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These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk

7 mins; October 19, 2021

The Government Wants to Bolster Its Tech—Starting With Workers

6 mins; October 18, 2021

Borrowed a School Laptop? Mind Your Open Tabs

8 mins; October 15, 2021

A True Story About Bogus Photos of People Making Fake News

14 mins; October 14, 2021

Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America

15 mins; October 13, 2021

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos

9 mins; October 12, 2021

Bring on the Fist Bumps and Nasal Swabs—Tech Conferences Are Back

4 mins; October 11, 2021

China's Sweeping Cryptocurrency Ban Was Inevitable

7 mins; October 08, 2021

Soon Your Google Searches Can Combine Text and Images

5 mins; October 07, 2021

This Software Aims to Make Your Flight Smoother—and Help the Planet

5 mins; October 06, 2021

Why Tesla Is Designing Chips to Train Its Self-Driving Tech

6 mins; October 05, 2021

These Deepfake Voices Can Help Trans Gamers

8 mins; October 04, 2021

AI Can Write Code Like Humans—Bugs and All

6 mins; October 01, 2021

It’s Time to Talk About Facebook Research

11 mins; September 30, 2021

How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?

8 mins; September 29, 2021

The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is Underway. Silicon Valley Is Watching

6 mins; September 28, 2021

Google Is Getting Caught in the Global Antitrust Net

9 mins; September 27, 2021

A Stanford Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Ignites Debate

5 mins; September 24, 2021

Community Pharmacies Stepped Up During Covid—and Changed for Good

7 mins; September 23, 2021

In the US, the AI Industry Risks Becoming Winner-Take-Most

9 mins; September 22, 2021

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble Is Off to a Rocky Start

10 mins; September 21, 2021

An Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Across the US

7 mins; September 20, 2021

The $150 Million Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

11 mins; September 17, 2021

GM Recalls Every Chevy Bolt Ever Made Over Faulty Batteries

6 mins; September 16, 2021

Gavin Newsom’s Recall Election Divides Silicon Valley’s Elite

6 mins; September 15, 2021

A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible

8 mins; September 14, 2021

Lina Khan’s Theory of the Facebook Antitrust Case Takes Shape

8 mins; September 13, 2021

AI Can Write in English. Now It's Learning Other Languages

9 mins; September 10, 2021

Tesla Promised a Robot. Was It Just a Recruiting Pitch?

6 mins; September 09, 2021

Looking for a New Job in Tech? It’s Your Lucky Day

6 mins; September 08, 2021

The Push for Ad Agencies to Ditch Big Oil Clients

7 mins; September 07, 2021

Apple and Google Are Gearing Up to Fight a New App Store Bill

10 mins; September 06, 2021

Now That Machines Can Learn, Can They Unlearn?

6 mins; September 03, 2021

How an Obscure Green Bay Packers Site Became the Biggest Thing on Facebook

8 mins; September 02, 2021

New Regulation Could Cause a Split in the Crypto Community

7 mins; September 01, 2021

The Feds Are Investigating Tesla Over Autopilot Crashes

6 mins; August 31, 2021

Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches

6 mins; August 30, 2021

What Airbnb’s Summer Boost Reveals About Covid-19 Recovery

5 mins; August 27, 2021

Samsung Has Its Own AI-Designed Chip. Soon, Others Will Too

6 mins; August 26, 2021

This Device Helps Paralyzed People Breathe—and Sing

8 mins; August 25, 2021

Struggling to Recruit, Police Turn to Targeted Ads

6 mins; August 24, 2021

Biden Wants More EVs on Roads. What About Charging Stations?

7 mins; August 23, 2021

John Deere Doubles Down on Silicon Valley and Robots

4 mins; August 20, 2021

If YouTube Algorithms Radicalize Users, Data Doesn’t Show It

6 mins; August 19, 2021

These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race

8 mins; August 18, 2021

Amazon's Massive GDPR Fine Shows the Law's Power—and Limits

9 mins; August 17, 2021

Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up

8 mins; August 16, 2021

China Cracks Down On Its Tech Giants. Sound Familiar?

11 mins; August 13, 2021

The Pandemic Drives Cofounders to Couples Therapy

7 mins; August 12, 2021

Toyota Whiffed on EVs. Now It’s Trying to Slow Their Rise

7 mins; August 11, 2021

Intel's Ambitious Plan to Regain Chipmaking Leadership

6 mins; August 10, 2021

Clubhouse Opens Its Doors. Is Anyone Rushing to Get In?

5 mins; August 09, 2021

Trucks Move Past Cars on the Road to Autonomy

7 mins; August 06, 2021

These Bendy Plastic Chips Fit in Unusual Places

8 mins; August 05, 2021

As the Use of AI Spreads, Congress Looks to Rein It In

8 mins; August 04, 2021

Who’s Winning the War Between Biden and Facebook? Fox News

9 mins; August 03, 2021

The Pentagon Is Bolstering Its AI Systems—by Hacking Itself

7 mins; August 02, 2021

Why Not Use Self-Driving Cars as Supercomputers?

7 mins; July 30, 2021

No, Facebook and Google Are Not Public Utilities

8 mins; July 29, 2021

As Travel Rebounds, Airlines Are Figuring It Out on the Fly

6 mins; July 28, 2021

Why Do Some Crimes Increase When Airbnbs Come to Town?

5 mins; July 27, 2021

The US Needs to Get Back in the Business of Making Chips

6 mins; July 26, 2021

China's Nationalistic ‘Wolf Warriors’ Blast Foes on Twitter

9 mins; July 23, 2021

A New Tool Shows How Google Results Vary Around the World

8 mins; July 22, 2021

GitHub’s Commercial AI Tool Was Built From Open Source Code

11 mins; July 21, 2021

Clubhouse Aimed to Foster Diversity. Is it Working?

11 mins; July 20, 2021

French Spyware Executives Are Indicted for Aiding Torture

5 mins; July 19, 2021

Pet Startups Are Having a Field Day

5 mins; July 16, 2021

Need to Fit Billions of Transistors on a Chip? Let AI Do It

6 mins; July 15, 2021

The Pentagon Scrubs a Cloud Deal and Looks to Add More AI

5 mins; July 14, 2021

This AI Helps Police Monitor Social Media. Does It Go Too Far?

8 mins; July 13, 2021

A Global Smart-City Competition Highlights China’s Rise in AI

6 mins; July 12, 2021

Oregon’s Buckled Roads and Melted Cables Are Warning Signs

5 mins; July 09, 2021

El Salvador’s Race to Be the Bitcoin Capital of the World

12 mins; July 08, 2021

Google Launches a New Medical App—Outside the US

9 mins; July 07, 2021

America’s ‘Smart City’ Didn’t Get Much Smarter

7 mins; July 06, 2021

An Algorithm That Predicts Deadly Infections Is Often Flawed

8 mins; July 05, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz Goes Ham on Crypto with a New $2.2B Fund

5 mins; July 02, 2021

A New Wave of Dating Apps Takes Cues From TikTok and Gen Z

7 mins; July 01, 2021

How Some Americans Are Breaking Out of Political Echo Chambers

10 mins; June 30, 2021

Baltimore May Soon Ban Facial Recognition for Everyone but Cops

6 mins; June 29, 2021

The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible

12 mins; June 28, 2021

Apple and Google’s New AI Wizardry Promises Privacy—at a Cost

7 mins; June 25, 2021

Zillow Taps AI to Improve Its Home Value Estimates

5 mins; June 24, 2021

Transit Agencies Are Trying Everything to Lure You Back

6 mins; June 23, 2021

VC Pledged to 'Do Better' on Diversity. It's Barely Changed

9 mins; June 22, 2021

Covid Brings Automation to the Workplace, Killing Some Jobs

6 mins; June 21, 2021

China's Quiet Ecommerce Giant Thrives on Fresh Produce

8 mins; June 18, 2021

Deepfake Maps Could Really Mess With Your Sense of the World

5 mins; June 17, 2021

Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame

7 mins; June 16, 2021

The All-Seeing Eyes of New York’s 15,000 Surveillance Cameras

4 mins; June 15, 2021

This Arcane Manual Could Pave the Way to More Human-Friendly Cities

8 mins; June 14, 2021

Inside Silicon Valley’s Mayo Marketing Madness

10 mins; June 11, 2021

AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers

5 mins; June 10, 2021

Uber’s Union Deal in the UK Doesn’t Mean Its Battles Are Over

8 mins; June 09, 2021

AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language

6 mins; June 08, 2021

When Driving Is (Partially) Automated, People Drive More

5 mins; June 07, 2021

Meet Your Next Angel Investor. They're 19

8 mins; June 04, 2021

This AI Makes Robert De Niro Perform Lines in Flawless German

6 mins; June 03, 2021

Florida’s New Social Media Law Will Be Laughed Out of Court

5 mins; June 02, 2021

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