Meet The Chinese Chatbot That’s Quickly Becoming Everyone’s New BFF
She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her, drawn to her knowing sense of humor and listening skills. People often turn to her when they have a broken heart, have lost a job, or have been feeling down. They often tell her, “I love you.”
July 31, 2015 at 11:40AM
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The Town Banning Cell Phones And Wi-Fi To Help Search For Aliens
Green Bank, West Virginia hosts the world’s largest radio telescope to search for aliens. It’s also a sanctuary for people who believe electromagnetic fields are harmful.
July 31, 2015 at 11:22AM
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Is Space About To Experience A Design Renaissance?
Getting human beings off the planet is the hardest design challenge mankind has ever undertaken. Yet it’s also a solved problem: we’ve been sending people into space since 1961. 50 years later and space feels both closer and farther away than ever before.
July 31, 2015 at 10:38AM
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A New Age Of Espionage
Electronic spycraft is getting easier but more controversial. The old-style human sort is getting harder but more useful.
July 31, 2015 at 09:38AM
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Here’s What Inspired Top Minds in Artificial Intelligence to Get Into the Field
Hint: They don’t want to destroy humanity.
July 31, 2015 at 03:33AM
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Drugs Better and Faster
AI could make precision medicine a reality, since it will hopefully one day be able to identify the unique characteristics an individual has that could lead to certain diseases, and how to treat them.
July 30, 2015 at 03:37PM
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How Google Translate Makes Signs Instantly Readable
The Google Translate app now has a function that instantly translates signs and text through your camera. Two Google employees interview the creator of the functionality and discover how it actually works.
July 30, 2015 at 02:35PM
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Obama Wants the US to Build the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order authorizing the creation of new supercomputing research initiative called the National Strategic Computing Initiative, or NSCI. Its goal: pave the for the first exaflop supercomputer — something that’s about 30 times faster than today’s fastest machines.
July 30, 2015 at 12:49PM
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Young Boy Receives The World’s First Bilateral Pediatric Hand Transplants
Zion lost his hands at age 2, and dealt with kidney failure shortly thereafter. Now aged 8, he underwent a groundbreaking 12-hour surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia which required almost 25 hospital workers to complete.
July 30, 2015 at 11:55AM
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This Super Tall, Super Thin Tower Was Built Just To Test Elevators
How do you design a new type of elevator without installing it in an existing building? It’s a chicken/egg question that engineers have long struggled with — even using abandoned mine shafts to test new technology.
July 30, 2015 at 11:40AM
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