Hi Tech & Innovation
For the many superheroes that use high-powered gadgets to save the day, there's an equal number of villains who use technology nefariously. From robots that plug into human brains for fuel in The Matrix to the memory-warping ...
Sep 23, 2019
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Robotics
In late summer, just as the leaves were starting to crisp and curl in the heat, Devin Carroll walked out of his apartment, looked on the ground, and picked up a couple of sticks that he thought might work for his robot. About ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Business
New technologies like the rapidly advancing deep learning models have led to increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) models. With promises ranging from autonomous vehicles—land, air, and seafaring—to highly ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Business
COVID-19 and the lockdown of cities have severely impacted transit systems around the world. With people working and studying from home, demand for transit has plunged to unprecedented levels. In pandemic times, transit systems ...
May 21, 2020
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Business
Budding entrepreneurs with a business idea inevitably face the problem of finding financing. With the advent of crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter or Indiegogo—where the entrepreneur appeals to the masses to support ...
Aug 27, 2019
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Internet
Content moderation is a delicate balancing act for social media platforms trying to grow their user base. Larger platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, which make most of their profits from advertising, can't afford to lose ...
Feb 3, 2022
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Engineering
When you're an expert in medical CT imaging, two things are bound to happen, says Peter Noël, Ph.D., associate professor of Radiology and director of CT Research at the Perelman School of Medicine. One: You develop an insatiable ...
Jul 3, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Machine-generated text has been fooling humans for the last four years. Since the release of GPT-2 in 2019, large language model (LLM) tools have gotten progressively better at crafting stories, news articles, student essays ...
Aug 13, 2024
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Business
Imagine a hairdryer running on high, continuously, for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The energy it drains—about 40 kilowatts per hour—equals what one extremely powerful specialized computer uses to mine cryptocurrency. ...
Oct 1, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
After the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial decision in June 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate an almost 50-year federal right to abortion, data privacy advocates are sounding the alarm about the potential dangers ...
Aug 10, 2022
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