Technology
- Smart speaker technology harnessed for hospital medical treatments
- New hybrid closed loop insulin pump proves hard to use for some patients with diabetes
- Radioactive material detected remotely using laser-induced electron avalanche breakdown
- Research elucidates why protons are at the heart of atoms spin
- Plant scraps are the key ingredient in cheap, sustainable jet fuel
- Making solar cells is like buttering bread
- First reputation-based blockchain guarantees security against 51 percent attacks
- Calling time on ‘statistical significance’ in science research
- ‘Terminator’-like liquid metal moves and stretches in 3D space
- What oil leaves behind in 2.5 billion gallons of water every day in US
Computing
- 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
- Quantum computers pose a security threat that we’re still totally unprepared for
- Uber has cracked two classic ’80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory
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
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Robotics
- Bracing Medical AI Systems for Attacks
- Video Friday: Realistic Robot Dog, and More
- Robotic Dreams, Robotic Realities: Why Is It So Hard to Build Profitable Robot Companies?
- A Crowd of Computer Scientists Lined Up for Bill Gates—But it Was Gavin Newsom That Got Them Buzzing
- Robots Will Help Spectators at Tokyo 2020 Olympics
- Untold History of AI: Charles Babbage and the Turk
- Video Friday: MIT’s Origami Magic-Ball Gripper
- Latest Generation of Lionfish-Hunting Robot Can Find and Zap More Fish Than Ever
- Shot to the Gut: “Robotic” Pill Sails Through Human Safety Study
- IHMC Developing New Gymnast-Inspired Humanoid Robot
Mobile
- 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
- A fast-evolving new botnet could take gadgets in your home to the dark side
Top Tech News
- Hydrophobicity and effective acid catalysis
- Breakthrough in air purification with a catalyst that works at room temperature
- How electricity-eating microbes use electrons to fix carbon dioxide
- Tall ice-cliffs may trigger big calving events — and fast sea-level rise
- Energy monitor can find electrical failures before they happen
- Paleontologists report world’s biggest Tyrannosaurus rex
- Developing new organic materials for electronics
- Chemicals induce dipoles to damp plasmons
- Citizen science programs provide valuable data on intermittent rivers in southwestern US
- Scientists argue for more comprehensive studies of Cascade volcanoes
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
- 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
- For Wind Power, Bigger Is Better
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- Michigan will play either Buffalo or Texas Tech. How to watch, stream - Detroit Free Press
- Verizon Set To Offer Free Robocall Blocking App, New Tech To Combat Spam -- AT&T, Comcast Too - Forbes
- Microsoft and Softbank are helping Abu Dhabi find its first big startup - CNN
- Toyota And Suzuki Deepen Ties To Share Models And Tech - InsideEVs
- Riding on 5G tech, Tech Mahindra aims to boost communications revenues - Business Standard
- Tech's $5bn trial of the century: Mike Lynch vs Hewlett Packard and the story so far - The Telegraph
- Tech completes first home outdoor meet | Sports - The Daily Toreador
- Puerto Rico lures tech developers as hurricane season looms - The Denver Post
- Sandy Stash one of 4 finalists for Montana Tech chancellor job - Montana Standard