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The new system could soon greatly improve foreign-language interactions.

Researchers advance machine learning to create videos of people from single stills and paintings.

Neuroscience is working to conquer some of the human body’s cruelest conditions: Paralysis, brain disease, and schizophrenia.

Why do all of our virtual assistants have a female voice?

Mega-rich entrepreneurs are taking us where no human being has gone before.

Giving A.I. a role in health care can help both doctors and patients.

The lost practice of face-to-face communication has made the world a more extreme place.

We may be able to detect cancer soon by simply peeing on a stick.

The city council voted in favor of the ban by a margin of 8 to 1.

TV’s shared cultural “now” moments embody the intersection of time and tech.

Radio-frequency signals can be used to track peoples’ movements in their own homes.

Just how much is social media use affecting children?

The relentless sun makes life in the Sahara almost unbearable. But could it also be its greatest resource?

Artificial intelligence is a sophisticated tool in the fight against despression.

If A.I.s are as smart as mice or dogs, do they deserve the same rights?

What can 3D printing do for medicine? The “sky is the limit,” says Northwell Health researcher Dr. Todd Goldstein.

Discover the peril and potential of an automated robotic world.

What do the inventions of the future look like?

A balanced discussion of the realities, the mythologies, and the concerns surrounding cutting-edge brain research.

Upstreamism advocate Rishi Manchanda calls us to understand health not as a “personal responsibility” but a “common good.”

The lives behind a few key inventors.

“Beresheet” is first privately-funded space ship ever to make a lunar touchdown

Why an early Facebook investor is now Facebook’s biggest critic.

Michael Dowling, Northwell Health’s CEO, believes we’re entering the age of smart medicine.

Big tech is making its opening moves into the health care scene, but its focus on tech-savvy millennials may miss the mark.

Have swipes and scrolls replaced deep thinking?

The Bill Gates-backed venture promises to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a rate of under $100 per tonne.

A lot goes into being weightless.

This is how data harvesting really works. You’re not going to like it.

After docking at the International Space Station, the unmanned capsule executed a fiery and carefully choreographed return to Earth.