
Much ink has been spilled in recent years about the rise of killer robots. A movement to ensure no blood is shed by autonomous weapons—machines that kill or maim without a human behind the...
New AI Mental Health Tools Beat Human Doctors at Assessing Patients
About 20 percent of youth in the United States live with a mental health condition, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is that mental health professionals have...
Why the US Is Losing Ground on the Next Generation of Powerful Supercomputers
“I feel the need — the need for speed.”
The tagline from the 1980s movie Top Gun could be seen as the mantra for the high-performance computing system world these days. The next milestone in the endless...
These Wild New Floors Will Harvest Energy From Your Footsteps
The road to renewable energy requires one step at a time.
Well, actually, it requires quite a few steps.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Forest Products Laboratory in Madison believe they can harness the...
Tech Philanthropists Are Giving Away Billions to Build a Better Future
They’re often featured as James Bond villains — super-rich megalomaniacs who pour their infinite resources into sophisticated doomsday devices, private rockets for last-minute escapes, and enough high-tech toys to rival the NSA, FBI and...
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...
