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Meet the astronaut trainer getting billionaire space tourists ready for liftoff

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 »

Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google’s

It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day. Read more »

Top 5 Challenges of Monitoring Multi-cloud Environments

Today’s enterprises use many different clouds, which makes monitoring and management more difficult than ever.

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Quantum computers pose a security threat that we’re still totally unprepared for

Some US experts think it could take at least 20 years to get quantum-proof encryption widely deployed. Read more »

Your smartphone’s AI algorithms could tell if you are depressed

Smartphones that are used to track our faces and voices could also help lower the barrier to mental-health diagnosis and treatment. Read more »

AI software can dream up an entire digital world from a simple sketch

Creating a lifelike digital scene normally requires skill, creativity, and patience. Now we can just offload the work to an AI algorithm. Read more »

Inside the world of AI that forges beautiful art and terrifying deepfakes

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativity—and controversy. Here’s how they work. Read more »

I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding—including my bouquet

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 »

Making AI algorithms crazy fast using chips powered by light

Optical chips have been tried before—but the rise of deep learning may offer an opportunity to succeed where others have failed. Read more »

Climate change’s highest cost: Overheated employees too miserable to work

The US economy could lose $221 billion annually by 2090, as overheated employees stop working as much or as hard. Read more »