Technology
What Google Could Learn from a Fruit Fly
By tapping into life’s algorithms, scientists are finding elegant solutions to some of the hardest problems in computer science.
How to Predict Extreme Weather
Climate science is forging a more perfect union between humans and machines.
Google and IBM Clash Over Milestone Quantum Computing Experiment
Today Google announced that it achieved “quantum supremacy.” Its chief quantum computing rival, IBM, said it hasn’t. The disagreement hinges on what the term really means.
Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready
Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are enabling criminals to target anyone, anywhere, at scale.
Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable Power
John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing lithium-ion batteries, "the hidden workhorses of the mobile era."
Computers and Humans ‘See’ Differently. Does It Matter?
In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up.
The Storytelling Computer
Artificial intelligence needs to think like the mythical trickster.