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Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
Airless tires are puncture-proof and more environmentally friendly. And Michelin is aiming to get them on your car by 2024.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
The trial will test whether adding graphene to recycled asphalt can prolong the road’s lifespan.
MIT scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples, demonstrating their critical importance in advancing computing.
In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”
From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.
“Superjobs” – roles that integrate human and machine skills – will require careful consideration.
The holograms use ‘aerohaptics’, which creates feelings of touch with simple jets of air.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
The 72-meter wingspan is lined with solar panels to give the plane the power it needs to stay airborne for nearly three months.
AI tried to write music. It wasn’t exactly The Beatles.
A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.
Cryptocurrency “news” is dominated by enthusiasts and haters. Surely, an intellectual discussion can be had.
One day, this powerful tool could be in millions of smartphones.
A future kitchen appliance could make it possible to 3D-print entirely new recipes and cook them with lasers.
New chip eliminates the need for specific decoding hardware, boosting gaming systems, 5G networks, and more.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.
A new tuna robot leads the way to more agile underwater robots and drones.
NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.
Think of a combination of immersive virtual reality, an online role-playing game, and the internet.
Meet MIT’s Kate Darling, a robot ethicist who says that we should rethink our relationship with robots.
The non-contact technique could someday be used to lift much heavier objects — maybe even humans.
We are likely to see the first humans walk on Mars this decade.