- Facebook used AI for an eye-opening trick
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending June 16, 2018)
- A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself
- The SEC says Ethereum’s cryptocurrency isn’t a security
- A giant new retail fulfillment center in China has only four employees
- A few big players may have been behind Bitcoin’s huge surge last year
- Tomorrow’s surgeons are learning by doing in VR
- Some day you may be able to monitor your stomach from your smartphone
- China is creating a huge carbon market—but not a particularly aggressive one
- Three years later, Google still has big-time diversity issues
- Cheap lidar gets a big win in deal with Volvo
- A computer program that learns to “imagine” the world shows how AI can think more like us
- Amazon’s automation goes white collar
- AT&T’s whopping $85 billion bid for Time Warner gets a legal green light
- We can now use AI to see through walls
- Machine learning predicts World Cup winner
- The productivity paradox
- Tencent and Alibaba’s mobile payment war shows how far China is ahead of the US
- EOS’s $4 billion crypto-democracy has just launched—and it’s probably going to be ruled by fat cats
- Apple is closing a loophole that lets police hack into iPhones
- China’s ambition to power the world’s electric cars took a huge leap forward this week
- Tesla’s reorganization will slash thousands of jobs
- Bill Gates’ energy fund is laying its first bets, and they’re on grid storage
- AI could get 100 times more energy-efficient with IBM’s new artificial synapses