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These paper-airplane drones may one day save your life
Drones make a lot of sense when delivering things in an emergency to areas with unreliable road conditions, especially to places where people can’t go — like regions that are under quarantine and in...
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Give robots 'personhood' status, EU committee argues
The European parliament has urged the drafting of a set of regulations to govern the use and creation of robots and artificial intelligence, including a form of “electronic personhood” to ensure rights...
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These students created their own Overwatch VR rig
A group of high school students in South Korea have created a multi-part rig that lets them play Overwatch in virtual reality. Their console, which resembles somewhat of a Virtuix Omni treadmill,...
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Frontman for pop supergroup The Black Eyed Peas (selling 33MM albums and 58 million singles worldwide), will.i.am is a multi-faceted musician and entertainer. will.i.am’s latest album #willpower has...
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Can IBM's Watson Do It All?
From winning Jeopardy in 2011 to helping write a sad song last year, IBM's Watson cognitive computing platform is all over popular culture. Press releases fly out about Watson producing a movie...
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A robotics expert predicts that kids born in 2017 will never drive a car
Henrik Christensen, director of the University of California San Diego’s Contextual Robotics Institute, has issued a jarring prophecy for the next generation: “My own prediction is that kids born today...
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Artificial intelligence is the future, and Canada must seize it
Jordan Jacobs and Tomi Poutanen are co-founders and co-CEOs of Layer 6 AI. Richard Zemel is a machine learning professor at the University of Toronto. Geoffrey Hinton is a University of Toronto...
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The Threat Donald Trump Doesn't Talk About
Jan 8, 2017 8:00 PM EST Donald Trump tends to present the labor market as a zero-sum game: companies have shifted production to China and other emerging markets. He’s going to bring those jobs home....
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Google's Eric Schmidt: We should embrace machine learning—not fear it
You may never have heard of diabetic retinopathy, but this nasty condition is the fastest-growing cause of blindness in the world. It poses a risk to the 415 million people with diabetes—nearly 5...
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Role of protein engineering techniques in synthetic biology
Proteins are the major biochemical workhorses that carry out multitude of physiological functions in an organism. The astonishing feature of the proteins is their ability to accomplish their specific...
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Johns Hopkins researchers helping in search for elusive cancer-causing genes
When someone gets cancer, many scientists believe, it begins with a mutation in what's called a cancer driver gene. That gene, they believe, causes the cell to replicate rampantly and create a tumor....
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Facebook filed a patent application for self-balancing robots
Facebook wants to patent a self-balancing robot that can switch between having two and three wheels, according to the patent's application document filed with the US Patent & Trademark office says....
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Meet the robonauts: NASA's humanoid robots
Picture this: Astronauts floating in weightlessness sip cups of coffee while staring out the windows of the International Space Station. They're looking at a vaguely human-like figure as it scuttles...
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Robots Will Take Jobs, but Not as Fast as Some Fear, New Report Says
“This is going to take decades,” said James Manyika, a director of the institute and an author of the report. “How automation affects employment will not be decided simply by what is technically...
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Cover Story: Barry Blitt’s “At the Wheel”
“Every so often, you hear stories on the news about a toddler who somehow manages to start the family car and drive the vehicle across town, where the law finally apprehends him—and it’s almost always...
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Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba; AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio to...
Today is an exciting day for the advancement of AI at Microsoft. We have agreed to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based company with one of the world’s most impressive deep learning research labs for...
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Putin’s DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections
The same Putin-state backed actors that stole emails from the DNC and John Podesta are targeting campaigns in France in the run up to critical elections in that country. The spear phish campaigns are...
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