Traveling through deep time to find copper for a clean energy future
More than 100 countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The world is going to need a lot of metal, particularly copper.
NASA is remotely fixing a computer glitch on a giant space telescope. That's just as hard as it sounds
The space agency has finally found what is playing up on its space observatory and is getting ready to fix it.
It's not delivery: Why the First Mile can kill you (and what to do about it)
"Think of your first mile supply chain as the world's most interesting marching band."
FinTech: Why these startups are banking on a payments revolution in the Middle East
Ten startups from seven countries participated in the Techstars accelerator programme this year. They tell ZDNet why the MENA region is ripe for FinTech innovation - and what comes next.
IBM shows quantum computers can solve these problems that classical computers find hard
Big Blue's quantum team has mathematically demonstrated that a quantum algorithm could work better than a classical one for machine-learning classification problems.
Facebook's satellite internet team joins Amazon's Project Kuiper in acquisition deal
Facebook's team of connectivity experts will help Amazon ramp up plans to establish a constellation of 3,236 satellites.
Cloud technology underpinning Boom's speedy development of its supersonic aircrafts
Boom is optimistic that its Overture aircrafts will be flying passengers before the end of the decade.
Should we trust big tech with our health data?
Our medical records are in demand by tech firms who want to use the data to help tackle illnesses.
Apple's Siri is no longer a woman by default, but is this really a win for feminism?
Digital assistants have been defaulted to having female voices because of how developers and coders view women's labour.
Swarm of autonomous tiny drones can localize gas leaks
When there is a gas leak in a large building or at an industrial site, human firefighters currently need to go in with gas sensing instruments. Finding the gas leak may take considerable time, while they are risking their lives. Researchers from TU Delft (the Netherlands), University of Barcelona, and Harvard University have now developed the first swarm of tiny—and hence very safe—drones that can autonomously detect and localize gas sources in cluttered indoor environments.
MIT proposes a robot valet that can safely touch a human
Scientists adapt a form of machine learning, reinforcement learning, that allows a robot arm more extensive movement as long as the impact force on a person is expected not to be harmful.
Businesses plans are changing. Here's what that means for IT spending
Gartner predicts that IT spending is only set to increase as businesses switch from survival to growth mode.
Putting a strain on semiconductors for next-gen chips
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the U.S. and Singapore have created a neural network that can help tweak semiconductor crystals in a controlled fashion to achieve superior properties for electronics. This enables a new direction of development of next-generation chips and solar cells by exploiting a controllable deformation that may change the properties of a material on the fly.
Enabling the 'imagination' of artificial intelligence
A team of researchers at USC is helping AI imagine the unseen, a technique that could also lead to fairer AI, new medicines and increased autonomous vehicle safety.
The rise of the robot expert
There's a new role that is becoming an integral part of many businesses.
Welcome to TechScape: will AI make centaurs of us all?
Up for discussion in the first Guardian tech newsletter: can artificial intelligence enhance rather than replace us … internet age verification … plus Goggle’s €500m French fine
How custom algorithms will shape the future of media buying
The digital advertising industry ingests and processes millions of data signals per second, generating immense volumes of data. While the industry is hyper-focused on the cookie deprecation, the third-party cookie is actually only one marketing input, there are many other data signals, both on and offline, available to optimise media buying.
'Neuroprosthesis' restores words to man with paralysis
Researchers have successfully developed a 'speech neuroprosthesis' that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.