NASA will snatch an asteroid sample with a flying robotic arm next week
If it's successful, the sample will be transported back to Earth by 2023, where it could shed light on the origins of life as we know it.
The latest wild idea for space exploration? Robots made from hunks of ice
Instead of building robots here on Earth and then sending them to distant planets, some say we should build the robots on those planets with found materials
This spherical, BB-8 style robot is built to explore lava caves on the moon
Scientists want to explore a cave on the moon to determine if we could build a habitat inside it. How? With a Star Wars-style robot, of course!
Virgin Galactic’s latest test flight takes it to the edge of space
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has successfully carried out its fourth powered flight in Mojave, California. The flight took the company’s VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane to the edge of space. It was the company's most ambitious test flight yet -- and bodes well for the future.
Blue Origin test fires the engine that could help it land on the moon
Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company Blue Origin has carried out a test firing of its BE-7 engine, the propulsion system which it hopes will help humankind land on the moon for the first time since 1972. Check out a video showing the impressive test firing, which took place this week.
Road ID app lets you keep tabs on your loved ones when they are out running
Road ID is a mobile app which lets friends, family or anyone else you choose track you in real-time on a map when you go running.
Looking for a good read? Here are the best, most eye-opening books about tech
Sometimes it's sensible to put down the gadgets and pick up a good old-fashioned book -- to read about the latest gadgets, of course.
Are fidget toys legitimately good for your brain, or pseudoscientific snake oil?
“Fidget” isn’t a word with the most positive of connotations. But according to a number of studies, it may actually turn out to be beneficial.
Create a 3D model of your home in mere minutes with Canvas app for iOS
Canvas is a new iOS app that lets iPad users easily capture scans of entire rooms in their (or other people’s) homes, complete with accurate measurements.
This music app uses a clever new technique to preserve (and improve) your hearing
TSC Music is a new smartphone music app that detects the worst key frequency of your hearing and stimulates it.
Breast-feeding smart sensor tells parents how much milk their baby is drinking
Being a new parent is tough, but Momsense's acoustic smart sensor -- which tracks how much milk your little one is drinking -- can help make it a tiny bit easier. Here's how it works.
Gotta catch ’em all? Not with Biem, the first app-based STD testing service
Hailed as the “world’s first virtual sexual health practice,” Biem is a mobile app that lets people get tested for STDs from their own home.
The best A.I. movies of all time
There are some great tech documentaries out there, but sometimes you just need a good feature film. But which one to choose for the discerning A.I. fan? Combing through the cinematic archives, we've selected our picks for the A.I.-themed movies you have to see before you go.
The final frontier? Astronauts could recycle their waste into protein paste
Researchers at Penn State have used a research grant from NASA to develop technology for breaking down human waste and transforming it into astronaut food that’s hygienic and safe.
Wing is live in Dallas, poised for drone delivery domination
After successful pilot programs in Australia and Finland, Wing's drone delivery service is now live in Texas -- and preparing for further expansion.
It’s part drone, part plane, and headed to the skies in 2025
The Prosperity 1 is a remotely operated, fully electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that could start ferrying passengers through the sky in 2025
What the heck is machine learning, and why is it everywhere these days?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, ignoring every big tech advance in the past decade, you’ve probably heard of machine learning.
This is the year 2022, according to old sci-fi movies
We watched all the old sci-fi movies that are set in the year 2022. Here's all the wild, crazy, and surprisingly accurate stuff they predicted!
Will Google ever lose its throne as king of search? You.com is betting on it
Dozens of companies have tried to disrupt Google's search dominance, and none have really succeeded -- but You.com thinks it has an approach that could work.
The funny formula: Why machine-generated humor is the holy grail of A.I.
A.I. can beat us at games like chess, Jeopardy!, and even poker -- but it still can't tell a good joke. Here's why humor is such a huge challenge for machines.
Language supermodel: How GPT-3 is quietly ushering in the A.I. revolution
GPT-3 is best known as a text-generating system, but now that it's out in the wild, it's being used for far more than just written words.
The most important personal computers in history, ranked
Forty years ago this week, the iconic IBM PC made its debut. In honor of this game-changing tech anniversary, we ranked the most important PCs of all time
This cockroach-inspired rescue bot could save your life one day
Despite being the size of a cockroach, UC Berkeley's clever new rescue robot could help save humans buried in rubble. Here's a look at how it works.
That turtle is a gun! MIT scientists highlight major flaw in image recognition
Researchers from MIT have 3D printed a turtle that can fool image recognition algorithms into thinking it's a rifle. Here's why that's scary.
After weeks spent watching porn, this neural network can identify adult film stars
Neural nets have brought us self-driving cars, machine translation, and now an AI that identifies porn stars from their pictures.
An artificial synapse on a chip is able to learn autonomously
This artificial synapse on a chip learns just like the human brain and could help make mobile processors better at running neural networks.
A.I. is getting scary good at generating fake humans. Watch this demo
Researchers from Japan have shown off a new artificial intelligence system that is able to create photorealistic, high-res videos of people who don't actually exist outside of a computer. Here's how its Adversarial Generative Network technology works -- and what this advance means.