Technology
- New method could shed light on workers’ historical radiation exposure
- With a hop, a skip and a jump, high-flying robot leaps through obstacles with ease
- New lidar instruments peer skyward for clues on weather and climate
- Clearing toxins from water, including fracking wastewater
- Cancer: Using 3D to test personalized treatments in five days
- New ultra-fast imaging technology with high frame rate and frame number
- Why are gels elastic?
- Professor rethinks living spaces for refugee camps
- Ultra-thin superlattices from gold nanoparticles for nanophotonics
- Crime fighting just got easier as burglars reveal all
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
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Robotics
- Video Friday: Robot Blows Up a Land Mine
- Watch the HyQReal Robot Pull an Airplane
- New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing
- Ford Self-Driving Vans Will Use Legged Robots to Make Deliveries
- UC Berkeley’s “Hyper-Aggressive Pogo-Stick” Robot Now Works Outdoors
- NVIDIA Brings Robot Simulation Closer to Reality by Making Humans Redundant
- Video Friday: The Army Has a Bigger Robotic Vehicle Than You Do
- Robonaut and Astrobee Will Work Together on Space Station
- Photo Essay: Tornadoes and Frisky Birds Couldn’t Stop These Delivery Drones
- Event Camera Helps Drone Dodge Thrown Objects
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
- Adding a carbon atom transforms 2D semiconducting material
- Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft
- Soil communities threatened by destruction, instability of Amazon forests
- Dead roots double shoreline loss in Gulf
- AI and high-performance computing extend evolution to superconductors
- ‘Neural Lander’ uses AI to land drones smoothly
- Shedding light on the burden of dengue in Bangladesh
- Scientists discover signalling circuit boards inside body’s cells
- Short-term use of opioids increases subjective pleasure: Risk of addiction
- Highly flexible high-energy textile lithium battery to cope with surging demand for wearable electronics
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
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