Can we find alien technology? That is the ambitious goal of the Galileo Project, launched this week by Harvard astrophysicist Avi…
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Robopets are artificially intelligent machines created to look like an animal (usually a cat or dog, but they can be any animal).…
Military planning is a complicated endeavour, calling upon experts in logistics and infrastructure to predict resource availability and technological advancements.…
It usually takes 10 to 15 years to develop a new drug, and they cost around US$2.6 billion each. Because it’s…
The mobile apps installed on our smartphones are one of the biggest threats to our digital privacy. They are capable of…
We may have walked on the Moon and sent probes across the solar system, but we know very little about…
In collaboration with the United States Navy’s Underwater Archaeology Branch, I taught a computer AI how to recognize shipwrecks on the…
It’s been a momentous month for space-faring billionaires. On July 11, British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson’s Unity “rocket-plane” flew him and…
The world’s most sophisticated commercially available spyware may be being abused, according to an investigation by 17 media organisations in ten countries. Intelligence…
Many governments are increasingly approaching artificial intelligence with an almost religious zeal. By 2018 at least 22 countries around the world, and…