As of late, T.G.I. Friday’s — that American stalwart of strip malls and airports — has a surprisingly modern engine behind it: artificial intelligence.…
Data science jobs are among the most coveted careers in America, taking the no. 1 spot on Glassdoor’s Best Jobs in America list for the past three years, and…
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) has announced the appointment of two new associate department heads, and the creation of …
Should scholars serve the truth, even at the cost of social harmony? Should you expose a fiction even if that fiction sustains the social order? In writing my…
This article was written by Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber for Scientific American magazine.
“As a boy, I wanted to maximize my impact on the world, so I decided I…
Sci-fi loves to depict military AIs as malign killer minds or robots. But the truth is more subtle and more terrifying – and it’s happening right now By…
Through the new application of AI, the GEOMAR (Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel ) research team have developed new workflow for image analysis. This…
To those with long memories, the hype surrounding artificial intelligence is becoming ever more reminiscent of the dot-com boom. Billions of dollars are being …
This article was originally published on ZDNet. Nvidia launched a hyperscale data center platform that combines the Tesla T4 GPU, TensorRT software and the…
Is it safe?Kridtanat Boonyasthian / EyeEm
By Andy Coghlan
Many plastic bottles are sold as “BPA-free” – meaning they don’t contain bisphenol A, an ingredient…
Don’t throw away your Stephen King collection just yet. But the Master of the Macabre might want to keep an eye out behind him, because scientists have just…
Many industry experts have made predictions about the future of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and automation in the workplace—but little…
Way back in 1992, NASA administrator Daniel Goldin described the organization as “pale, male and stale”, a derisive commentary on the lack of race, gender…
3-D printing has come a long way since the first rapid prototyping patent was rejected in 1980. The technology has evolved from basic designs to a wide range…
We’re finally starting to understand which foods are causing tummy troubles for so many, and the culprits challenge everything we thought we knew about…
Artificial intelligence is being used to decipher graffiti dating back centuries in Ukraine, according to a new study. Published on the pre-print server arXiv,…
Young and vulnerableJordi Chias/Naturepl.com
By Andy Coghlan
Put it down to a combination of inexperience, mistaking plastic for food, or maybe swimming where…
We often hear about the eventual robot uprising, especially when it comes to the advances being made in artificial intelligence. Bright minds like Tesla…
The LHCb detector, deep below GenevaM. Brice, J. Ordan/CERN
By New Scientist staff
Ten years ago today, the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider buried underneath…
Mesh implants have injured thousands of women. Surgeon Sohier Elneil explains how the crisis happened and why women turned to her for treatment “This is…
The European Union’s executive body is doubling down on its push for platforms to pre-filter the Internet, publishing a proposal today for all websites to…