- China’s facial recognition startups can probably pick you out of a crowd
- Facebook’s experimental chatbot is learning to do small talk
- Alphabet and Amazon want to protect you from hackers. That’s a blessing and a curse
- VR is the US Olympic ski team’s secret weapon
- An AI gave a Go champ a head start—and still beat him
- The average American spends 24 hours a week online
- Trump’s solar tariffs shoot US clean energy in the foot
- Facebook admits that the internet can be bad for democracy
- Telegram’s ICO: Give us $2 billion and we’ll solve all of blockchain’s problems
- These 3-D laser images float effortlessly in the air
- Here’s what we could do with the first-ever cloned monkeys
- Want to code? You better start teaching yourself
- The US government wants to speed gene-editing therapies to patients
- Future surgeons could be trained by VR doctors
- An artificial synapse could make brain-on-a-chip hardware a reality
- Here’s the reason we’d never halt a geoengineering project midway through
- A 3-D imaging robot could help construction workers make fewer mistakes
- The UK is doubling down on AI ethics and fake news
- Microsoft is learning how to biologically search for images stored in DNA
- A new Autopilot crash is a reminder: driverless cars aren’t here yet
- America may be getting left behind as an innovator
- Hackers stole $172 billion from people in 2017
- The ICO craze is making cybercriminals rich, too
- Retraining could help most people avoid job loss at the hands of automation