Technology
- New lens system for brighter, sharper diffraction images
- The first laser radio transmitter
- No assembly required: Researchers automate microrobotic designs
- Minerals in mountain rivers tell the story of landslide activity upstream
- Elemental old-timer makes the universe look like a toddler
- Quality of laser beam shaping can be enhanced at no extra cost
- Polymers to give early warning signs
- Largest collection of coral reef maps ever made
- Atomic beams shoot straighter via cascading silicon peashooters
- Quantum gas turns supersolid
Computing
- 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
- This robot can probably beat you at Jenga—thanks to its understanding of the world
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
Subscribe
Robotics
- Zipline Expands Medical Drone Delivery Service to Ghana
- Paris Firefighters Used This Remote-Controlled Robot to Extinguish the Notre Dame Blaze
- Untold History of AI: How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine
- Video Friday: Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robots Pull a Truck, and More
- Home Robot Control for People With Disabilities
- NASA Launching Astrobee Robots to Space Station Tomorrow
- The Buddy System: Human-Computer Teams
- Inflatable Robots Are Destined for Space, If We Can Control Them
- Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
- Video Friday: Soft Robots, and More
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
- Sex and diet affect protein machineries
- Pole-to-pole study of ocean life identifies nearly 200,000 marine viruses
- New technique uses power anomalies to ID malware in embedded systems
- Left or right handed biomolecules
- Using DNA templates to harness the sun’s energy
- Tracking charge carriers in the molecular crystal at organic pn junction
- Battery research: New breakthroughs in research on super-batteries
- Massive ecological and economic impacts of woody weed invasion in Ethiopia
- Extracting something from nothing: A bright glow from empty space
- Chemical engineers replicate feed, fight and flight responses in catalytic chemical reactions
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
- Stock Market News: Facebook and Microsoft Power Tech Higher - Motley Fool
- Photos from Ruston show damage to La Tech, Hibbett Sports, tree in living room - Knoe.com
- The Humble Stethoscope Gets a High-Tech Makeover - The Wall Street Journal
- Series Notes: Cowgirls Host No. 13 Texas Tech in Pivotal Big 12 Weekend - Oklahoma State Athletics
- Visa Rejections for Tech Workers Spike Under Trump - WIRED
- The smart way for banks to partner with big tech - American Banker
- S&P 500 dips; weak industrials blot out shining tech stocks - Fox Business
- Mozilla's Internet Health Report: discriminatory AI, surveilling smart cities, ad-tech - Boing Boing
- The right way for China to invest in a new hi-tech Africa - South China Morning Post
- Political Cornflakes: Partisan Washington finds a common cause: Reining in big tech - Salt Lake Tribune