Machine learning provides an entirely new way to tackle one of the classic problems of applied mathematics. | Continue reading
The nation asked its major utility to make plans for six huge reactors. | Continue reading
A study has highlighted the risks inherent in using historical data to train machine-learning algorithms to make predictions.The news: An algorithm that many US health providers use to predict which patients will most need extra medical care privileged white patients over black p … | Continue reading
The US military is without peer in its ability to project power around the world, and that’s not about to change. | Continue reading
Memes come off as a joke, but some people are starting to see them as the serious threat they are. | Continue reading
The practice cuts greenhouse-gas emissions only if you ignore the inconvenient fact that it requires a lot more land. | Continue reading
Is this the Wright brothers' moment for quantum computing? Google certainly thinks so. | Continue reading
The rival maker of quantum computers is disputing the much-vaunted claim that Google has hit a new milestone. | Continue reading
Researchers have developed “prime editing,” a true search-and-replace function for DNA. | Continue reading
AI warfare is beginning to dominate military strategy in the US and China, but is the technology ready? | Continue reading
The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment. | Continue reading
This could open up a glimpse of the universe we’ve never seen before. | Continue reading
The news: Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook should “err on the side of greater expression” during a 35-minute speech at Georgetown University yesterday in which he tried to cast the platform as a champion of free speech and democracy.Facebook’s CEO defended his firm’s recent decision … | Continue reading
Activists on the ground and digital sleuths have spent years documenting chemical attacks and barrel bombs. Now they’re facing a brutal truth. | Continue reading
For centuries, scientists have pondered the “tears” that form in wine glasses. Now they think they know how it happens. | Continue reading
The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there’s a deeper problem. | Continue reading
The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there’s a deeper problem. | Continue reading
If SpaceX gets approval, it could single-handedly quintuple the total number of spacecraft launched by humans. | Continue reading
A new DARPA research program is developing brain-computer interfaces that could control ““swarms of drones, operating at the speed of thought”. What if it succeeds? | Continue reading
Doctors say gene medicine tailored to a single person can work, but it still costs millions. | Continue reading
Form Energy, Antora, and others are trying to develop very cheap, very long-lasting storage to clean up the electricity system. | Continue reading
An algorithm uses radio waves rather than visible light to detect what people are up to without revealing what they look like. | Continue reading
Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran. | Continue reading
A black hole offers plenty of energy sources that might give life a foothold. But a NASA scientist has determined that despite what you saw in the movies, habitable conditions nearby are pretty unlikely. | Continue reading
American companies have for the most part spent the last week conspicuously putting their tails beneath their legs when faced with China’s economic might and the country’s willingness to censor critical opinions.On Wednesday, an emphatic counterpoint arrived in Hong Kong: 500 fre … | Continue reading
The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming. | Continue reading
Fancy trackers and headbands are all part of a growing sleep-tech industry. I decided to put them to the test. | Continue reading
Researchers have successfully shrunk a giant language model to use in commercial applications.Who’s counting? | Continue reading
Publicly, the platform says it’s trying to do what it can to minimize the amplification of extreme content. But it’s still looking for ways to keep users on the site. | Continue reading
The news: France is planning to incorporate facial recognition technology into a mandatory digital identity for its citizens, Bloomberg reports. | Continue reading
New advancements are helping us rethink what we mean when we talk about planetary habitability. | Continue reading
Astronomers think there’s another planet in our solar system, but no one has been able to see it. That could be because it’s not a conventional planet at all. | Continue reading
Gary Marcus, a leader in the field, discusses how we could achieve general intelligence—and why that might make machines safer. | Continue reading
In January, WhatsApp limited how often messages can be forwarded—to only five groups instead of 256—in an attempt to slow the spread of disinformation. | Continue reading
The news: An increasing number of countries are running coordinated social media manipulation campaigns. | Continue reading
Get ready for humans to change the orbit of another rock in space for the first time in history. | Continue reading
A secret-shopper study shows that automated medicine is safer and more efficient than we thought. | Continue reading
Get ready for humans to change the orbit of another rock in space for the first time in history. | Continue reading
It includes 3,000 AI-generated videos that were made using various publicly-available algorithms.The context: Over the past year, generative algorithms have got so good at synthesizing media that what they produce could soon become indistinguishable from reality. | Continue reading
With help from a neural network, researchers reconstructed an image the artist created and painted over during his Blue Period. | Continue reading
The news: According to a report in the Financial Times, a team of researchers from Google led by John Martinis have demonstrated quantum supremacy for the first time. | Continue reading
A new curriculum that helps children understand how algorithms are designed will keep them safe and motivate them to help shape the technology’s future. | Continue reading
The idea that American workers are being left in the dust because they lack technological savvy does not stand up to scrutiny. Our focus should be on coordination and communication between workers and employers. | Continue reading
As older generations stay productive for longer, they will hold on to more of the wealth and power. | Continue reading
It’s time to redirect government subsidies supporting solar and wind farms toward clean technologies that can’t yet compete on their own, according to Bill Gates. | Continue reading
OpenAI’s agents evolved to exhibit complex behaviors, suggesting a promising approach for developing more sophisticated artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
Uber will check in with riders and drivers if it detects unusual activity during rides in the US.How it works: The system, called “RideCheck,” uses the GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other sensors on the driver’s smartphone to monitor for irregular activity, like an unexpecte … | Continue reading
Officials from the People’s Bank of China have hinted in recent weeks that the nation is almost ready to launch a digital version of its currency, the renminbi, to replace physical cash for consumer payments.There are a number of unanswered questions about how it will work, rangi … | Continue reading