The company has found the likely cause of its self-driving-car crash in March that killed someone trying to cross the road. | Continue reading
Content creation is hugely expensive for video-game makers. A way to automate some of the process would be hugely valuable, and this could be it. | Continue reading
Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories. | Continue reading
What the hell is an initial coin offering? | Continue reading
The future of home movies is shooting them in 3-D and playing them back in VR. | Continue reading
Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets. But before they can become widespread, carmakers must solve an impossible ethical dilemma of algorithmic morality. | Continue reading
To understand why blockchain matters, look past the wild speculation at what is being built underneath, argue the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency and its newly published follow-up, The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything. | Continue reading
MIT professor Silvio Micali says his new system allows blockchains to operate efficiently at a large scale. | Continue reading
Arnav Kapur’s AlterEgo lets him communicate, switch TV channels, and more by talking silently to himself. | Continue reading
A genome-writing consortium announced today that it intends to revise the genome of human cells in the lab so they resist viruses. | Continue reading
While they were at it, they found the longest straight path you could drive without hitting water. | Continue reading
A huge data set will help train algorithms to spot the nasty programs hiding in our computers. | Continue reading
Data gathered by autonomous cars and shared with insurance companies could be used to keep the vehicles from taking undue risks. | Continue reading
If it were tried on a person, it might mean awakening in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber. | Continue reading
Nvidia has made a fortune selling chips for games and AI. Now it wants to reboot hospitals. | Continue reading
A science fiction story for MIT Technology Review’s blockchain issue. | Continue reading
When Brian Hanley set out to test a gene therapy, he started with himself. | Continue reading
U.K.-based startup Babylon will launch an app later this year that will listen to your symptoms and provide medical advice. Will it help or hinder the health-care system? | Continue reading