Technology
- Mars InSight lander seen in first images from space
- Peeling off slimy biofilms like old stickers
- Tangled magnetic fields power cosmic particle accelerators
- An energy-efficient way to stay warm: Sew high-tech heating patches to your clothes
- How unconventional metals behave, with an eye on high-temperature superconductors
- NASA’s Juno mission halfway to Jupiter science
- Earth’s cobalt deposits formed much later than previously believed
- Deep-learning technique reveals ‘invisible’ objects in the dark
- How plants can generate electricity to power LED light bulbs
- Taming turbulence: Seeking to make complex simulations a breeze
Computing
- Quantum computers pose a security threat that we’re still totally unprepared for
- Uber has cracked two classic ’80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory
- Technology innovations: The future of AI and Blockchain
- How emotions underlie even the coldest human calculations
- Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place
- Meet the winner of robotics’ World Cup
- Machine learning – driven analytics: Key to digital transformation
- Who needs Copernicus if you have machine learning?
- An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube
- Boosting AI’s IQ
Business
- 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
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending February 10, 2018)
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Robotics
- Video Friday: Agile Amphibious Robot, and More
- Foldable Drone Changes Its Shape in Mid-Air
- Choosing Sensors for Medical Applications
- MiniRHex Makes Wiggly-Legged Unstoppability Tiny and Affordable
- Searching for the Perfect Neuron for AI
- Robot Gift Guide 2018
- Video Friday: Space Station’s New Robot Helper, and More
- New Class of Metamaterials Changes Physical Properties in Seconds
- DeepMind Achieves Holy Grail: An AI That Can Master Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help
- Changing the Landscape of the Insurance Market
Mobile
- 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
- A fast-evolving new botnet could take gadgets in your home to the dark side
- The tricks propagandists use to beat science
- Bitcoin and Ethereum Have a Hidden Power Structure, and It’s Just Been Revealed
Top Tech News
- For these critically endangered marine turtles, climate change could be a knockout blow
- Can stem cells help a diseased heart heal itself? Researcher achieves important milestone
- Self-perception and reality seem to line-up when it comes to judging our own personality
- Early physical therapy can reduce risk, amount of long-term opioid use, study finds
- Adhesives for biomedical applications can be detached with light
- Colorado River Delta report provides restoration road map
- Quantum chemical calculations on quantum computers
- Scientists warn of slow progress towards United Nations biodiversity targets
- Protein involved in nematode stress response identified
- A young star caught forming like a planet
BioMedicine
- 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.
- 2017 was the year consumer DNA testing blew up
- A new DNA test will look for 190 diseases in your newborn’s genetic code
Energy
- 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
- For Wind Power, Bigger Is Better
- Tesla’s Model 3 Is a Long Way from Elon Musk’s Grand Goal
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- How Congress could force tech companies to stop exposing your personal data - MarketWatch
- JPMorgan's Chris Willcox on tech hires - Business Insider
- Game Preview: #13 Virginia Tech against Washington - 247Sports
- How Will Tech Companies Make Money From Artificial Intelligence? - Motley Fool
- Array Tech Founder Corio Wins S&P Global Energy “Godfather” Award - CleanTechnica
- Top 5 tech gifts for drivers - CNET
- Winnipeg tech industry grows but faces possible poaching by bigger players, insiders say - CBC.ca
- Struggling Tech 3 KTMs "losing something big" - Motorsport.com - Global Edition
- North Korea's high-tech pursuits: Propaganda or progress? - BBC News
- GoodBox: The tech behind the Mayor of London’s contactless winter homelessness campaign - Evening Standard