Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already re-configuring the world in conspicuous ways. Data drives our global digital ecosystem, and AI technologies re...
AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew Ng, founder of Cours...
The latest industrial robots look like petting zoo versions of the big machines found in many modern factories – small, cute, and you can play with th...
Technological innovations such as mobile devices and biometrics to capture an entire population’s vital events from birth to death are accelerating pr...
Capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks, and even removing it directly from air, might be the only way to avert the most catastrophic effects of cli...
Electric cars could make a huge dent in the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. But they still make a tiny 2 percent of cars on the road today. A big sp...
Brazilian and US scientists have developed a glasses-based biosensor capable of measuring blood glucose levels through a person’s tears, offering a le...
Last year, Facebook began clamping down on ‘inappropriate content‘ by banning discussion around “sexual preference,” “sexual roles,” “breasts,” and “b...
APT41, one of China’s prolific hacking groups has developed a new kind of malware that can steal SMS messages from a cellular network. According to la...
Nov 01
Study: Women and ethnic minorities in data science probably won’t get promoted over white men
Despite a significant growth in the number of women working in the tech industry, female representation has stalled over the last decade. Only 18 perc...