Using a laser to detect the effect of radio waves on certain atoms is the basis for a new kind of antenna that resists interference and can receive a wider range of signals. | Continue reading
Aviv Regev helped pioneer single-cell genomics. Now she’s cochairing a massive effort to map the trillions of cells in the human body. Biology will never be the same. | Continue reading
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro claims that sales of the petro, the supposedly oil-reserve-backed national cryptocurrency he launched in February, have already raised $3.3 billion, and that the coin is being used to pay for imports. | Continue reading
The tech incubator will finally begin its full-fledged basic-income test in 2019. | Continue reading
A host of states and lobby groups want courts to overturn the Trump administration’s decision to scrap the regulations. | Continue reading
MIT Technology Review helps you figure out who is on the other side of your debate. | Continue reading
The country isn’t a world leader in autonomous or electric vehicles, but it’s all in on putting cars in the sky. | Continue reading
The algorithm is saving about $10 million as part of an effort to replace the city’s water infrastructure. | Continue reading
21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries. | Continue reading
Independent cybersleuthing is a realistic career path, if you can live cheaply. | Continue reading
The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk. | Continue reading
The first Obama campaign kicked off a technological revolution in electioneering. Where is it going next? | Continue reading
Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online and why divides are so hard to bridge. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is helping to crack the challenge of creating lifelike light and shadow effects in games. | Continue reading
Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them. | Continue reading
Filling code with benign bugs overwhelms malicious attackers looking for more serious errors, cybersecurity researchers say. | Continue reading
In a first, Google is trusting a self-taught algorithm to manage part of its infrastructure. | Continue reading
The sports world has been dealing with the human error of referees and umpires for decades—it’s pretty much tradition at this point. | Continue reading
Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them. | Continue reading
Sila Nanotechnologies has pulled off double-digit performance gains for lithium-ion batteries, promising to lower costs or add capabilities for cars and phones. | Continue reading
C-V2X enables vehicles to communicate, which should reduce accidents and aid autonomous driving. | Continue reading
Increased use of machine learning and cloud services could make the financial world more vulnerable. | Continue reading
It was able to stay in the air for 25 days straight. | Continue reading
The author of a new book on autonomous weapons says scientists working on artificial intelligence need to do more to prevent the technology from being weaponized. | Continue reading
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves. | Continue reading
The author of a new book on autonomous weapons says scientists working on artificial intelligence need to do more to prevent the technology from being weaponized. | Continue reading
The success shows that advances in artificial intelligence aren’t the sole domain of elite programmers. | Continue reading
Summit is a stepping stone toward a world of exascale computing. | Continue reading
The automaker is testing whether productivity gains among workers who wear the strength-boosting suits make the technology cost-effective. | Continue reading
Licenses for new ride-hailing vehicles in the city are about to get scarce. | Continue reading
America’s vice president called on Congress to allocate $8 billion to fund the Space Force and space security systems over the next five years. | Continue reading
This week’s Black Hat event will highlight job-related stress and mental health issues in the cyber workforce. | Continue reading
Coursera is unveiling a new machine learning tool to show companies what skills their employees are acquiring from its classes and their level of expertise. | Continue reading
A feature that helps you post updates in multiple languages will also provide data to train software on colloquial speech. | Continue reading
For at least the last 10 million years every yeast cell of the sort used to make beer or bread has had 16 chromosomes. | Continue reading
An ambitious smart-city project spearheaded by Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs has run into local resistance, causing delays. | Continue reading
The University of Oklahoma expert on extreme weather looks set to head the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)—assuming the Senate approves The news: The Washington Post says that President Trump intends to nominate Droegemeier to the top job at the OSTP, … | Continue reading
The company’s self-driving cars are taking to the streets in Frisco, Texas. | Continue reading
The rocket company will now be attempting to land and reuse all the rockets it launches. | Continue reading
The United States could lose its economic and political standing in the world if it doesn’t develop a comprehensive, high-priority plan for artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
In theory, an iris scanner can be hacked using an eyeball plucked from the victim. Now researchers have trained a machine-vision system to tell the difference between dead irises and live ones. | Continue reading
As more robots are connected to the internet, they will become targets for cybercrime and mischief. | Continue reading
The $20 million Lunar X Prize was supposed to send startups into space. The cost turned out to be far higher than the reward—but the competitors were never really in it for the trophy. | Continue reading
Word frequency patterns show that humans process common and uncommon words in different ways, with important consequences for natural-language processing. | Continue reading
The Japanese nuclear disaster bathed north America in a radioactive cloud. Now pharmacologists have found the telltale signature in California wine made at the time. | Continue reading
Its new open-source software will help developers experiment with the machines, including Google’s own super-powerful quantum processor. | Continue reading
Neural networks have garnered all the headlines, but a much more powerful approach is waiting in the wings. | Continue reading
Word frequency patterns show that humans process common and uncommon words in different ways, with important consequences for natural-language processing. | Continue reading