Sci-Fi Movies Are the Secret Weapon That Could Help Silicon Valley Grow Up
by Andrew Maynard: If there’s one line that stands the test of time in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic Jurassic Park…
Ears Grown From Apples? The Promise of Plants for Engineering Human Tissue
by Shelly Fan: Inspiration for game-changing science can seemingly come from anywhere…
IBM’s Watson Is Now Offering Career Coaching To Hourly Employees
by Simone Stolzoff: Hourly work rarely comes with benefits. But the baristas, waiters, and retail workers of the world might soon have access to a benefit formerly reserved for the C-suite…
Using Big Data To Give Patients Control Of Their Own Health
by Shelly Fan: Big data, personalized medicine, artificial intelligence. String these three buzzphrases together, and what do you have?
Humans Are About To Touch The Deepest Corners Of The Ocean For The First Time — An Endeavor As Dangerous As Landing On The Moon
by Hilary Brueck: Victor Vescovo, a Wall Street investor who’s traveled to the world’s seven highest peaks, is now aiming to dive to its lowest caverns, the trenches in the sea floor…
AI Won’t Replace Doctors, It Will Augment Them
by Shelly Fan: The future of medicine is a physician-patient-AI golden triangle, one in which machines augment clinical care and diagnostics—one with the patient at its heart…
Custom-Grown Bones, And Other Wild Advances In Regenerative Medicine
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: The human body has always been an incredible machine, from the grand feats of strength and athleticism it can accomplish down to the fine details of each vein, nerve, and cell…
The Recruiter’s Outlook: Solar Hiring Is Booming
by William Liuzza: I’m still thinking about my Intersolar meetings while I plan our SPI trip, so I’m going to keep this month’s Outlook focused on solar hiring trends…
I Shared The Stage With A Beaker Of Poop In China – Bill Gates
by Bill Gates: It’s not often you stand on a stage next to a sample of human feces…
5 Projects That Show How STEAM Can Shape the Future
by Raya Bidshahri: We tend to compartmentalize our understanding of the world into “subjects…”
Technology Is The How, Not The Why Or What
by Socrates: Technology is the new religion, Silicon Valley is the new chosen land and entrepreneurs are the new chosen people…
An Extremely Large Footprint For An Extremely Large Telescope
by Caleb A. Scharf: A first look at the foundations of a 40-meter-class telescope…
The Massive Project That’s Building A ‘Google Earth For Human Health’
by Shelly Fan: In the medical study Hall of Fame, the Framingham Heart Study takes the throne…
Building A Moral Machine: Who Decides The Ethics Of Self-Driving Cars?
by Thomas Hornigold: You’re driving along the highway when, suddenly, a person darts out across the busy road…
Boston Dynamics’ Four-Legged Robot Can Now Do The Running Man
by James Vincent: Boston Dynamics continues to get the most out if its AdSense dollars with a new YouTube video of its four-legged robot SpotMini…
3 Tips To Regulate Your Social Media Habit
by Karson McGinley: Do you remember life before social media?
Dream About Leaving Earth With These Photos From The Astronomy Photographer Of The Year Awards
by Chris McGonigal: Space looks pretty sweet right about now…
Why We Should Stop Conflating Human And Machine Intelligence
by Richard Gall: It’s common to hear phrases like ‘machine learning’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ and believe that somehow, someone has managed to replicate a human mind inside a computer…
Actors Are Digitally Preserving Themselves To Continue Their Careers Beyond The Grave
by Erin Winick: Improvements in CGI mean neither age nor death need stop some performers from working…
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Shows Off Parkour Skills
by Erico Guizzo: The agile humanoid is learning to use its whole body to leap higher than ever…
Outdated Evolution: Updating Our Governments to Cope with Disruptive Technology
By Steven Parton: What happens when evolution shapes an animal for tribes of 150 primitive individuals living in a chaotic jungle,
Emerging Tech Will Create More Jobs Than It Kills by 2022, World Economic Forum Predicts
by George Dvorsky: The advancement of robotics and artificial intelligence will make 75 million jobs obsolete by the year 2022,
Google Turns 20: How an Internet Search Engine Reshaped The World
By Verge Staff: The biggest moments, product launches, and acquisitions throughout Google’s two-decade history
Yuval Noah Harari On What The Year 2050 Has In Store For Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari: “As the pace of change increases, the very meaning of being human is likely to mutate and physical and cognitive structures will melt”