Machine Learning vs. Climate Change: AI for the Greener Good. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Despite increasing global consensus about the urgency of reducing emissions since the 1980s, they continue to rise relentlessly. W

Will Robots Take Our Jobs? Careful, It's a Trick Question. The robots are coming, and they'll probably take your job when they get here. Oh wait--have you heard that recently? As recently as, say, yesterday? In the news, or from a coworker, or in a sinist

This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 20). ROBOTICS Boston Dynamics' Robots Are Preparing to Leave the Lab--Is the World Ready? James Vincent | The Verge "After decades of kicking machines in parking lots, the company is set to lau

A Layer of 'Aerogel' Could Make Mars Habitable and Even Enable Life to Develop There. Transforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. Its atmosphere is also too thin to protect an

The First Complete Brain Wiring Diagram of Any Species Is Here. For a humble, microscopic worm with only 302 neurons, C. elegans has had a lot of firsts. It was the first multicellular animal to have its whole genome sequenced. It was also the spark that

How Will We Store Three Septillion Bits of Data? Your Metabolome May Have the Answer. Thanks to the cloud, it's hard to imagine that we'll ever run out of data storage. But by 2040, we may be swarmed by three septillion bits of data, and Earth will run ou

How Will We Store Three Septillion Bits of Data? Your Metabolome May Have the Answer. Thanks to the cloud, it's hard to imagine that we'll ever run out of data storage. But by 2040, we may be swarmed by three septillion bits of data, and Earth will run ou

How Tech Can Help Curb Emissions by Planting 500 Billion New Trees. Trees are a low-tech, high-efficiency way to offset much of humankind's negative impact on the climate. What's even better, we have plenty of room for a lot more of them. A new study cond

The Poker-Playing AI That Beat the World's Best Players. Poker is a powerful combination of strategy and intuition, something that's made it the most iconic of card games and devilishly difficult for machines to master. Now an AI built by Facebook and Car

This Chatbot has Over 660 Million Users--and It Wants to Be Their Best Friend. Your New Best Friend? Making a new friend is a complex business. You might begin with small talk: introductions, explorations. Perhaps you bond over something you have in commo