Technology
- Particles pull last drops of oil from well water
- Water use for fracking has risen by up to 770 percent since 2011
- New interactive machine learning tool makes car designs more aerodynamic
- AI model ‘learns’ from patient data to make cancer treatment less toxic
- Machine learning technique reconstructs images passing through a multimode fiber
- For UW physicists, the 2-D form of tungsten ditelluride is full of surprises
- How to protect yeast from damage in biofuel production
- Viewing cancer treatment as a game to find strategies that improve patient outcomes
- Popular encryption software: Researchers help close security hole
- Crowdsourcing algorithms to predict epileptic seizures
Computing
- 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
- This startup hopes to keep barf bags out of self-driving cars
- Microsoft’s neo-Nazi sexbot was a great lesson for makers of AI assistants
- Baidu shows off its instant pocket translator
- AI savants, recognizing bias, and building machines that think like people
- The US military wants AI to dream up weird new helicopters
- China wants to shape the global future of artificial intelligence
- Inside the Chinese lab that plans to rewire the world with AI
Business
- 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
- New Engineering Journal from Annual Reviews
- Haru: An Experimental Social Robot from Honda Research
- Aerial-Biped Is a Quadrotor With Legs That Can Fly-Walk
- Two Startups Use Processing in Flash Memory for AI at the Edge
- Video Friday: Harvard’s Peacock Spider Robot, and More
- Why the Pursuit of a ‘Killer App’ for Home Robots Is Fraught With Peril
- Therapy Robot Teaches Social Skills to Children With Autism
- Anki’s Vector Is a Little AI-Powered Robot Now on Kickstarter for $200
- Explore New Worlds With JPL’s Open Source Rover
- Boston Dynamics Is Getting Ready to Produce Lots of SpotMinis
Mobile
- 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
- Hackers Could Blow Up Factories Using Smartphone Apps
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Top Tech News
- New manufacturing technique could improve common problem in printing technology
- The “neuropolitics” consultants who hack voters’ brains
- Widespread declines in life expectancy across high income countries coincide with rising young adult and midlife mortality in the United States
- Prehistoric mummy reveals ancient Egyptian embalming ‘recipe’ was around for millennia
- Old species learn new tricks…very slowly
- The secret behind cell revival revealed
- Scientists discover chemical which can kill glioblastoma cells
- Frequent fires make droughts harder for young trees, even in wet eastern forests
- Robots will never replace teachers but can boost children’s education
- When viruses infect phytoplankton, it can change the clouds
BioMedicine
- 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
- A Cheap and Easy Blood Test Could Catch Cancer Early
- Gene Therapy Could Make Cancer Care More Unequal, and This Map Shows Why
- An $850,000 Price Tag on Gene Therapy Shouldn’t Freak You Out—Yet
Energy
- 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
- Britain Is Getting Rid of the Internal Combustion Engine
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- 5 Charts That Prove We're Not in Another Tech Bubble - Forbes
- Digging Mongolia: Hunting for fossils with Infiniti and new paleontological tech - CNET
- Serbia turns to tech industry to fight economic stagnation - Reuters
- Saving Lives With Tech Amid Syria's Endless Civil War - WIRED
- 10 things in tech you need to know today - Business Insider
- ASX Details $23B Opportunity Behind Upgrade To Tech Inspired By Bitcoin - Forbes