Technology
- First machine learning method capable of accurate extrapolation
- VERITAS supplies critical piece to neutrino discovery puzzle
- Using coal waste to create sustainable concrete
- Controlling the manufacture of stable aerogels
- Scoping magnetic fields out for prevention
- Different strategy of cycling teams in escape attempts
- Database analysis more reliable than animal testing for toxic chemicals
- Manipulating single atoms with an electron beam
- New chemical compounds make catalysts more efficient
- Physicists uncover why nanomaterial loses superconductivity
Computing
- 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
- A new data trove could teach computers to tell blind people what they need to know
- Geneticists are using laser-powered chips to search through DNA faster
- Forget Viruses or Spyware—Your Biggest Cyberthreat Is Greedy Cryptocurrency Miners
Business
- 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)
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending January 27, 2018)
- The robots patrolling Walmart’s aisles
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Robotics
- Video Friday: World Cup Fever, Tricopters of Doom, and Generation Robot
- Social Home Robots: 35 Years of Progress
- How to Make an Artificial Neural Net With DNA
- Facebook’s DensePose Tech Raises Concerns About Potential Misuse
- Toyota AI Ventures Wants to Fund Your Mobile Manipulation Startup
- Sprawling Wheel Leg Robot Crawls and Climbs
- Video Friday: Roboy, AI Ethics, and Big Clapper
- Popcorn-Driven Robotic Actuators
- Asimo Still Improving Its Hopping and Jogging Skills
- Review: Parrot Anafi Drone
Mobile
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- 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
- Our Best Photographs of 2017
Top Tech News
- Changes in Hudson River may offer insight into how glaciers grew
- Better methods improve measurements of recreational water quality
- 84 highly endangered amur leopards remain in China and Russia
- Growing a dinosaur’s dinner
- Theorists publish highest-precision prediction of muon magnetic anomaly
- Barium ruthenate: A high-yield, easy-to-handle perovskite catalyst for the oxidation of sulfides
- New study reveals Ulsan is exposed to yearlong toxic fine dust
- Synapse-specific plasticity governs the identity of overlapping memory traces
- Teaching robots to be more reliable teammates for soldiers
- Uncertainty may be key in battlefield decision making
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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- Tech startups are helping India's creaky power sector cope with the renewable energy boom - Quartz
- Recognizing senior living tech success - McKnight's Senior Living
- Una Mullally: Dublin may get 'offices' and 'tech' but people make a city - Irish Times
- Austria ramps up push for EU-wide digital tax on Big Tech - Financial Times
- All the tools – and weapons – China can use for global tech dominance - South China Morning Post
- Blockchain and bluster: Why politicians always get tech wrong - ZDNet