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Transformative spaces

The Met Warehouse will give faculty in SA+P an environment for teaching and research that matches their professional and creative excellence. And the building itself is a kind of pedagogical tool, as... Read more »

A hundred years of curiosity

His love for learning about the world around him was far too strong to be squashed by the official end of employment, though, and Eisinger kept writing, this time for a popular... Read more »

The power of purpose-built cloud infrastructure

But while moving to the cloud will always deliver significant benefits, the demands of business are fast evolving, requiring organizations from all industries to support a new level of compute power. Today’s... Read more »

The Download: living for longer, and sex in the age of AI

How long can humans live? This is a good time to ask the question. The longevity scene is having a moment, thanks to a combination of scientific advances, public interest, and an... Read more »

This designer creates magic from everyday materials

That mindset was important to Emeco, a US-based furniture company established in the 1940s. When they were struggling to make the foam in their upholstery more sustainable, Tibbits’s team was “really good... Read more »

Ray Kurzweil: Technology will let us fully realize our humanity

What will the next leap look like? One of the first shifts will be in learning. From the ancient Greeks through the Enlightenment, education’s primary goal was to nourish the mind and... Read more »

What will AI mean for economic inequality?

What does this have to do with AI? AI development is concentrated in the aging countries, and thus it will follow the path set by the realities, needs, and incentives in those... Read more »

A skeptic’s guide to humanoid-robot videos

But what really makes it feel like humanoid summer is the videos. Seemingly every month brings a new moody, futuristic video featuring a humanoid staring intensely (or unnervingly) into the camera, jumping... Read more »

Readying business for the age of AI

AI across industries There is no shortage of AI use cases across sectors. Retailers are tailoring shopping experiences to individual preferences by leveraging customer behavior data and advanced machine learning models. Traditional... Read more »

Inside the long quest to advance Chinese writing technology

Some felt these things were connected. Wang Zhao, for one, was a reformer who believed that a simpler way to write spoken Chinese was essential to the survival of the nation. Wang’s... Read more »