Just 3 days into his internship gig at NASA, a 17-year-old high school student discovered a rare new planet. Wolf Cukier, a student from Scarsdale High School in New York, made the remarkable discovery while examining data from a system 1,300 light-years […]
Long before “fake news” gained popularity in mainstream media, there was DeepFake, media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else’s likeness using artificial neural networks. The idea first surfaced three years ago […]
Rumors are swirling over the weekend about about Samsung’s Neon project ran rampant following leaked videos and a tweet from the project’s lead. According to two reports, Samsung is expected to unveil its futuristic “artificial human” project at the Consumer Electronics […]
The market for AI in drug development and clinical trials is maturing and entering a new phase; total funding in the industry has reached $5.2 billion, according to a new report from Signify Research. However, investments have slowed down in 2019 and […]
In the growing debate about artificial intelligence vs. human intelligence, the question always comes down to: who will win or which is better? At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Alibaba co-founder and executive chairman Jack Ma and Tesla CEO […]
About one in 8 U.S. women (about 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. In 2019, an estimated 268,600 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., […]
Imagine you park your car at parking garage. You went to work and came back to your car only to find out your car won’t start. It was 11 PM at night with no one to help you. Wouldn’t it […]
He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies and two others convicted on charges related to manipulation of embryos to prevent HIV infection, have been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (US$430,000), […]
With more than 5.1 million electric cars on the roads globally, there is increasing need for infrastructure and charging stations to keep these cars moving. However, Volkswagen seems to have the solution. This week, Volkswagen unveiled a new visionary for a mobile […]
For the first time, researchers and scientists from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), have achieved quantum teleportation between two computer chips. The team successfully developed chip-scale devices that are able to harness the […]
Happy holidays everyone! As people of different faiths celebrate the Holiday season, we in the tech community want to use this time to remember Chuck Peddle, one of the most influential engineers and the pioneers of the early personal computers. […]
Scientists think they have found a giant “Dark River” flowing far below the frozen cover of the Greenland ice sheet sprawls nearly 1,000 miles long of bedrock. The discovery was made when a team of researchers and scientists from Hokkaido University in […]
On Friday, we wrote about the successful launch of the Boeing’s first Starliner spacecraft built to fly astronauts. The spacecraft returned to Earth in a predawn landing today Sunday (December 22) touching down in New Mexico after a test flight due […]
Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. (TRI-AD) is planning to first deploy advanced self-driving capabilities in mobility service vehicles, before adding the same features into personal-use cars, Toyota announced Tuesday. Level 4 autonomy offers a vehicle that is fully autonomous, but only in […]
NASA researchers made the first-ever map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of Mars. With data from NASA’s Mars-orbiting MAVEN mission, this new map helps scientists to better understand the workings of the Martian climate. Mars Atmosphere and Volatile […]
With United States and other developed countries struggling to provide needed education funding for their inner-city kids, China is ahead and leveraging technology to educate students in schools. Below is a TicToc video posted on Twitter of how a Chinese teacher […]
Parkinson’s disease is characterized by the loss of specific brain cells that make the chemical dopamine. Without dopamine, nerve cells cannot communicate with muscles and people are left with debilitating motor problems. Aspen is focusing on human pluripotent stem cells, […]
Notal Vision, a Tel-Aviv, Israel-based healthtech startup focused on advancing eye care with precision medicine by extending disease management from the clinic to the home, has raised $25 million in funding to support the commercial growth of the company’s current service, ForeseeHome […]
The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, announced this week it signed a partnership agreement with NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, to help startup founders connect to selected NASA software and technologies while providing a robust global network of startup resources. The accelerator […]
Vedanta Biosciences, a biotech startup developing a class of drugs that work by modulating the human microbiome, today announced it has been awarded a second research grant from CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator), a global non-profit partnership dedicated to […]
