Artificial Intelligence

The Download: Ice-melting robots, and genetically modified trees

At long last, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way. It launched on October 14 and is now en route to...

Robot learns how to clean a washbasin

Robots are supposed to do boring or unpleasant jobs for us. However, tedious tasks such as cleaning the bathroom are challenging to automate....

The Download: What Trump’s victory means for the climate

—James Temple Donald Trump’s decisive victory is a stunning setback for the fight against climate change. The Republican president-elect’s return...

Unlocking the future: Azure networking updates on security, reliability, and high availability

Our latest enhancements strengthen core network capabilities for mission-critical applications running in the cloud. In an era defined by the transformative power of AI,...

What’s next for reproductive rights in the US

Two years ago, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a legal decision that protected the right to abortion. Since then,...

How AI is improving long-term care insurance for insurers and customers alike

When people can no longer perform the everyday activities of life without some kind of assistance, the clear priority should be to ensure...

Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch

Modeling a weakly correlated system using DFT is not an exponentially scaling problem, though. This suggests that with more data and computing...

Delivering the next-generation barcode | MIT Technology Review

2D barcodes encode substantially more information than their 1D counterparts. This enables them to link physical objects to a wide array...

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