Artificial Intelligence

AWAKE is boosting electrons faster than ever beforeMaximilien Brice, Julien Ordan/CERN By Leah Crane Surf’s up! Electrons riding a plasma wave can be…

A layer of warm water could spell trouble for Arctic sea icePaul Nicklen/Getty By Andy Coghlan The Arctic is in hot water, literally, following the discovery…

Katona style matchstick problems are the ones where you remove matchsticks in a given configuration of matchsticks to create n unit squares in the end. In the…

How to build a model from Mechanical Turk results Amazon Mechanical Turk will notify you when your results are ready and you will finally have a labelled…

Shaping the SerengetiGary Tognoni / Alamy Stock Photo By Andy Coghlan It’s time to re-think the assumption that Africa’s Serengeti grasslands are pristine…

In intensive care units, where patients come in with a wide range of health conditions, triaging relies heavily on clinical judgment. ICU staff run numerous…

Self-driving cars. Faster MRI scans, interpreted by robotic radiologists. Mind reading and x-ray vision. Artificial intelligence promises to permanently…

Cancers, antibiotic resistance and bedbugs all spread because they keep evolving, outsmarting our efforts to fight them. But now we could stop them in…

Everytime I attend a discussion panel like this I relearn just how unsuitable they are to discussion. This one had 14 panelists plus a moderator and actually…

Cloudian, a company that specializes in helping businesses store petabytes of data, today announced that it has raised a $94 million Series E funding round.…

Artificial intelligence is fast evolving to the point where anyone with the skills now, has access to the tools and platforms needed to make it happen. But…

​ AI Nebula AI (NBAI) – a decentralized platform that provides its network as a platform for deploying decentralized applications, as well as for leasing…

By New Scientist staff Renowned bongo-playing, Nobel-prize-winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman would have been 100 this year. But what he described…

Navigating roads less traveled in self-driving cars is a difficult task. One reason is that there aren’t many places where self-driving cars can actually…

Microsoft today announced a couple of AI-centric updates for OneDrive and SharePoint users with an Office 365 subscription that bring more of the company’s…

A positive mindset isn’t just mental – it can trigger physical changes making you fitter, slimmer, more energetic and less stressed. It will even help you…

Signs Genoa’s Morandi motorway bridge needed repair were ignored or missed, but its initial structure didn’t have enough built-in fail-safes anyway…

A growing body of research has demonstrated that algorithms and other types of software can be discriminatory, yet the vague nature of these tools makes it…

Scientists find that the whiskers of harbor seals help them distinguish predator from prey — even from a distance. Douglas Klug/Images hide caption…

For anyone deeply allergic to Medium or has used their free articles for the month and can’t circumvent the paywall (cough, incognito), here are the images…

Read Neurology and psychiatry come together in The Disordered Mind: What unusual brains tell us about ourselves (Little, Brown), a masterful summary of the…

Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease, are the basis of much modern biomedical…

Last week, humanity struck back against the machines — sort of. Actually, we beat them at a video game. In a best-of-three match, two teams of pro gamers…

More accounts banned from FacebookREUTERS/Regis Duvignau By New Scientist staff and Press Association Facebook has identified and banned more accounts engaged…

Google Cloud’s Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text APIs are getting a bunch of updates today that introduce support for more languages, make it easier to hear…