This Is What an AI Said When Asked to Predict the Year Ahead . “What’s past is prologue.” So says the famed quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, alleging that we can look to what has already happened as an indication of what will happen next. This idea

How Advertising Will Get Way More Personal—and Then Vanish Completely . Today, less than two decades after the arrival of the internet, Google and Facebook together command more advertising dollars than all print media on the planet. In 2017, Google’s a

Neuromodulation Is the Secret Sauce for This Adaptive, Fast-Learning AI . As obstinate and frustrating as we are sometimes, humans in general are pretty flexible when it comes to learning—especially compared to AI. Our ability to adapt is deeply rooted

The Company That Wants to Fling Rockets Into Space With a Giant Centrifuge . The rapidly falling cost of getting into orbit has spurred a boom in the space industry as a host of new applications become economical. Now a secretive startup plans to slash th

The Company That Wants to Fling Rockets Into Space With a Giant Centrifuge . The rapidly falling cost of getting into orbit has spurred a boom in the space industry as a host of new applications become economical. Now a secretive startup plans to slash th

The Company That Wants to Fling Rockets Into Space With a Giant Centrifuge . The rapidly falling cost of getting into orbit has spurred a boom in the space industry as a host of new applications become economical. Now a secretive startup plans to slash th

Blind Woman Sees With New Implant, Plays Video Game Sent Straight to Her Brain . It’s been over a decade since artificial retinas first began helping the blind see. But for many people, whose blindness originates beyond the retina, the technology falls sh

The Weirdest, Wildest Ways We’re Using Drones—and What’s Ahead . Drones haven’t made too many headlines over the past few months, but they came back with a vengeance this week and last, with all sorts of new uses being reported. Some have the potential to

Work in the Age of Web 3.0 . What is the future of work? Is our future one of ‘technological socialism’ (where technology is taking care of our needs)? Or will tomorrow’s workplace be completely virtualized, allowing us to hang ou...

How AI Helped Predict the Coronavirus Outbreak Before It Happened . Coronavirus has been all over the news for the last couple weeks. A dedicated hospital sprang up in just eight days, the stock market took a hit, Chinese New Year celebrations were spoile