This tech was science fiction 20 years ago. Now it’s reality
Twenty years is an eternity when you're talking about the pace of technological progress. All of these things were considered far-fetched 20 years ago
Emotion-sensing A.I. is here, and it could be in your next job interview
With the help of A.I. voice analysis, it's now possible to discern the emotions that a person feels while they speak. The implications of that are huge.
Insane new anti-drone system zaps UAVs out of the sky with targeted microwaves
Whereas most anti-drone systems in use today rely on radio frequency interference, this new system uses beamformed microwaves to overwhelm approaching UAVs.
Awesome ferrofluid-filled speaker visualizes your music with alien-like goop
What happens when you put magnetic liquid inside a speaker and start playing music? An artist in Korea built his own rig to find out.
World’s Fair 2.0: The mission to resurrect the greatest tech expo of all time
The World's Fair was a technology expo that sparked the world's imagination in a way that no other has. It's time to resurrect it
Evolving, self-replicating robots are here — but don’t worry about an uprising
Self-replicating robots are a staple of apocalyptic science fiction movies, but now the idea has made the jump from fiction to reality.
Meet the Xenobots: Living, biological machines that could revolutionize robotics
Scientists at Tufts University have created a strange new hybrid biological/mechanical organism that's made of living cells, but operates like a robot
Language supermodel: How GPT-3 is quietly ushering in the A.I. revolution
GPT-3 is best known as a text-generating system, but now that it's out in the wild, it's being used for far more than just written words.
This spherical, BB-8 style robot is built to explore lava caves on the moon
Scientists want to explore a cave on the moon to determine if we could build a habitat inside it. How? With a Star Wars-style robot, of course!
The inspection drones are coming. Do not be alarmed
More and more, drones are being employed to survey and inspect areas that are either too difficult or too dangerous for humans to explore themselves.
Exoskeletons with autopilot: A peek at the near future of wearable robotics
You don't consciously think about moving each leg when you walk, so why should you have to do so while piloting a robotic exoskeleton?
Like a wearable guide dog, this backback helps Blind people navigate
We have computers in our pockets and rovers on Mars, yet we still don't have a good alternative to guide dogs and walking sticks. Until now, that is
Freaky new A.I. scans your brain, then generates faces you’ll find attractive
In an amazing and also somewhat unsettling new A.I. project, researchers were able to read brain waves to generate faces that people find especially attractive
Image-recognition A.I. has a big weakness. This could be the solution
Image-recognition A.I. can be duped fairly easily with adversarial images designed specifically to confuse them, but that might not be the case for much longer.
Meet Digit: The ostrich-legged robot that might one day deliver you packages
Digit, the latest and most advanced bipedal robot from Agility Robotics, has made some huge strides (both literally and figuratively) in the past few years
In the hilarious Project Gucciberg, a deepfaked Gucci Mane reads classic novels
Thanks to the magic of artificial intelligence and deepfakes, you can now listen to rapper Gucci Mane reading a variety of classic novels out loud.
The web is full of information trapped in unsearchable audio. Podz has a fix
Between podcasts, radio shows, and video, there are millions of hours of information locked away in audio on the web. This startup has a plan to free it.
