Technology
- Bacteria-coated nanofiber electrodes clean pollutants in wastewater
- It’s kind of a drag: Engineer shows how minimizing fluid friction can make oceangoing vessels more fuel-efficient and reduce harmful emissions
- Cheap, energy-efficient and clean reaction to make chemical feedstock
- Remote sensing technologies key to the future of the oil palm industry
- Predicting eruptions using satellites and math
- Hey Siri, an ancient algorithm may help you grasp metaphors
- Seeing the forest through the trees with a new LiDAR system
- Scientists develop an innovative method for filling, sealing pleural cavities
- Adaptive cyber security decision support to prevent cyber attacks
- Graphene and terahertz waves could lead the way to future communication
Computing
- World’s First Cable-Free Elevator Zooms Horizontally and Vertically Using MagLev Tech
- China’s Central Bank Has Begun Cautiously Testing a Digital Currency
- Ant Financial, China’s Giant of Mobile Payments, Is Rethinking Finance with AI
- Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Exceed Human Performance
- Meet the Most Nimble-Fingered Robot Yet
- He Built the Xbox—Can He Make a Microsoft Product Out of Quantum Computing?
- Curiosity May Be Vital for Truly Smart AI
- An Algorithm Summarizes Lengthy Text Surprisingly Well
- A Sense of Hearing Could Make Cars Safer and More Reliable
- Google’s AI Assistant Can Identify Your Voice, But Will Still Take Orders From Anyone
Business
- Uber’s Other Big Problem: Driverless Cars Aren’t Ready Yet
- AI’s Chip War, Robots Slow to Steal Jobs, and Life Without Amazon—The Download, May 11, 2017
- Neural Networks Face Unexpected Problems in Analyzing Financial Data
- Comey Exit Privacy Erosion, Better Translation AI, and Coffee Shops Without Wi-Fi—The Download, May 10, 2017
- Too Poor For Privacy, Climate Pact Catastrophe, and Everything as a Touchpad—The Download, May 9, 2017
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending May 6, 2017)
- Factory Robot Hacks, Electric Medication, and Laws Against Encryption—The Download, May 4, 2017
- Flying Taxi Hype, Rat Head Transplant, and Losing to AI—The Download, April 28, 2017
- Facebook’s Human Problem, Artificial Wombs, and AI Script Writers—The Download, April 26, 2017
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending April 22, 2017)
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Robotics
- How a College Kid Made His Honda Civic Self-Driving for $700
- AI Software Writes, and Rewrites, Its Own Code
- This Robot Will Carry Your Stuff and Follow You Around
- New Robotic Fabricator Could Change the Way Buildings Are Constructed
- In 2017, China is Doubling Down on AI
- Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence
- Why Some Autonomous Cars Are Going to Avoid the Internet
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending January 7, 2017)
- Alexa May Have Won CES, But It Still Has a Fight Ahead
- AI Begins to Understand the 3-D World
Mobile
- Facebook Is Enlisting Human Experts and AI to Fight Terrorism
- Wait, Why Does Trump Want to Change America’s Air Traffic Control System?
- The Quest for a Functional New Interface for the Smartphone
- Virtual Reality’s Missing Element: Other People
- Theresa May Wants to End “Safe Spaces” for Terrorists on the Internet. What Does That Even Mean?
- Apple Is Countering Amazon and Google with a Siri-Enabled Speaker
- Google Now Tracks Your Credit Card Purchases and Connects Them to Its Online Profile of You
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending May 20, 2017)
- A “Bug Fix” That Could Unlock the Web for Millions Around the World
- Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation into Giant Dark Matter Detector
Top Tech News
- NASA keeps a close eye on tiny stowaways
- Scientists identify cause, possible treatment for life-threatening gut condition
- Nanostructures taste the rainbow
- What’s on your skin? Archaea, that’s what
- Super-strong metal made for next tech frontier
- Biofuel from waste: Zeolite catalysts pave the road to decentralized chemical processes
- More summer sunshine leading to increased Greenland ice melt
- Can antipoverty programs work globally?
- Potentially lethal parasite rat lungworm found throughout Florida
- The value of nature
BioMedicine
- DNA Testing Reveals the Chance of Bad News in Your Genes
- Global Urban Footprint Revealed in Unprecedented Resolution
- Baby Genome Sequencing for Sale in China
- Gene Editing Companies Hit Back at Paper that Criticized CRISPR
- With Neuralink, Elon Musk Promises Human-to-Human Telepathy. Don’t Believe It.
- When Even Genome Sequencing Doesn’t Give a Diagnosis
- Engineering the Perfect Astronaut
- Sperm Loaded with Drugs Could Target Gynecological Cancers
- This Gadget Has a Real Working Menstrual Cycle on It
- This Gadget Has a Real Working Menstrual Cycle
Energy
- Climate Change Has Made Heat Waves Much More Deadly, Mainly for the Poor
- Europe’s Blustery Weather Boosts Renewables to Record Highs
- The Case for Building Electric Roads
- Here’s Why Trump’s Plan to Save the Coal Industry Is Doomed
- Clean Technology Innovation Is in Decline
- Berkeley Lab Incubator Champions Neglected Energy Entrepreneurs
- Taming the Weather
- While Trump Trumpets Coal, Europe Is Phasing It Out Faster Than Ever
- Water from Desert Skies
- Is There a Better Way to Sequester Carbon Dioxide Hiding in Plain Sight?
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- High-tech dashboards signal big changes for auto parts suppliers - Reuters
- Why tech nerds are worse to date than finance bros - New York Post
- Wall Street stocks surge as banks, tech sectors spark rebound - Reuters
- Saying goodbye to the tech of Pretty Little Liars - The Verge
- A leading Silicon Valley engineer explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education - Quartz
- The 25 Most Innovative Ag-Tech Startups - Forbes
- Israeli women laying the foundation for bigger role in high-tech - CNBC
- Elon Musk is the most cautious CEO in tech, according to IBM's supercomputer - CNBC
- A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree - New York Times
- The worst could be ahead for tech, portfolio manager warns - CNBC