This Tiny Electric Car Is Selling Like Hot Cakes in China . Though far too many sectors of the economy have suffered enormous losses during the coronavirus pandemic, a few are doing alright. One of those is car sales. It’s sort of counter-intuitive—becaus

Digital Technologies Will Help Build Resilient Communities After the Coronavirus Pandemic . Amid the horrific public health and economic fallout from a fast-moving pandemic, a more positive phenomenon is playing out: Covid-19 has provided opportunities to

‘The Social Dilemma’ Will Make You Want to Delete Everything—But Should You? . Is social media ruining the world? Dramatic political polarization. Rising anxiety and depression. An uptick in teen suicide rates. Misinformation that spreads like wildfire.

How a Memory Quirk of the Human Brain Can Galvanize AI . Even as toddlers we’re good at inferences. Take a two-year-old that first learns to recognize a dog and a cat at home, then a horse and a sheep in a petting zoo. The kid will then also be able to te

The World's Space Agencies Are on a Quest to Deflect a (Harmless) Asteroid . People have a bottomless appetite for all things space these days. Some space news is truly mind-blowing, like the first image of a black hole last year or this year’s time lapse

IBM Plans to Have a 1,000-Qubit Quantum Computer by 2023 . The point at which quantum computers transition from expensive science experiments to a technology that could reshape the future always seems about a decade away. But a new technology roadmap from

Airbus Just Unveiled Three New Zero-Emission Concept Aircraft . Air travel has plummeted during the pandemic; not only do a lot of people not feel safe being in airports or on planes, but with everything we used to do being closed or canceled, we don’t re

Want to Decode the Human Brain? There's a New System for That, and It's Pretty Wild . Even for high-tech California, the man strolling around UCLA was a curious sight. His motion capture suit, sensor-embedded gloves, and virtual reality eyewear were alr

What Two Billion People Pay Attention to Is Still in the Hands of a Few Companies . With increasing frequency, I notice sudden silences, like sonic black holes opening around me. There’ll be the white noise of a person puttering about followed by a profou

Microsoft Had a Crazy Idea to Put Servers Under Water—and It Totally Worked . A little over two years ago, a shipping container-sized cylinder bearing Microsoft’s name and logo was lowered onto the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland. Inside we