Now that we’ve had time to reflect on the daring attack on Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistani compound by Navy SEAL Team 6, it’s been fascinating to hear about all the […]
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So it might not be so good for ratings to be doing a series on a movie that tanked at the box office. But here’s some more on NEVER LET […]
If the first industrial revolution was all about mass manufacturing and machine power replacing manual labor, the First Industrial Evolution will be about the ability to evolve your personal designs […]
This post is a review of The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts by Neal Bascomb. My short recommendation? This book […]
As the pace of technology advances and machines get smarter, should robots be granted legal rights? Some countries are already laying the groundwork.
What if you stayed at a hotel and never saw a soul apart from the other people staying at the establishment. You could stroll in and self check-in at kiosks at the front […]
Virtual robots have “evolved” to cooperate—but only with close relatives. The finding bolsters a long-standing theory about how cooperation has evolved and may resolve a bitter row among biologists.
Our famous novelist Jonathan Franzen gave quite the challenging commencement address at Kenyon. Here’s what he said about technology and eros: Let me toss out the idea that, as our […]
As the pace of technology advances and machines begin to more closely resemble humans, should robots be granted legal rights? Some countries are already laying the groundwork.
A $10 million competition to create a mobile device that can diagnose illnesses could threaten to replace doctors in less than a decade.
There is an interesting discussion going on the in tech scene right now. Jeff Jarvis got the ball rolling by writing a post at Buzzmachine about the Jobless Future we […]
Games, monitors and robots are among the tools being tested to help aging people live in their homes as long as possible, while lowering risks to health and safety.
At what point does a robot become so lifelike that it becomes a human? And vice-versa, at what point does a human with robotic enhancements no longer become a human?
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Some of the founders and leading lights in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science have given a harsh assessment of the lack of progress in A.I. over the last few decades.
Major scientific endeavors like space exploration require decades of planning and funding sources that can weather economic downturns. Will the results of the Google Lunar X Prize competition stand that assumption on its head?
The burgeoning field of regenerative medicine, or tissue engineering, seeks to harness the body’s own healing powers.
A new computational model out of M.I.T. can analyze any type of complex network—biological, social or electronic—and reveal the critical points that can be used to control the entire system.
A robot scientist has made a new biological discovery and many more might be possible if we simplified the language of science, the human scientist who led the development says.
David Brooks has a very thoughtful column on the fact that a lot of soaring health care costs have to do using all means available to keep very sick people […]
Joe Coughlin on Businesses Banking on Boomers (click here to view interview) CBS Sunday Morning aired its annual ‘Money’ show today andincluded a segment on baby boomers – The New […]
Newly unveiled personal robots or drones could allow students from across the globe to actively take part in campus life on any college or university they chose, like remote-controlled avatars.
A tiny chip implant is enabling paralyzed and injured people to move objects by the power of their thoughts—the implications of brain-computer interface reach into the science fiction realm.
GUEST POST BY DANIEL MOORE Next week, the University of Chicago, will open the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library. The library sits as an addition to the Regenstein Library, next […]
There are many reasons for us to visit Mars. A key motivation is that after Earth, it appears the most likely abode for life in our solar system. And there are some political factors.
n nAs New Scientist Tech points out, it will soon be possible to “evolve” colonies of robots that are able to think, act and even pass on their robotic DNA […]
When you consider that the first human genome was completed a decade ago for billions of dollars, D.N.A. sequencing has come a long way, fast. Now robots sequence genes for less.
The doubling of computer processing speed every 18 months, known as Moore’s Law, is just one manifestation of the greater trend that all technological change occurs at an exponential rate.
With his appointment of Chris Cerf as Commissioner of Education, Chris Christie is rebuilding New Jersey public education using sweeping, data-driven methods that have been tested (and sometimes bitterly contested) in New York City and Washington, DC.
Even if the Singularity is bogus, machines very well may be as smart as humans by century’s end. How will we make sure they don’t turn on us? Sometimes you […]
n Interested in getting an early look at the breakthrough technologies of tomorrow? The Planet Green’s Dean of Invention show, featuring legendary inventor Dean Kamen, premieres Friday, October 22: “Dean […]