Technology
- A new ‘spin’ on kagome lattices
- Molecular insights into spider silk
- Unknown treasure trove of planets found hiding in dust
- Iron-rich lamellae in the semiconductor
- Damning evidence of dam’s impacts on rainforest birds
- 3D-printed glucose biosensors
- A 3D imaging technique unlocks properties of perovskite crystals
- Fighting smog supports solar power
- Agricultural waste: Driving us closer to greener transport?
- Engineers invent groundbreaking spin-based memory device
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: Space Station’s New Robot Helper, and More
- New Class of Metamaterials Changes Physical Properties in Seconds
- DeepMind Achieves Holy Grail: An AI That Can Master Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help
- Changing the Landscape of the Insurance Market
- IHMC Teaches Atlas to Walk Like a Human
- This Plant Is Driving Its Own Robot
- Jibo Is Probably Totally Dead Now
- Video Friday: InSight Mars Lander, and More
- In the Coming Automated Economy, People Will Work for AI
- Occipital Announces Availability of Structure Core 3D Sensor
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
- NASA InSight lander ‘hears’ Martian winds
- NASA’s Mars InSight flexes its arm
- Planetary defense: The Bennu experiment
- Researchers probe hydrogen bonds using new technique
- Magnetic reconnection in space: Experiment and satellite sightings
- The privacy risks of compiling mobility data
- Harnessing the power of ‘spin orbit’ coupling in silicon: Scaling up quantum computation
- Gender bias sways how we perceive competence in faces
- What’s behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk?
- Scientists exchanged quantum information on daylight in a free-space quantum key distribution
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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- New champion for tech entrepreneurship - Gisborne Herald
- 27 projects to share €75m as State bets on 'disruptive' tech - Independent.ie
- Australian regulator says probe of tech giants spurs five investigations - Reuters
- Campaign Tech Awards return with new performance marketing categories - CampaignLive
- Scientists to test tailor-made vaccine tech to fight epidemics - Channel NewsAsia
- Is the Blogger "Mr. Cranky" Out to Save DC's Tech Industry—Or Destroy It? - Washingtonian
- Georgia Tech Surges Past Rattlers, 73-40 – Men's Basketball — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets - Georgia Tech Official Athletic Site
- Virginia Tech warms up in win over South Carolina State - Roanoke Times
- Controversial encryption laws anger tech experts - AM - ABC News
- Georgia Tech’s new football coach vows not to use red ink again - DawgNation