Intelligent digital assistants comb through big data to discover an obscure insight, triggering real-time rerouting of the supply chain and capitalizing on…
Researchers at the Allen Institute for Cell Science in Seattle used artificial intelligence to study and learn from images of tens of thousands of cells.…
An integration between Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana is now in public preview, according to a Wednesday blog post from Microsoft. The collaboration…
They claim inaction on climate change has blighted their future – just one of many challenges now hitting the courts. And they might just succeed Some of…
Recently I raised the question as to whether Google was ever going to make the leap from cloud pretender to cloud contender. One of the areas I felt it was…
Everything that we have achieved is driven by set of rules. The driving agents can be different, some weigh values over power, conscience over greed, but we…
Fog nets like this could be improve by using a new material made from nanofibresREUTERS/Mariana Bazo
By Frank Swain
A nanofibre cloth could help drought-hit…
Artificial intelligence has a new challenge: Whether and how to alert people who may not know they’re talking to a robot. On Tuesday, Google showed off a…
The use of fully autonomous weapons in a theater of war would breach international law, campaigners and experts say, as longstanding calls for a ban on…
By New Scientist staff We know it when we feel it, but what exactly is happiness? That’s the question neuroscientist Dean Burnett will be tackling at New…