How China’s social rating system can affect you
By 2020, 1.3 billion citizens will be enrolled in a rating system that will rank them by reputation, a system...
Why ratings and reviews are for products, not people
Nosedive, Netflix's Black Mirror third season opener, sure earned a lot of likes. The near-future dystopia depicted in the episode came as...
Why privacy is becoming a collateral of crime fighting
Tech giants like Google and Apple could be helping catch criminals with technologies already built in gadgets we use everyday....
Brainternet: one step closer to mind controlling the internet
A team of South African scientists have managed to hook up a human brain to the internet in real time...
What comes after the IoT? The age of the Tactile Internet
The IoT era has brought us many great things, but it is time to go beyond to improve human presence...
Punks at heart: the tech-savvy reinvention of corporate social responsibility
‘Stick it to the man’ was the take-home message many kids got from growing up adrift in a Napster-fueled, Nirvana-fronted...
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Building trust with AI: the ultimate barrier for human-machine interactions
How can machines prove their trustworthiness to their human counterparts? An important question for AI development, and one that spurs...
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Drones, self-driving cars and bicycles banned for marijuana delivery in California
Several California startups are heartbroken over the state’s recent ban on drones for marijuana delivery. The ban comes amongst many...
Machine learning will be able to predict diseases years before onset of symptoms
In the future, doctors will be able to diagnose your illness before even meeting you. Recent applications of machine learning...
Dream big, think small: how a farm boy made cancer-killing robots real
On August 30th, scientists revealed that they had produced and tested molecule-sized robots that can seek and drill into prostate...
The ongoing campaign against lethal autonomous weapons systems in warfare
Military applications of robotics and AI are on the verge of deployment on the battlefield. Dubbed lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS),...
The triple threat that is killing independent repairs of electronics
As electronic components get smaller, broken smartphones are getting harder to repair. And as manufacturers contemplate ways to seize this...
The PC: a long overdue design revolution
Why are we still using the same basic design as the Apple II computer, released in 1977? Forty years is a...
Scientists help AI dream new worlds, like taking a picture of a subconscious landscape
Chances are your last dream was set in a vaguely familiar place, one you would be unable to locate in...
Are smartphones the future of medicine?
In the future, feeling sick might not necessarily include a medical appointment thanks to the increasing versatility and power of...
