AI Models Have a Troubling Knack for Discovering Legal Loopholes
AIs on their own found ways to exploit regulations and evade current safeguards.
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Patent Licensing Makes Way for Partnerships in University Tech Transfer
Patent Licensing Makes Way for Partnerships in University Tech Transfer
Patents remain an important way for research-intensive universities to exploit their work, but the commercialisation scene is changing.
Electricity Needed to Mine Bitcoin is More Than Used by 'Entire Countries'
Bitcoin mining - the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm - is a deeply energy intensive process
Sci-Fi Surveillance: Europe's Secretive Push into Biometric Technology
Google Employees Are Free to Speak Up. Except on Antitrust.
A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.
Drone Photo Awards 2020
Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video.
Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is 'Very Likely to Work,' Studies Suggest
A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.
Where Was the Battery at Tesla's Battery Day?
Elon Musk made big promises at Tesla's highly anticipated event. But a prototype never appeared, and it was unclear what the company had actually achieved.
Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates
Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates
Microsoft Excel: 1 - Human Genetics: 0.
World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Project Under Assembly in France
Project aims to show that clean fusion power can be generated at commercial scale
IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM is also advocating for police reform.
Facebook Will Pay $52 Million in Settlement with Moderators Who Developed PTSD on the Job
Facebook Will Pay $52 Million in Settlement with Moderators Who Developed PTSD on the Job
Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000. Selena Scola filed the case in California.
Synchronized Editing: the Future of Collaborative Writing
A growing suite of tools allows teams of researchers to work collectively to edit scientific documents.
A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia
A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia
The two tech titans funded an effort to bring metagenomic sequencing and software to poor countries. Now, it's helping trace the spread of the new coronavirus.
Humans Are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges
From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity -- and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.
Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.
The Only Safe Election Is a Low-Tech Election
The Iowa caucus debacle proved that a 21st-century election requires 19th-century technology.
Facts About George Church's DNA Dating Company
It's called Digid8 and will try to use your genes to make sure you never meet the wrong person.
Why Can't We Agree on What's True Any More?
It's not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the 'real' facts - and now we can't stop fighting about it.
OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2018
The OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2018 is the twelfth edition in a series that biennially reviews key trends in science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in OECD countries and a number of major partner economies.
A Simple and Practical Method for Incorporating Augmented Reality into the Classroom and Laboratory
A Simple and Practical Method for Incorporating Augmented Reality into the Classroom and Laboratory
Manuscript showing how Augmented Reality, which is the projection of virtual information onto a real-world object, can be applied in the classroom and in the laboratory.
ETH Zurich Spin-out Auterion Raises $10M to Disrupt the Drone Industry
How has this Swiss start-up attracted some of the world's top investors? Could Auterion's success be attributed to just 3 success factors?
The Impact of AI on Work: Implications for Individuals, Communities, and Societies
The Impact of AI on Work: Implications for Individuals, Communities, and Societies
The impact of AI technologies on work and working life, and renewed public and policy debates about automation and the future of work.
How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature
As artificially intelligent tools for literature and data exploration evolve, developers seek to automate how hypotheses are generated and validated.
The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
This really gives a new meaning to the "paper of record."
Why Universities Need 'Public Interest Technology' Courses
In an era in which data is everything, the risks to core democratic principles caused by technological illiteracy in policymakers, and policy illiteracy in computer scientists, are staggering.
20 Ways Blockchain May Improve Education
26 ways that digital ledger technology could be deployed by school districts, networks, postsecondary institutions and community-based organizations to improve learning opportunities.
Who Needs Democracy When You Have Data?
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
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