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During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.
Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in “Elden Ring” and beyond.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.
Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
The futuristic weapon could be ready for the battlefield in 5 years.
The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
From AI to health and the metaverse, this year’s CES promised new tech that will change lives long after the excitement of the latest TV wears off.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke AI — an open-source creative engine — outlines the pros and cons of open-source and closed-source AI tools.
ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s airship startup hits a major milestone.
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
The reported supremacy of generative AI over human brain-power in business ideation depends on how you define “better.”
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
To reap the benefits of AI technologies, businesses must keep humans in the driving seat.