Most research into the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerns its use for weaponry, transport or profiling. Although the dangers presented by an autonomous,…
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone to learn that the International Space Station (ISS) is packing some pretty…
Vaccine and drug development, artificial intelligence, transport and logistics, climate science — these are all areas that stand to be…
One of the central technologies of artificial intelligence is neural networks. In this interview, Tam Nguyen, a professor of computer science…
The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. One word…
Today, quantum computing is in its infancy. Quantum computation incorporates some of the most mind-bending concepts from 20th-century physics. In the U.S., Google, IBM and NASA are experimenting and building the first quantum computers. China is also investing heavily in quantum technology.
There’s little doubt the information technology revolution has improved our lives. But unless we find a new form of electronic…
A computer’s operating system, the layer of software between you and the hardware, has changed remarkably over the past few…
British scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitzwon this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics “for theoretical discoveries of topological…
CAT scans, MRI, ultrasound. We are all pretty used to having machines – and doctors – peering into our bodies…