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Robot Review: Making Wonder With Dash and Dot
Teaching younger children how to code and programmable robots go hand in hand. Robots are in themselves fascinating for children (of any age), and the immediacy of seeing lines of code converted into...
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Method to study critical HIV protein
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Summary: Researchers are studying a protein called Nef involved in HIV progression to AIDS with the ultimate goal...
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Watson correctly diagnoses woman after doctors were stumped
After treatment for a woman suffering from leukemia proved ineffective, a team of Japanese doctors turned to IBM’s Watson for help, which was able to successfully determine that she actually suffered...
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Replications, ridicule and a recluse: the controversy over NgAgo gene-editing...
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works. Three months ago, Han Chunyu, a biologist at Hebei...
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Chris Urmson Leaves Google Car Project
Chris Urmson, head of Google's self-driving car project, has announced his departure without saying what he'll do next. “If I can find another project that turns into an obsession and becomes...
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Creating machines that understand language is AI’s next big challenge
Machines that truly understand language would be incredibly useful–but we don’t know how to build them. by Will Knight August 9, 2016 Mel BochnerBabble2011 About halfway through a particularly tense...
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The lab of the future: smaller, flexible, tech-enabled, business focused
A new CBRE report emphasizes the importance of collaboration and standardization in lab design. Laboratories | Lab design has failed to keep pace with scientific advances and the changing needs of...
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ICYMI: Robot tattoo artist and healing coral reefs
Today on In Case You Missed It: Scientists were able to program soft materials to shift their shape on digital command, which is only a precursor to our biggest tech news of this episode: That an...
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David Cuartielles judges robots at Hebocon Spain and Tokyo
Being a dumb and clumsy robot has never been as fun as in the stupid robots competition Hebocon. This competition series is described as “robot contests for the technically ungifted” by its creator...
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Privacy Scandal Haunts Pokemon Go’s CEO
Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android...
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How Today's Jungle of Artificial Intelligence Will Spawn Sentience
0 From time to time, the Singularity Hub editorial team unearths a gem from the archives and wants to share it all over again. It's usually a piece that was popular back then and we think is still...
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A Bose-Einstein Condensate Device Could Make Optical Computing Work
It took 70 years before the existence of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), so-called superatoms, could be proven in the lab. BECs are collections of particles called bosons (such as the photon), that...
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Single-Crystal Graphene Films Grown More Than 100X as Fast as Previously...
The adaptation of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) production of graphene so that it’s compatible with roll-to-roll processing is transforming graphene manufacturing. That effort is being led by...
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Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria
In the back kitchen of Mountain View's newest pizzeria, Marta works tirelessly, spreading marinara sauce on uncooked pies. She doesn’t complain, takes no breaks, and has never needed a sick day. She...
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Beyond CRISPR: A guide to the many other ways to edit a genome
The CRISPR–Cas9 tool enables scientists to alter genomes practically at will. Hailed as dramatically easier, cheaper and more versatile than previous technologies, it has blazed through labs around the...
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The dark side of ethical robots
by Alan Winfield Politics, Law & Society Opinions August 9, 2016 When I was interviewed on the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in 2014, Justin Webb’s final question was, “If you can make an ethical...
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Are Robots the Future of the Tattoo Industry?
This video was just released, of an industrial robot tattooing a person’s leg. It was the joint work of Johan and Pierre from Appropriate Audiences and Autodesk’s Pier9. This isn’t the first attempt at...
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Maker Spotlight: Jillian Ogle
Name: Jillian Ogle Home: San Francisco, California Makerspace: The Batchery (in downtown Berkeley) Day Job: CEO of Let’s Robot Robotics : Art : Live Streaming Jillian Ogle started her career as an...
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The Human Genome Is Having Its Facebook Moment
In June, 4.1 petabytes of cancer data went online on a new platform, run by the University of Chicago, called the Genomic Data Commons. Four petabytes is about sixteen times all the information in the...
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The Cancer Moonshot At A Crossroads: Will The Next President Commit To The...
The clock is ticking towards what could be the end of the popular Cancer Moonshot. On January 20, its two biggest proponents, the President of the United States and the man who has stirred the nation's...
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