Technology
- Scientists find increase in asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying the Moon
- Complex molecules emerge without evolution or design
- Additive manufacturing reflects fundamental metallurgical principles to create materials
- Measuring ability of artificial intelligence to learn is difficult
- Researchers create ‘shortcut’ to terpene biosynthesis in E. coli
- Proteins use a lock and key system to bind to DNA
- ‘Statistics anxiety’ is real, and new research suggests targeted ways to handle it
- Ammonia by phosphorus catalysis
- Breakthrough in ice-repelling materials
- Multimaterial 3D printing used to develop fast response stiffness-tunable soft actuator
Computing
- 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
- Technology innovations: The future of AI and Blockchain
- How emotions underlie even the coldest human calculations
- Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place
- 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
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: AMBIDEX Cable-Driven Robot Arm, and More
- May Mobility’s Self-Driving Shuttles Hit the Streets of Ohio
- Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump Into the Air
- A Choice of Grippers Helps Dual-Arm Robot Pick Up Objects Faster Than Ever
- Airbags Could Protect Humanoid Robots From Catastrophic Falls
- Video Friday: China’s Jueying Quadruped Robot, and More
- ElliQ, A Social Home Robot for Older Adults, Now Available for Pre-Order
- UBTECH Shows Off Massive Upgrades to Walker Humanoid Robot
- How to Dig a Hole With Two Drones and a Parachute
- CES 2019: Advances in AI, Connectivity and Memory Will Power New Products
Mobile
- 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
- The tricks propagandists use to beat science
- Bitcoin and Ethereum Have a Hidden Power Structure, and It’s Just Been Revealed
Top Tech News
- Using bacteria to create a water filter that kills bacteria
- Enhanced NMR reveals chemical structures in a fraction of the time
- Smart microrobots that can adapt to their surroundings
- Classic double-slit experiment in a new light
- Green turtle: The success of the reintroduction program in Cayman Islands
- Scientists discover natural fitness watch in fishes that records their activity levels
- Mangrove patches deserve greater recognition no matter the size
- New ways to harness wasted methane
- Mediterranean freshwater fish species susceptible to climate change
- Plant peptide helps roots to branch out in the right places
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
- 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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- Utah starting $2.5M debt forgiveness program for tech grads - Wichita Eagle
- 5 Secrets to Making Your Streaming Tech Work For You - Montana Standard
- FIRST Tech Challenge encourages teamwork, innovation | News - NRToday.com
- Nike smart shoe is a giant leap forward for wearable tech that could redefine the sneaker - T3
- H-1B visas: The Bay Area’s non-tech employers seek foreign workers, too - The Mercury News
- Georgia Tech downs Georgia, wins Savannah Hockey Classic - WSAV-TV
- When Tech Companies Bow to Foreign Censorship Laws: What's an Investor to Do? - Motley Fool
- A global convention on cyber security? Davos explores tech vulnerabilities - The National
- Seven chief calls for more 'far-reaching' probe into tech giants - The Sydney Morning Herald