Technology

Is artificial super-intelligence lurking nearby, under wraps? eugenia_loli, CC BYBy Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield The possibility that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) might one day…

Automated cameras make it possible to broadcast sporting events but the choices lack the creativity of a human camera operator or director. The camera just goes back and forth following the ball.…

Don't mobile payments make more sense? US Navy By Ethan Zuckerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Apple’s product launches are covered with breathless enthusiasm usually reserved for royal…

The following is a guest post by David Orban, CEO at Dotsub, faculty and advisor at Singularity University, and trustee of Network Society Research. When I implanted an NFC chip in my left hand about…

A new research effort is focused on nanostructured materials with biocompatible and antibacterial properties. Ana Maria Arizmendi Morquecho, scholar at the Research Center for Advanced Materials…

Cycling for Science #2 - Geology Cycling on tarmac roads in summer is all very well but you can learn a whole lot about geology - and the laws of physics - if you ride off-road.  For example:…

A nationwide project to study the genetic causes of rare developmental disorders has found 12 causative genes that were unidentified before. The Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) nationwide…

By David Glance, University of Western Australia People of the western world have been making resolutions for the new year for over 4,000 years. The Babylonians, along with the Romans who later…

No one in business can figure out what an 'SEO expert' is - in most cases it is simply the person who knows the password to the Facebook account. A new study finds that it may be better to have less…

A European team is working on the world’s first W-band wireless system -  millimeter wave technology for high speed wireless mobile and fixed point Internet - as part of a £2.8 million TWEETHER…