The automated programmer, called Repairnator, wrote patches good enough to fool actual human engineers. | Continue reading
Alex Stamos on the risks of giving his former employer and other giant platforms the power to determine what people can—and can’t—say online. | Continue reading
An ambitious project in the Netherlands aims to use quantum technology to foil hackers who try to spy on data flowing through the internet’s pipes. | Continue reading
Ethics are too subjective to guide the use of AI, argue some legal scholars. | Continue reading
Students with little or no cybersecurity knowledge are being paired with easy-to-use AI software that lets them protect their campus from attack. | Continue reading
Molecular circuitry offers a better way to measure, and potentially harness, cellular signaling mechanisms. | Continue reading
The Singularity Summit approaches this weekend in New York. But the Microsoft cofounder and a colleague say the singularity itself is a long way off. | Continue reading
“Ghost acting” is helping young actors build careers beyond their 15 minutes of fame | Continue reading
As we automate more and more decisions, being able to understand how an AI thinks is increasingly important. | Continue reading
Machine-vision systems can match humans at recognizing faces and can even create realistic synthetic faces. But researchers have discovered that the same systems cannot recognize optical illusions, which means they also can’t create new ones. | Continue reading
Even the best AI programs still make stupid mistakes. So DARPA is launching a competition to remedy the field’s most glaring flaw. | Continue reading
Trolls left forensic fingerprints that cybersecurity experts used to find other disinformation campaigns both in the US and elsewhere. | Continue reading
Robert McNamara epitomizes the hyper-rational executive led astray by numbers. | Continue reading
A new mathematical model suggests that signs of extraterrestrial intelligence could be common, for all we know—we’ve barely begun investigating the vastness where they might lie. | Continue reading
AI researchers at the Chinese tech giant Tencent have posted details of two programs capable of beating the “cheating” AI found in the popular video game Starcraft. | Continue reading
It should be possible to automatically identify dubious news sources—but we’ll need a lot more data. | Continue reading
The company’s easy-to-use robots helped kick-start a big trend. So what happened? | Continue reading
A Harvard study raises questions about just how much wind should be part of a climate solution. | Continue reading
Quantum computing isn’t going to revolutionize AI anytime soon, according to a panel of experts in both fields. | Continue reading
Jigsaw, the security incubator owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has just rolled out a tool that lets users bypass sites that are blocked by repressive governments. | Continue reading
Pivot Bio just got a $70 million infusion from Bill Gates’s energy fund and other investors to launch its commercial product next year. | Continue reading
A startup’s concept drawing of a hulking device to archive data in DNA molecules shows the idea has a way to go. | Continue reading
Down on a new robot farm, machines tend rows of leafy greens under the watch of software called “The Brain.” | Continue reading
The World Wide Web’s inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, has launched a way to make it easier for people to control their personal data. | Continue reading
Why do most patients fail to respond to the newest cures? | Continue reading
BrainNet allows collaborative problem-solving using direct brain-to-brain communication. | Continue reading
Two new reports suggest that electrically stimulating the spinal cords of accident victims can let them walk again. | Continue reading
Transatomic Power, an MIT spinout that drew wide attention and millions in funding, is shutting down almost two years after the firm backtracked on bold claims for its design of a molten-salt reactor. | Continue reading
Building bigger telescopes is challenging and expensive. But quantum teleportation can help, physicists say. | Continue reading
China’s Alibaba has announced a subsidiary that that will develop computer chips specifically designed for artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
The flexible stamp can collect data that usually requires bulky, invasive equipment. | Continue reading
By the end of the year, it plans to have more than 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in use to help train workers. | Continue reading
A year after announcing an aggressive plan to dominate artificial intelligence, China’s vice premier has called for international collaboration. | Continue reading
But research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think. | Continue reading
Researchers have built a system to create a larger and more diverse data set on which to train medical AI. | Continue reading
The pioneer behind a new national plan says it could help the US compete—and address a looming shortage of quantum engineers. | Continue reading
AI has huge potential to transform our lives, but the term itself is being abused in very worrying ways, says Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. | Continue reading
CeCe Moore’s company has been helping police departments solve cold cases by uploading crime-scene DNA to public genealogy databases. | Continue reading
The news: Hurricane Florence is forecast to hit North Carolina on Friday, and the US National Weather Service now predicts some areas will see more than 30 inches of rain. | Continue reading
Shrinking transistors have powered 50 years of advances in computing—but now other ways must be found to make computers more capable. | Continue reading
Gene scores can pick most people likely to be extremely tall, super smart, or out of the ordinary. | 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
Machine translation works well for sentences but turns out to falter at the document level, computational linguists have found. | Continue reading
The first Obama campaign kicked off a technological revolution in electioneering. Where is it going next? | Continue reading
It’s using lasers to power the aerial machines. | Continue reading