Scientists Watch An Immune System Fight The Flu In Real Time
To date, biologists have typically had to study the progress of a virus through indirect means, such as studying the antibodies — actually tracking the viruses themselves has been difficult. However,...
View ArticleApple Scoops Up Carnegie Mellon Professor To Boost Siri And Other AI Efforts
Hiring Russ Salakhutdinov could make a big difference for Siri, which has been criticized for evolving relatively little compared to services like Google Assistant.
View ArticleResearchers Build A Better Qubit In Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Qubits, the unit of information used by quantum computers, make use of a phenomenon known as "superposition" wherein they can exist in two separate quantum states simultaneously. Researchers in...
View ArticleScientists Think This Is Where Your Consciousness Lives
Consciousness has traditionally been defined by two criteria: arousal and awareness. Arousal has already been traced to the brainstem, the primitive part of our brains which handles our most basic...
View ArticleNew Battery Tech Lasts For Days, Charges In Seconds
Scientists from the University of Central Florida have created a supercapacitor battery prototype that works like new even after being recharged 30,000 times. The research could yield high-capacity,...
View ArticleWhy Is Johnson & Johnson Getting Into Startups?
When you've run out of ideas, you buy someone else's.
View ArticlePolice Seek Amazon Echo Data In Murder Case
The company declined to do so, but the case raises bigger questions about IoT privacy.
View Article'Blade Runner' Fan Project Recreates A Whole Set In VR
If you're unable to reach the new life that awaits you in the off-world colonies, you can settle for Rick Deckard's stylish bachelor pad.
View ArticleHow Artificial Intelligence Can Be Corrupted To Repress Free Speech
It's easier than you think, even here in America.
View ArticleSome Of Earth's Oxygen Escapes To The Moon Every Month
And it's been going on for more than 2 billion years.
View ArticleYou Can Now Buy A (New, Miniature) NES
Apart from the two-and-a-half foot long cables, almost everything else about the NES Classic Edition is perfect.
View ArticleTesla Model S Breaks Acceleration Record With Ludicrous+ Mode
In a recent Motor Trend test, the Model S P100D hit 0-60 mph in 2.275507139 seconds using a new Easter egg mode called Ludicrous+. No production car has ever cracked 2.3 seconds during the magazine's...
View ArticleGoogle Pixel's Assistant AI Upgraded For Smart Home Control
The AI helper is currently only available on the search giant's smartphones, though.
View ArticleNew Liquid Battery Could Last For Over 10 Years
Modern batteries aren't hampered so much by their capacity as their long-term lifespan — a lithium-ion pack can easily become useless after a few years of heavy use. A newly-developed flow batter may...
View ArticleHow 'NieR' Was Brought Back From The Dead
Taro Yoko, director of "NieR: Automata", leans forward in his chair. "The stories I write really aren't very good at all," he says, through a translator. "They're a big pile of shit." He's joking, I...
View ArticleTesting McDonald's Super-Engineered Milkshake Straw
Between the mechanical challenges that I encountered and the STRAW's sheer lack of availability, it strikes me as far more marketing tool than eating utensil.
View ArticleHow A Joke Tweet Brought 911 To Its Knees
For over 12 hours in late October, 911 lines across the country were ringing so much that they nearly went down. Nobody knew why this was happening, until Phoenix police discovered that 18-year-old...
View ArticleAmazon Dreams Of Putting A Giant Drone Beehive In Your City
Patents don't mean anything right up until the moment that they mean everything, so take it as read that none of this could happen. Amazon has, however, registered a patent for a concept that it's...
View ArticleThe Moon May Be Hiding Lots Of Water Below Its Surface
The discovery has major implications for future missions to the moon.
View ArticleUber Agrees To Limit The Power Of Its Former CEO
Uber has also agreed to go public by 2019.
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