Unfortunately, Democrats are ignoring the one thing that could best help curb carbon emissions. We are familiar with Donald Trump’s stance on climate change: it’s a “con job” perpetrated by the Chinese. His views on energy policy are strongly pro-coal, but also …Continue reading
Oxbotica’s New Autonomous Vehicle Software Learns As It Goes
A spin-out company from the University of Oxford called Oxbotica has developed a new software system for making regular cars into driverless vehicles. The system, called Selenium, can ingest data from visual cameras, laser scanners, or radar systems. It then uses a …Continue reading
U.K. Signs a Deal with Amazon to Test Delivery Drones
Retail giant Amazon has partnered with the British government to test drones for package delivery—a major coup for the company, which is still forbidden from testing certain drone technologies in the U.S. In June, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration released updated rules …Continue reading
The Map of the Human Brain Is Finally Getting More Useful
The human brain is a little bit less of a mystery today, thanks to new maps from neuroscientists at Washington University Medical School. Not only did they identify more brain regions than previous maps, they also made a machine-learning program to re-create …Continue reading
The White House Is Pushing Precision Medicine, but It Won’t Happen for Years
With the right technologies to collect and make sense of biomedical information, we could speed up the pace of discoveries that lead to a new class of tailor-made drugs. That’s the argument behind the White House’s push for “precision medicine” (see “A …Continue reading
No Longer Lost for Words: How Researchers Rediscovered the Mother of All Mother Tongues
Researchers have developed a method that uses sound waves to rediscover the long-lost Proto-Indo-European language, from which most modern languages evolved. No matter whether you speak English or Urdu, Waloon or Waziri, Portuguese or Persian, the roots of your language are the …Continue reading
Gene Therapy Trial Wrenches Families as One Child’s Death Saves Another
An important test of gene therapy in Italy is bringing joy and heartbreak to families afflicted with a rare brain disease by offering affected siblings unequal shots at life. Amy Price, an American from Omaha, Nebraska, says that in 2011 she did …Continue reading
This Is the Robot Maid Elon Musk Is Funding
Inside a secretive AI nonprofit backed by Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley figures, a handful of robots designed to help out in warehouses are gradually learning how to do useful household chores. OpenAI, which was created to do basic AI research, …Continue reading
You Can Get a 3-D-Printed Cast for a Broken Bone
Every year, some six million people in the United States break a bone, and many of these injuries are cloaked with a heavy sheath of fiberglass or plaster while they heal—a treatment that’s been the same for generations. But casts are finally …Continue reading
$32 Billion Buyout of ARM Is a Giant Bet on the Internet of Things
The Japanese telecom and Internet company SoftBank is taking control of technology that powers most of the world’s mobile devices (and increasingly more besides). The Japanese telecom and Internet company SoftBank is gaining control of technology used to run most of the …Continue reading