Volvo Will Add Lidar for ‘Eyes-Off-the-Road’ Self-Driving Cars on Highways . It’s 2020. Why can’t we binge Netflix as our cars drive us down the highway? Well, we’ve made progress, but not at the pace once promised. While some cars offer automated driving

Will Humans Go Extinct? For All the Existential Threats, We’ll Likely Be Here for a Very Long Time . Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, ove

The New Indiana Jones? AI. Here's How It's Overhauling Archaeology . Archaeologists have uncovered scores of long-abandoned settlements along coastal Madagascar that reveal environmental connections to modern-day communities. They have detected the nearly

Biological to Artificial and Back: How a Core AI Algorithm May Work in the Brain . Blame is the main game when it comes to learning. I know that sounds bizarre, but hear me out. Neural circuits of thousands, if not more, neurons control every single one

Biological to Artificial and Back: A Core AI Algorithm May Work in the Brain . Blame is the main game when it comes to learning. I know that sounds bizarre, but hear me out. Neural circuits of thousands, if not more, neurons control every single one of

This 'Once-For-All' Neural Network Could Slash AI’s Carbon Footprint . AI is creeping into everything from smartphones to cars, but tailoring neural networks to each new bit of hardware is expensive and contributes to AI’s rapidly-growing carbon footprint

Don't Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste. Instead, Use It as a Catalyst for Innovation . “I think we need to scale back, or maybe even stop...” Have you been on the receiving end of an email to that effect from a senior leader in your organization in respons

How to Make Sense of the Uncertainty in a Coronavirus World . As the internet churns with information about Covid-19, about the virus that causes the disease, and about what we’re supposed to do to fight it, it can be difficult to see the forest for the t

How to Make Sense of Uncertainty in a Coronavirus World . As the internet churns with information about Covid-19, about the virus that causes the disease, and about what we’re supposed to do to fight it, it can be difficult to see the forest for the trees

The World's Biggest Social Virtual Reality Gathering Is Happening Right Now . It’s one of the most under-appreciated science fiction films of the past decade, but Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (also the most expensive independen