The Download: robotic bees, and China’s surveillance state
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Moving money in a digital world
The rising adoption of digital financial services—mobile banking, online purchasing, and peer-to-peer payments—means that these…
Power beaming comes of age
Power beaming has long been a dream of engineers and innovators. Defined as the point-to-point…
AI and data fuel innovation in clinical trials and beyond
The last five years have seen large innovations throughout drug development and clinical trial life…
I Was There When: AI mastered chess
I Was There When is an oral history project that’s part of the In Machines…
Google’s new AI can hear a snippet of song—and then keep on playing
A new AI system can create natural-sounding speech and music after being prompted with a…
Is a covid and flu “twindemic” on the horizon?
Hello, and welcome back to The Checkup! I’m back home in London after last week’s…
The Download: music-making AI, and Kasparov’s defeat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
DeepMind’s game-playing AI has beaten a 50-year-old record in computer science
DeepMind has used its board-game playing AI AlphaZero to discover a faster way to solve…
The porcelain challenge didn’t need to be real to get views
Despite what you may have heard, the teens are not stealing their family’s fine dinnerware,…