Even as a furious debate broke out in China over gene-edited babies, some scientists in the US are also hoping to improve tomorrow’s children. | Continue reading
Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late? | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company’s cloud-computing arm, just announced a new offering aimed at satellite operators. | Continue reading
Scientists are trying to manufacture eggs and sperm in the laboratory. Will it end reproduction as we know it? | Continue reading
Europe and America have far fewer robot workers than we might expect them to have. | Continue reading
Leading scientist calls for Chinese researchers to halt a project to create genetically modified children. | Continue reading
Reprogramming our bodies to make us healthier. | Continue reading
A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing. | Continue reading
Data mining suggests why couples tend to match in desirability—and how to improve your odds when pursuing someone further up the scale. | Continue reading
The automaker believes sponsorship and ride-sharing will be key to making its nascent autonomous-car business take off. | Continue reading
The turbineless design uses electroaerodynamic propulsion to fly and could herald the arrival of quieter, lower-emission aircraft. | Continue reading
Food companies have big plans for the technology. | Continue reading
The turbineless design uses electroaerodynamic propulsion to fly and could herald the arrival of quieter, lower-emission aircraft. | Continue reading
The delivery giant’s new machine-learning app aims to reroute packages away from snow and other trouble spots in its global network. | Continue reading
The main targets were foreign media websites, says a new service that automates censorship-tracking in countries governed by repressive regimes. | Continue reading
The network needs to keep pace with the demands of exciting new technologies like containers and microservices, according to presenters at a recent industry event. The first step in that process is changing the culture. | Continue reading
A survey conducted at the EmTech MIT conference, September 11-14, 2018, and online, yielded some interesting responses on how technology is changing our lives. | Continue reading
Expert chess players run the gamut of feelings when solving chess problems, according to a study with significant implications for machine intelligence. | Continue reading
Researchers have developed an image-processing trick that allows any electronic camera to take ultra-high-speed images–but only in black and white. | Continue reading
Take a look at the TV anchor above. | Continue reading
It pretty much runs the world. | Continue reading
A quantum version of the building block behind neural networks could be exponentially more powerful. | Continue reading
Quantum computers could break the cryptography that conventional blockchains rely on. Now physicists say a way of entangling the present with the past could foil this type of attack. | Continue reading
Darktrace’s unsupervised-learning models sound the alarm before intruders can cause serious damage. | Continue reading
A tech boot camp will teach US politicians and policymakers about the potential, and the risks, of artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
A team from NASA has created maps using satellite data that show the areas most damaged by the ongoing Woolsey and Camp wildfires, the deadliest in the state’s history. | Continue reading
The definition of artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and the term often gets mangled, so we are here to help. | Continue reading
Here are four of the most creative data collection methods used by experts at the leading annual conference on natural-language processing. | Continue reading
Andrew Moore says getting the technology to work in businesses is a huge challenge. | Continue reading
The frightening future of digital fakery has arrived, in the form of a video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta. | Continue reading
A new report has called for more transparency over how companies collect data on children. | Continue reading
A Nebraska cattle facility has turned to a robot to herd its cows—and keep its human workers safe. | Continue reading
The firm will pit its Bristlecone quantum processor against a classical supercomputer early next year and see which comes out on top. | Continue reading
Computers threaten to widen the gap between the rich and poor. It’s in everyone’s interest to narrow it. | Continue reading
At MIT, scholars are taking a rational look at increasingly irrational political discourse. | Continue reading
With nothing but a smartphone and some clever computation, researchers can exploit ambient signals to track individuals in their own homes. | Continue reading
Two startups are using algorithms to track when images are edited—from the moment they’re taken. | Continue reading
Three men with severe spinal cord injuries have walked for the first time in years after receiving targeted electrical stimulation of the spinal cord. | Continue reading
After five years of work, nearly 6.5 million US court cases are now available to access for free online. | Continue reading
At Ethereum’s annual developer conference, its founder tells us why his technology can only be truly decentralized if it stops depending on him. | Continue reading
Teaching an AI system the tricks physicists use to understand the real world produces an extraordinarily powerful machine. | Continue reading
How to make sure your loved ones can get into all your accounts. Or, alternatively—how to cover your tracks. | Continue reading
A portrait created using an AI program has fetched $435,000 in auction at Christie’s, blowing the expected price of $7,000 to $10,000 out of the water. | Continue reading
The fiber-optic cables carrying data across the internet are vulnerable to hacking. Two US initiatives aim to fix that by creating super-secure quantum transmissions. | Continue reading
Anti-aging pioneer Judith Campisi explains how a recent breakthrough could ward off age-related disease. | Continue reading
A new class of tiny flying robots can stick to surfaces and pull heavy objects many times their body weight, according to a new paper in Science Robotics. | Continue reading