Recent progress in AI largely boils down to one thing: Scale.
Around the beginning of this decade, AI labs noticed that making their algorithms—or models—ever...
Peter Shor published one of the earliest algorithms for quantum computers in 1994. Running Shor's algorithm on a hypothetical quantum computer, one could rapidly...
As our energy mix shifts towards intermittent renewable sources, utility-scale batteries will be crucial for balancing power supply. The latest figures from the US...
Automating food is unlike automating anything else. Food is fundamental to life—nourishing body and soul—so how it’s accessed, prepared, and consumed can change societies...
ROBOTICS
This Could Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution
Will Knight | Wired
"In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that...
After years of overly aggressive forecasts about self-driving cars, here's a statistic that snuck up on us: People are now hailing 100,000 automated rides...