The coming rise in private spaceflight is prompting growth in space companies that give citizen astronauts the know-how they need to fly. Read more »
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Today’s enterprises use many different clouds, which makes monitoring and management more difficult than ever.
Some US experts think it could take at least 20 years to get quantum-proof encryption widely deployed. Read more »
Smartphones that are used to track our faces and voices could also help lower the barrier to mental-health diagnosis and treatment. Read more »
Creating a lifelike digital scene normally requires skill, creativity, and patience. Now we can just offload the work to an AI algorithm. Read more »
Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativity—and controversy. Here’s how they work. Read more »
The maker community helped me create everything from my bouquet to my cake toppers—and gave me an insight into the technology’s possibilities. Read more »
Optical chips have been tried before—but the rise of deep learning may offer an opportunity to succeed where others have failed. Read more »
The US economy could lose $221 billion annually by 2090, as overheated employees stop working as much or as hard. Read more »