Synthetic data for AI
Last year, researchers at Data Science Nigeria noted that engineers looking to train computer-vision algorithms…
Proof of stake
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin use huge amounts of electricity. In 2021, the Bitcoin network consumed…
Long-lasting grid battery
For a few seconds on a sunny afternoon last April, renewables broke a record for…
AI for protein folding
By the end of 2020, DeepMind, the UK-based artificial-intelligence lab, had already produced many impressive…
The end of passwords
In the early 1960s, MIT professor Fernando Corbató was developing a new kind of shared…
From the archives: How we covered fusion power
January 1972 From “The Quest for Fusion Power”: In the case of fusion power, the…
The US is unmasking Russian hackers faster than ever
Just 48 hours after banks and government websites crashed in Ukraine under the weight of…
True innovation requires big tech, academia and government to work together
For the entirety of my adult life, I have been intricately involved in researching the…
Online “auctions” of women are just the latest attacks on Muslims in India
Qurat-Ul-Ain Rehbar, a journalist based in Indian-administered Kashmir, was traveling when a friend called to…