Technology
- A new way to measure nearly nothing
- New material, manufacturing process use sun’s heat for cheaper renewable electricity
- New file type improves genomic data sharing while maintaining participant privacy
- Plant hormone makes space farming a possibility
- School students identify sounds caused by solar storm
- New method to address deep-seated biases in science
- Renewable energy is common ground for Democrats and Republicans
- All in the family: Kin of gravitational wave source discovered
- Public opinion on GMOs might impact similar technologies in stores
- Simple stickers may save lives of patients, athletes and lower medical costs
Computing
- 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
- 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
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: TALOS Humanoid Robot, and More
- Explore the World’s Coolest Robots, All in One Place
- How Political Campaigns Weaponize Social Media Bots
- Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini Can Dance Now
- AI on a MEMS Device Brings Neuromorphic Computing to the Edge
- Eta Compute Debuts Spiking Neural Network Chip for Edge AI
- Video Friday: Boston Dynamics’ Spot Goes to Work, and More
- Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Shows Off Parkour Skills
- Quadrotor Maintains High Speed Flight With Just Three Rotors
- UnicornBot Will Enchant Kids Into Learning STEM and Coding
Mobile
- 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
- Hackers Could Blow Up Factories Using Smartphone Apps
Top Tech News
- Video doorbell firm Ring says its devices slash crime—but the evidence looks flimsy
- Monkeys do not start to resemble their parents before puberty
- Want to know when you’re going to die?
- Working lands play a key role in protecting biodiversity
- Producing defectless metal crystals of unprecedented size
- Pushing the (extra cold) frontiers of superconducting science
- Genetic breakthrough will aid whitebark pine conservation efforts
- 3D printers have ‘fingerprints,’ a discovery that could help trace 3D-printed guns
- Scientists grow functioning human neural networks in 3D from stem cells
- Nanocages in the lab and in the computer: How DNA-based dendrimers transport nanoparticles
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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