Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.
In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess giant Garry Kasparov at his own game,…
Rene Haas is half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED’s photographer first asked him to assume this position. The headlines came to him…
Vivo is preparing to expand its premium X-series with the launch of the Vivo X300s, which is set to debut alongside the Vivo X300 Ultra on March 30. The company has already started teasing both devices, revealing their design and…
You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s impossible for something as frequently discussed as machine learning to be actually, functionally overlooked.
And yet, here we are. Machine learning has seemingly slipped from its rightfully-earned…
San José Mineta International Airport has introduced a new interactive AI-powered humanoid robot designed to assist passengers, marking another step in the integration of artificial intelligence into public infrastructure.
The robot, named…
The four astronauts selected for the Artemis 2 moon mission will be the first to travel there in more than five decades.
The northern gannet, a seabird that lives across the northern Atlantic Ocean, typically builds its nests from seaweed and other aquatic plants. But more recently, its nests have started to include plastic material fished from the ocean. Martin…
Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan—more from seniors than babies—but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease on life, one hot mess at a time.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go…
It’s 16 years since the then government announced its intention to close the Forensic Science Service (FSS) in England and Wales, leading to a litany of reports condemning the consequences of the decision and its impact on criminal justice.
No…
