MIT Technology Review

These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching

IBM thinks quantum supremacy is not the milestone we should care about.

It has fueled prosperity of the last 50 years. But the end is now in sight.

Without design fiction, critical hits like Black Mirror would look very different.

The robot mandala is a faster and — proponents argue, easier — way to create the traditional sand artwork used for Buddhist meditation

Synthetic versions of the deadly virus could help test treatments. But what are the risks when viruses can be synthetized from scratch?

Artificial intelligence won’t be very smart if computers don’t grasp cause and effect. That’s something even humans have trouble with.

The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism.

A lack of government regulation isn’t just bad for consumers. It’s bad for the field, too.

Here’s what we learned from when NASA’s New Horizons probe flew by the most distant object ever visited: Arrokoth

Social media has zipped information and misinformation around the world at unprecedented speeds, fueling panic, racism … and hope

The FBI found Eric Marques by breaking the famed anonymity service Tor, and officials won’t reveal if a vulnerability was used. That has…

Researchers have successfully bypassed the eyes with a brain implant that allows rudimentary vision

Faced with information suppression and untrustworthy news, citizens in China and Hong Kong do their best to chronicle the coronavirus…

Covariant, a Berkeley-based startup, has come out of stealth and thinks its robots are ready for the big time

Business and technology leaders are being asked to spend $100,000 buying in to the service

Creating neural networks that are more transparent can lead us to over-trust them. The solution might be to change how they explain…

What I learned from Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma

The so-called Lazarus group has used elaborate phishing schemes and cutting-edge money-laundering tools to steal money for Kim Jong-un’s…

Reforestation is critical for lots of reasons, but it’s no substitute for cutting emissions