Stimulating parts of the brain with electricity to get brain waves back in sync temporarily reverses the effects of age-related memory loss. | Continue reading
A quest to understand how human intelligence evolved raises some ethical questions. | Continue reading
A new low-cost robot arm that can be controlled using a virtual-reality headset will make it easier to experiment with AI and robotics. | Continue reading
Ageism at tech companies in China is running rampant, forcing people who elsewhere would be entering the prime of their careers out of the industry. | Continue reading
Together, deep learning and symbolic reasoning create a program that learns in a remarkably humanlike way. | Continue reading
Face recognition proved totally unable to identify the faces of drivers in the city, according to the Wall Street Journal. | Continue reading
Yet more proof that innovation isn’t only for the young. | Continue reading
We asked experts for practical suggestions on why Google’s AI ethics council bombed and what the company should do next. | Continue reading
LA-based Relativity Space announced a deal with Telesat today to launch a portion of its new internet satellite constellation. | Continue reading
We asked experts for practical suggestions on why Google’s AI ethics council bombed and what the company should do next. | Continue reading
The world’s most agile robots are about to get a lot smarter thanks to the purchase of a startup focused on computer vision and machine learning. | Continue reading
Stronger and more flexible than graphene, a single-atom layer of boron could revolutionize sensors, batteries, and catalytic chemistry. | Continue reading
The council lasted barely more than a week, after thousands of Google employees signed a petition calling for the removal of one member. | Continue reading
Researchers at MIT have used AI to improve the flavor of basil. It’s part of a trend that is seeing artificial intelligence revolutionize farming. | Continue reading
UPS has started delivering medical samples in the US, using drones built by Matternet. | Continue reading
The plan is going to be tricky to pull off, both technically and politically, but the Kremlin has set its sights on self-sufficiency. | Continue reading
A team at George Church’s Harvard lab wants to redesign species with large-scale DNA changes. | Continue reading
Microsoft has helped build the first device that automatically encodes digital information into DNA and back to bits again. DNA storage: Microsoft has been working toward a photocopier-size device that would replace data centers by storing files, movies, and documents in DNA st … | Continue reading
The plan is going to be tricky to pull off, both technically and politically, but the Kremlin has set its sights on self-sufficiency. | Continue reading
The first wave of crypto-focused smartphones from big players like Samsung is a small step toward a decentralized web. | Continue reading
The newest addition to the commercial crew explains how he is preparing for space again, eight years after his last trip. | Continue reading
Complexity science explains why efforts to reject the mainstream merely result in a new conformity. | Continue reading
Trucking will be computerized long before surgery, computer scientists say. | Continue reading
Hanabi is a card game that relies on theory of mind and a higher level of reasoning than either Go or chess—no wonder DeepMind’s researchers want to tackle it next. | Continue reading
The first large-scale study of the Urban Dictionary provides unique insights into the way our language is evolving. | Continue reading
How it works, why it’s so powerful, and where it’s likely to be most useful first | Continue reading
Using light projected into resin, it creates solid objects all in one go, rather than in layers. | Continue reading
The Japanese government will try to hack into internet-connected devices in homes and offices around the country starting from next month as part of efforts to improve cybersecurity, NHK World-Japan reports. | Continue reading
Neural networks have been used to turn words that a human has heard into intelligible, recognizable speech. | Continue reading
Just two teams of sophisticated cybercriminals appear to have been behind $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency thefts from online exchanges in recent years. | Continue reading
Chinese scientists using single-pixel cameras have made huge strides in imaging speed. | Continue reading
Earth’s magnetic north pole is moving so quickly and unpredictably that our existing navigation models will have to be updated years earlier than scheduled. | Continue reading
At Xerox’s famed Palo Alto Research Center their’s a new factor in innovation: teams of anthropologists who study how people interact with machines (and each other) in the workplace. | Continue reading
To uncover the secrets of humor, researchers crowdsourced the task of turning satirical sentences from The Onion into serious ones. | Continue reading
Humans are instinctively tribal creatures. | Continue reading
More than half of the country’s major AI players have funding ties that lead back to Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. | Continue reading
The small, streamlined design could have benefits over other devices. | Continue reading
More than half of the country’s major AI players have funding ties that lead back to Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. | Continue reading
Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past. | Continue reading
WhatsApp is limiting the number of times a user can forward a message to five, as part of a global effort to combat “misinformation and rumors,” it announced today. | Continue reading
A new form of online survey uses crowdsourcing and data visualization to reveal the hidden nuances in partisan debates. | Continue reading
The mission of MIT Technology Review is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influential, and trustworthy journalism. | Continue reading
One of the largest ever collections of breached data, including 773 million e-mail addresses and over 21 million passwords, has been discovered. | Continue reading
Reinforcement learning has helped a four-legged bot move a bit like a real animal, without having to be taught how to make each step. | Continue reading
CERN wants to go super-sized. | Continue reading
A robot that can peel lettuce shows just how dexterous bots are becoming. | Continue reading
Decision making is influenced by the complexity of the situation, the skill of the decision maker, and the time pressure. But one of these is much more important than the others, a new study reveals. | Continue reading