Robots that paint have gotten pretty impressive

The Robotart (that’s “Robot art”) competition aims to combine art and engineering to advance both fields. | Continue reading


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Russian agents allegedly used Bitcoin to fund the DNC hack

Among the many new details in today’s indictment (PDF) of 12 Russian intelligence officers for cyberattacks meant to interfere with the US presidential election in 2016, one in particular should stand out to techies: the defendants allegedly used Bitcoin to fund the operation. | Continue reading


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Saudi Arabian women are getting gigs as ride-hailing drivers

The country’s ban on female drivers has been removed, and the first women are taking the wheel. | Continue reading


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Tesla says it will build a factory in China that can produce 500,000 cars a year

The move could help cement the brand in China and circumvent steep tariffs on the cars. | Continue reading


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US may have just pulled even with China in the race to build exascale computer

The two countries are vying to build an exascale computer that could lead to significant advances in many scientific fields. | Continue reading


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First evidence that amino acids formed soon after the Big Bang

A new measurement of chemical evolution suggests that amino acids filled the early universe some nine billion years before life emerged. That has important implications for understanding the origin of life and attempting to re-create it in the lab. | Continue reading


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Human labor is propping up some companies’ fake AI software

There isn’t always a computer program behind “AI” services—sometimes it’s just plain old “I. | Continue reading


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Given a satellite image, machine learning creates the view on the ground

Geographers could use the technique to determine how land is used. | Continue reading


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An advanced civilization could resist the accelerating expansion of the universe

And Earth-bound astronomers should be able to tell if someone is out there doing it, a physicist says. | Continue reading


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Given a satellite image, machine learning creates the view on the ground

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NASA will test quieter supersonic booms over Texas this year

Residents of Galveston, Texas will serve as “sonic thump” guinea pigs. | Continue reading


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Given a satellite image, machine learning creates the view on the ground

Geographers could use the technique to determine how land is used. | Continue reading


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‘China’s Google’ releases its first AI chip

Baidu unveiled an artificial-intelligence chip called Kunlun during its annual Baidu Create event on Tuesday. | Continue reading


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Despite shadiness and crackdowns, the ICO boom is bigger than ever

The initial coin offering marketplace has a sketchy reputation thanks to scammers, and it’s in the spotlight of financial regulators all over the world—but that hasn’t scared investors away yet. | Continue reading


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The secret world of disabled gamers

Studies like this one could begin to make digital games more accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. | Continue reading


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Algorithm matches human cardiologists in detecting heart attacks

Medical data tends to be messy and hard to annotate, which makes it hard for neural networks to learn from. But machine learning is beginning to make progress. | Continue reading


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Machine Dreams (2015)

To rescue its struggling business, Hewlett-Packard is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work. | Continue reading


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We still have no idea how to eliminate more than a quarter of energy emissions

Air travel, shipping, and manufacturing are huge sources of carbon that we lack good options for addressing. | Continue reading


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Big-money politics is making it harder than ever to tame Big Tech. | Continue reading


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Inside the effort to print lungs and breathe life into them with stem cells

Martine Rothblatt wants to end transplant shortages with 3-D-printed lungs. | Continue reading


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The Trump administration is discussing America’s AI future

The first meeting of the AI Select Committee will take place this afternoon, Ross Gillfillan, an official at the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, told MIT Technology Review. | Continue reading


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35 Innovators Under 35

The mission of MIT Technology Review is to equip its audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology. | Continue reading


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Confessions of an accidental job destroyer

Behind every piece of automation is a human who made it happen. | Continue reading


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Let's make private data into a public good

The internet giants depend on our data. A new relationship between us and them could deliver real value to society. | Continue reading


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India’s mess of complexity is just what AI needs

The country’s diversity of scripts, dialects, dress, and culture is a challenge that will make artificial intelligence more resilient. | Continue reading


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A digital capitalism Marx might enjoy

The conflict between labor and capital has shifted in capital’s favor. But there are some ways labor could fight back. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

Confessions of an accidental job destroyer

Behind every piece of automation is a human who made it happen. | Continue reading


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A team of AI algorithms just crushed humans in a complex computer game

Algorithms capable of collaboration and teamwork can outmaneuver human teams. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

Isaac Asimov asks, “how do people get new ideas?”

A 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity | Continue reading


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How the proposed reorganization of the federal government could impact sci-tech

The Trump administration announced a proposal to revamp, retool, and reorganize America’s federal government. | Continue reading


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How many people to send to Proxima Centauri to be sure someone actually arrives

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A program that learns to “imagine” the world shows how AI can think more like us

DeepMind’s advance could lead to machines that can make better sense of a scene. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch

How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

How many people to send to Proxima Centauri to ensure someone actually arrives

Since it would take at least 6,300 years to reach the closest star to our sun, enough men and women to produce many genetically healthy generations would need to make the trip. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

Alphabet is in talks to spin out its molten-salt storage play

Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures is involved in the deal. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

Over one-third of industrial robots purchased last year were installed in China

A new report by the International Federation of Robotics reveals that more than 380,000 industrial bots were sold in 2017—a 29 percent growth over the prior year. | Continue reading


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A freshly-funded battery startup aims to ease the cobalt crunch

Conamix, a little-known Ithaca, New York-based startup, has raised several million dollars to accelerate its development of cobalt-free materials for lithium-ion batteries, in the latest sign that companies are eager to find alternatives to the increasingly rare and expensive met … | Continue reading


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Donald Trump Has Ordered the Pentagon to Create the US Space Force

The Space Force would constitute the sixth branch of the US armed forces. | Continue reading


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Five ways you can already become a cyborg, one body part at a time

Want to use your hand to prove your identity? Become a better skier without any work? Try this. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

This AI program could beat you in an argument

The latest human-versus-machine matchup involves an argumentative AI system. | Continue reading


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Keeping America first in quantum computing means avoiding these five mistakes

Potential pitfalls include putting the military in charge and spraying too much money around. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

The productivity paradox

The mission of MIT Technology Review is to equip its audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology. | Continue reading


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AI could wreak economic havoc–we need more of it

Artificial intelligence is offering an amazing opportunity to increase prosperity, but whether or not ­we will seize it is our choice. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

Tencent and Alibaba’s mobile payment war shows how far China is ahead of the US

The Chinese tech giants are dropping major cash to rise to the top in the country’s mobile payment battle. | Continue reading


@technologyreview.com | 6 years ago

A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself

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Three years later, Google still has big-time diversity issues

The search giant released its employee diversity report yesterday, and things haven’t improved much. | Continue reading


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We can now use AI to see through walls

Wireless radio signals can be used to monitor a person’s precise movements through a solid wall, thanks to artificial intelligence. | Continue reading


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A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself

Unlike chess moves, changes to a Rubik’s Cube are hard to evaluate, which is why deep-learning machines haven’t been able to solve the puzzle on their own. Until now. | Continue reading


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