+ Riki Banerjee, CTO of brain-computer interface company Synchron, will give us an  inside look at the future of minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces that enable humans to use their thoughts to control... Read more »

“The relatively high value of cars, especially of premium brands, also means they can absorb the short-term green premium of greener steel,”  Alex Keynes, cars policy manager at the European Federation for... Read more »

When the generative AI boom started with ChatGPT in late 2022, we were sold a vision of superintelligent AI tools that know everything, can replace the boring bits of work, and supercharge... Read more »

Two years on, those productivity gains mostly haven’t materialized. And we’ve seen something peculiar and slightly unexpected happen: People have started forming relationships with AI systems. We talk to them, say please... Read more »

What’s new: Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play table tennis at the equivalent of amateur-level competitive performance, the company has announced. It claims it’s the first time a robot has... Read more »

The system is far from perfect. Although the table tennis bot was able to beat all beginner-level human opponents it faced and 55% of those playing at amateur level, it lost all... Read more »

There’s another way to make something compact for launch: inflate it in orbit. NASA has already done this—its experimental BEAM habitat, which is connected to the ISS, launched in 2016 and has... Read more »

This is what the activity looked like: “This is basically the brain thinking,” says Rapoport. “You’re seeing the physical manifestation of thought.” In this video, which I’ve converted to a GIF, you... Read more »

A complex multi-cloud deployment can make it difficult for IT teams to perform mission-critical tasks, such as applying security patches, meeting regulatory requirements, managing costs, and accessing data for data analytics. Configuring... Read more »