The era of driverless cars is dawning. But are we really ready to just let our vehicles take over?
With its abundance of sunshine and adequate wind, Egypt is well suited to embrace green-energy al...
MUNICH — Do machines replace humans? Since the beginning of industrialization 200 years ago, we earthlings have been plagued by this fear. From the early uprisings of the weavers to the 1970s "job ...
Researchers are sending remote-controlled aircraft into residential neighborhoods to figure out j...
The digital behemoths Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon have long sold dreamy ideals. In reality...
-OpEd- PARIS — When Amazon realized that its AI recruiting tool favored men, the company quickly shelved it. Back in 2016, a chatbot released by Microsoft turned into a sex-obsessed neo-Nazi ...
Outside of Naples, researchers have turned land polluted by illegally-dumped chemicals into a liv...
The digital relationship between the Asian neighbors has rapidly evolved over the past decade, an...
Voice messages are unilateral and time-consuming: this is bad communication innovation.
Somewhere in between confusion and wonder is not a bad place to be at all.
LE MONDE Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto Against the omnipotence of "reality-show novels" and costume fiction, a group of young French authors want to reassert ...
The procurement of raw materials and the difficulties in recycling batteries show that electric v...
The Earth also rises ... On Dec. 24, 1968, on the first human orbit of the Moon, astronaut Williams Anders looked out the window of Apollo 8. Reaching for his camera, and its color film, Anders ...
With the help of a talented young engineer, demobilized FARC fighters are using an Archimedes scr...
Patric Fassbender and Marcus Stahl are struggling to keep up with demand for their "Tonieb...
How VR can help patients suffering from eating disorders, phobias and schizophrenia.
BARCELONA — It’s a large, bright open space, in which 80 people work, sitting behind brand new desks. The grey of the carpet is still pristine, the walls too white, impersonal. Except for a large ...
In far southern Argentina, writer Pablo Bizón recalls a chance encounter with a woman who ...
NEW DELHI — In an article in The Atlantic, Patrick Collison and Michael Nielsen express their concerns about the perceived slowdown of scientific progress. With “more scientists, more funding for ...
If cars are supercomputers, why are we not programming them for fewer emissions and speed?
A visionary engineer and his two-person company have a plan to pave the country's roads with ...
Critics worry that by partnering with Palantir, a Silicon Valley company with ties to the CIA, po...
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