Technology
- Collaborative research charts course to hundreds of new nitrides
 - A new force for optical tweezers awakens
 - Vest helps athletes keep their cool
 - Researchers take two steps toward green fuel
 - Immortal quantum particles
 - ‘Hidden’ phases of matter revealed through the power of light
 - Crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its outer disc, new evidence shows
 - Gemini Planet Imager analyzes 300 stars
 - Rare ‘superflares’ could one day threaten Earth
 - Novel de-noising method generates sharper photorealistic images faster
 
Computing
- This chip was demoed at Jeff Bezos’s secretive tech conference. It could be key to the future of AI.
 - Optimizing the engineering life cycle requires digital transformation
 - Who’s going to regulate AI? It might be you.
 - The man who helped invent virtual assistants thinks they’re doomed without a new AI approach
 - The out-there AI ideas designed to keep the US ahead of China
 - Asia’s AI agenda: AI for business
 - Getting smart about the future of AI
 - Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data
 - This is why AI has yet to reshape most businesses
 - DeepMind wants to teach AI how to play a card game that’s harder than Go
 
Business
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending January 26, 2019)
 - How acting as Carrie Fisher’s puppet made a career for Rogue One’s Princess Leia
 - Computational linguistics reveals pervasive gender bias in modern English novels
 - AI could wreak economic havoc—we need more of it
 - Bridging the communications gap between human and machine
 - If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
 - From the factory floor to the OR, robots can make great teammates
 - Orbiting Tesla Roadster has 6 percent chance of hitting Earth in the next million years
 - This heated jacket uses AI, Alexa, and other buzzwords to keep you perfectly snug
 - Kindred AI is using human pilots to do what robots can’t
 
Categories
Robotics
- Dishcraft Robotics Takes Over Dishwashing From Humans
 - Massive 3D Dataset Helps Robots Understand What Things Are
 - How the US Military’s Latest Surveillance Technology Was Inspired by Hollywood
 - Video Friday: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Tries Dexterous Robot Hands
 - T-RHex Is a Hexapod Robot With Microspines on Its Feet
 - Robotic Animal Agility
 - Sensitive Whiskers Could Make Small Drones Safer
 - Jaco Is a Low-Power Robot Arm That Hooks to Your Wheelchair
 - Video Friday: Humanoid Robot Digit Takes a Stroll Downtown
 - This Robot Ostrich Can Ride Around on Hovershoes
 
Mobile
- This is the first ever photo of a black hole
 - Ryugu is a heap of space rubble that might unlock the mysteries of water on Earth
 - The new media’s role in politics
 - It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights
 - How to date someone out of your league
 - Puzzle Corner’s sole editor: Allan Gottlieb ’67, “The Puzzle Guy”
 - Here are some ways to upgrade yourself, one body part at a time
 - Former regulator under Obama says more than 1000 ICOs are not following the law
 - Here’s how hackers could cause chaos in this year’s US midterm election
 - Berkeley, CA is considering an ICO unlike any other
 
Top Tech News
- Cell structure linked to longevity of slow-growing Ponderosa Pines
 - Appearance of deep-sea fish does not signal upcoming earthquake in Japan
 - Cool halo gas caught spinning like galactic disks
 - Quantum music to my ears
 - Wearable device reveals how seals prepare for diving
 - Sea otters have low genetic diversity like other threatened species, biologists report
 - New manufacturing process for aluminum alloys
 - Survivors of breast cancer face increased risk of heart disease
 - Egg-sucking sea slug from Florida’s Cedar Key named after Muppets creator Jim Henson
 - New study shows how environmental disruptions affected ancient societies
 
BioMedicine
- A cell-killing strategy to slow aging passed its first test this year
 - More than 26 million people have taken an at-home ancestry test
 - DNA-based molecular computing will pave the way for programmable pills
 - Anti-aging medicine is so hot even this controversial idea has investors
 - The cartographer of cells
 - Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form?
 - Gene therapy could free some people from a lifetime of blood transfusions
 - A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
 - Farmland gene editors want cows without horns, pigs without tails, and business without regulations
 - Can’t get new lungs? Try refurbished ones instead.
 
Energy
- A powerful new model could make global warming estimates less vague
 - Let’s keep the Green New Deal grounded in science
 - Curbing emissions isn’t enough—we need emergency solutions for climate change
 - The race to invent the artificial leaf
 - The carbon-capture era may finally be starting
 - How nuclear weapons research revealed new climate threats
 - Tax Overhaul Hammers Clean Energy and Electric Cars
 - Trump’s Energy R&D Policies Ignore the Long-Term Impact of Innovation
 - Evaporation Engines Could Produce More Power Than Coal, with a Huge Caveat
 - Potential Carbon Capture Game Changer Nears Completion
 
Google News – Tech
- Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk - MSN
 - Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk - The Wall Street Journal
 - ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ radio play hits Keefe Tech this month - MetroWest Daily News
 - No Breadth, No Problem for Wall Street Obsessed With Big Tech - Bloomberg.com
 - How one tech startup is giving cash to SNAP recipients - Houston Public Media
 - The Modern Day Tech Worker Is Obsolete. Amazon’s CEO Just Told Us Why - Inc.com
 - Jalynn Bristow's newfound confidence on display for Texas Tech women's basketball - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
 - Where is Texas Tech in College Football Playoff projections ahead of first rankings? - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
 - 3 things to know as Texas Tech basketball opens 2025-26 season vs Lindenwood - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
 - Return of Raiderville at Texas Tech? Students camp out ahead of Red Raider football game - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
 






