Technology
- Water can be very dead, electrically speaking
- Game-changing finding pushes 3D-printing to the molecular limit
- The seed that could bring clean water to millions
- Robot bloodhound tracks odors on the ground
- Using bloodstains at crime scenes to determine age of a suspect or victim
- Electron sandwich doubles thermoelectric performance
- Surgery in space
- Chemical ‘caryatids’ improve the stability of metal-organic frameworks
- Could this material enable autonomous vehicles to come to market sooner?
- Nuclear power shutdowns won’t spike power prices
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
- Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps
- Video Friday: Kuka’s Home Robot, Nao Upgrade, and Bionic Cuttlefish
- Alphabet’s DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision
- AI Drone Learns to Detect Brawls
- Stealthy Startup Aims to Reinvent AI for Manufacturing
- Verity Studios Raises $18M for Safe Swarming Drone Displays
- Video Friday: Curiosity Rover, Giant Crab Robot, and Drone Umbrella
- Can a Robot Be Divine?
- The Importance of Teaching Robots to Hug
- Firefighting Robot Snake Flies on Jets of Water
Mobile
- 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
- Our Best GIFs of 2017
Top Tech News
- Chemists teach an enzyme a new trick, with potential for building new molecules
- Coining less expensive currency: Bringing down the cost of making nickels
- Template to create superatoms could make for better batteries
- Scientists solve the case of the missing subplate, with wide implications for brain science
- How snowshoe hares evolved to stay seasonally camouflaged
- Unprecedented control of polymer grids achieved
- Zebrafish’s near 360 degree UV-vision knocks stripes off Google Street View
- First ancient syphilis genomes decoded
- Not junk: ‘Jumping gene’ is critical for early embryo
- Cross-species prion adaptation depends on prion replication environment
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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- Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power - New York Times
- College World Series: Florida holds off Texas Tech to make bracket final - Los Angeles Times
- Taiwan's Foxconn calls Sino-US trade spat a 'tech war' - Reuters
- Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition tech to law enforcement - The Hill
- In border controversy, US ignores a tech alternative to detention centers - CNET
- We need more women in tech in order to get more women in tech - Recode
- Retail companies trying to catch up to the times are scrambling to buy tech start-ups - CNBC
- Tech companies quietly work with ICE as border crisis persists - NBCNews.com
- In battle for tech workers, downtown office spaces are suburban firms' secret weapon - Chicago Tribune