Search Results

How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.

There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.

Soft skills training can help develop transformation-ready employees and equip entire organizations to adapt to an unpredictable future.

As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.

Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.

More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.

We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.

The holograms use ‘aerohaptics’, which creates feelings of touch with simple jets of air.

It is often assumed that AI will become so advanced that the technology will be able to do anything. In reality, there are limits.

Is college worth it? This question may seem a no-brainer, but there are many reasons why it is worthy of serious deliberation. Here are three.

If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.

Technology usually has more pros than cons, but every benefit still carries some risk.

Shooting star or piece of space dust?

A brief passage from a recent UN report describes what could be the first-known case of an autonomous weapon, powered by artificial intelligence, killing in the battlefield.

The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?

If you ask your maps app to find “restaurants that aren’t McDonald’s,” you won’t like the result.

Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.

This century alone has already had a couple of Onesdays (1/11/11 and 11/11/11).

In theory, scientists could’ve produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn’t happen.

Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the “dataome” for the physical, biological, and human worlds.

All the latest titles from the experts at MIT.

Employees are quitting at record rates – a trend that shows no signs of stopping.

Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?

A future kitchen appliance could make it possible to 3D-print entirely new recipes and cook them with lasers.

Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.

Max Planck Institute scientists crash into a computing wall there seems to be no way around.

A recent study illuminated surprising differences in how men and women seek help when struggling with relationships.

In a world without “bullshit jobs,” we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.

We all know that work-life balance can be difficult, but do we make it harder on ourselves by how we choose to conceptualize the idea? More specifically, is the concept […]

Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.