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Artificial Intelligence

Avoiding Ex Machina: How We Can Ensure Our AI Are Safe

The process is daunting, but not as daunting as the consequences of getting this wrong.

Agriculture

The Farming of the Future: Agriculture Drones Take to the Skies

Things are looking up for U.S. farming.

Artificial Intelligence

Hawking: Creating AI Could Be the Biggest Event in the History of Our Civilization

And it's not up to AI to decide.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Create a 5-atom Quantum Computer That Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete

And it answers a computing challenge posed over 20 years ago

Artificial Intelligence

Real-Life RoboCop: Dubai’s Police Force is Getting Android Reinforcements Next Year

"Come quietly or there will be... trouble."

Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Every Tesla Car Will Be Fully Autonomous by 2017

Major upgrades are underway for the latest fleet of Tesla vehicles.

Tesla

Watch Tesla’s Fully Autonomous Car Drive Itself Around Town

It even knows not to park in disabled parking spots!

Drones

The World’s Smallest Drone is Voice Controlled, And it Can Fit in Your Pocket

Don't swat it! It's a drone, not a fly.

From Quarks to Quasars

Largest-Ever Destroyer Just Joined US Navy, and It Could Fire Railguns

It has enough energy to power a small town and operate at the same time.

Evolution

An Amoeba Engulfed a Bacterium to Become Photosynthetic

We don't need Jurassic Park to remind us that life will find a way.

Quantum Physics

For the First Time Ever, Physicists Bridged Quantum Computers on a Single Chip

Thousands of quantum devices can now be implanted onto one substrate.

Mars

Landing on Mars: Schiaparelli, Dust Storms, and Our Quest to Colonize Space

All we are is dust in the (Martian) wind.

Future Society

In 2018, a Massive Undersea Fiber-Optic Cable Will Connect LA to Hong Kong

It will be one of the longest U.S. to Asia undersea cables.

Artificial Intelligence

Dawn of Synthetic Reason: DeepMind Can Learn From Its Own Memory

One step closer to synthetic rationality.

Prosthetics and Devices

Ovaries Could Be the Secret to Slowing Aging In Women

Can young ovaries be the secret to slowing down the effects of aging?

Food

New Soybean Nitrogen Breakthrough Could Change Food Industry

More food, less fertilizer.

Science & Energy

Memories Can Be Inherited, and Scientists May Have Just Figured out How

Our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children's children, and we may be able to turn that on or off.

Off-World

Cloudy With a Chance of Sulfur: Monstrous Cloud Will Collide With the Milky Way

Brace yourself for a collision of cosmic proportions.

Tesla

Accelerating Production: Tesla Partners with Panasonic for PowerWall Systems

Following approval of SolarCity acquisition, they’re set to build solar panels.

Computers

Report: Computers Will Use More Electricity Than We Can Generate By 2040

In 20 years time, we won't have enough electricity to meet our computing needs.