The Robotart (that’s “Robot art”) competition aims to combine art and engineering to advance both fields. | Continue reading
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
The country’s ban on female drivers has been removed, and the first women are taking the wheel. | Continue reading
The move could help cement the brand in China and circumvent steep tariffs on the cars. | Continue reading
The two countries are vying to build an exascale computer that could lead to significant advances in many scientific fields. | Continue reading
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
There isn’t always a computer program behind “AI” services—sometimes it’s just plain old “I. | Continue reading
Geographers could use the technique to determine how land is used. | Continue reading
And Earth-bound astronomers should be able to tell if someone is out there doing it, a physicist says. | Continue reading
Residents of Galveston, Texas will serve as “sonic thump” guinea pigs. | Continue reading
Geographers could use the technique to determine how land is used. | Continue reading
Baidu unveiled an artificial-intelligence chip called Kunlun during its annual Baidu Create event on Tuesday. | Continue reading
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
Studies like this one could begin to make digital games more accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. | Continue reading
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
To rescue its struggling business, Hewlett-Packard is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work. | Continue reading
Air travel, shipping, and manufacturing are huge sources of carbon that we lack good options for addressing. | Continue reading
Big-money politics is making it harder than ever to tame Big Tech. | Continue reading
Martine Rothblatt wants to end transplant shortages with 3-D-printed lungs. | Continue reading
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
The mission of MIT Technology Review is to equip its audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology. | Continue reading
Behind every piece of automation is a human who made it happen. | Continue reading
The internet giants depend on our data. A new relationship between us and them could deliver real value to society. | Continue reading
The country’s diversity of scripts, dialects, dress, and culture is a challenge that will make artificial intelligence more resilient. | Continue reading
The conflict between labor and capital has shifted in capital’s favor. But there are some ways labor could fight back. | Continue reading
Behind every piece of automation is a human who made it happen. | Continue reading
Algorithms capable of collaboration and teamwork can outmaneuver human teams. | Continue reading
A 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity | Continue reading
The Trump administration announced a proposal to revamp, retool, and reorganize America’s federal government. | Continue reading
DeepMind’s advance could lead to machines that can make better sense of a scene. | Continue reading
How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers. | Continue reading
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
Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures is involved in the deal. | Continue reading
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
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
The Space Force would constitute the sixth branch of the US armed forces. | Continue reading
Want to use your hand to prove your identity? Become a better skier without any work? Try this. | Continue reading
The latest human-versus-machine matchup involves an argumentative AI system. | Continue reading
Potential pitfalls include putting the military in charge and spraying too much money around. | Continue reading
The mission of MIT Technology Review is to equip its audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is offering an amazing opportunity to increase prosperity, but whether or not we will seize it is our choice. | Continue reading
The Chinese tech giants are dropping major cash to rise to the top in the country’s mobile payment battle. | Continue reading
The search giant released its employee diversity report yesterday, and things haven’t improved much. | Continue reading
Wireless radio signals can be used to monitor a person’s precise movements through a solid wall, thanks to artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
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