How Facebook’s Libra Could Kick Off a Digital Currency War . Facebook’s plans to launch a digital currency, Libra, has sent shockwaves through the international finance world and may have sounded the starting gun on a digital currency race. The contestant

AI Can Diagnose Like Doctors. But for Continued Progress, Research Standards Must Improve . Medicine is one of the hottest fields when it comes to applying AI to real-world problems, in particular using deep learning systems to detect disease in medical i

Moore's Law Is Dying. This Brain-Inspired Analogue Chip Is a Glimpse of What's Next . “Dark silicon” sounds like a magical artifact out of a fantasy novel. In reality, it’s one branch of a three-headed beast that foretells the end of advances in computati

How Augmented Reality Will Overhaul Our Most Crucial Industries . Augmented reality (AR) has already exceeded over 2,000 AR apps on over 1.4 billion active iOS devices. Even if on a rudimentary level, the technology is now permeating the consumer products

This Light-based Nervous System Helps Robots 'Feel' . Last night, way past midnight, I stumbled onto my porch blindly grasping for my keys after a hellish day of international travel. Lights were low, I was half-asleep, yet my hand grabbed the keychain, f

Is the US Doing Enough to Maintain Its Leadership in AI? . Governments around the world are pouring money into AI research and developing detailed AI strategies, but the US has been slow to follow suit. That’s leading some to question whether policy maker

New AI Systems Are Here to Personalize Learning . The narratives about automation and its impact on jobs go from urgent to hopeful and everything in between. Regardless where you land, it’s hard to argue against the idea that technologies like AI and ...

Maybe Dangling a Space Elevator Off the Moon Isn't as Ludicrous as It Sounds . When astronaut Chris Hadfield serenaded the Earth with Bowie’s Space Oddity, many of us got cracking with back-of-the-envelope calculations attempting to figure out how much th

Driverless and Electric, or Car-Free? The Cities Cutting Out Cars, and Why . It’s common consensus in the tech industry that the days of cars as we know them—powered by gas, driven by humans, and individually owned by all who want and can afford one—are n

The Technologies Giving Rise to the Spatial Web . How each of us sees the world is about to change dramatically. For all of human history, the experience of looking at the world was roughly the same for everyone. But boundaries between the digital and..