How long before quantum computers can benefit society? That’s Google’s US$5 million question
Google and the XPrize Foundation have launched a competition worth US$5 million (£4 million) to…
We built an AI tool to help set priorities for conservation in Madagascar: what we found
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – models that process large and diverse datasets and make predictions from…
Algorithms that predict crime are watching – and judging us by the cards we’ve been dealt
Your money, postcode, friends and family can make all the difference to how the criminal…
Americans increasingly using ChatGPT, but few trust its 2024 election information
It’s been more than a year since ChatGPT’s public debut set the tech world abuzz.…
Should generative AI programs credit their sources? Many US adults say yes
Overall, 54% of Americans say artificial intelligence programs that generate text and images, like ChatGPT…
How AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
Humans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people can recognize. For instance,…
We went looking for glowing interstellar gas – and stumbled on 49 unknown galaxies
Stars are born from huge clouds of mostly hydrogen gas floating in space. Astronomers like…
Lab tests show THC potency inflated on retail marijuana in Colorado
Cannabis flower sold in Colorado claims to contain much more tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, than it…
Thin, bacteria-coated fibers could lead to self-healing concrete that fills in its own cracks
Some say there are two types of concrete – cracked and on the brink of…
My search for the mysterious missing secretary who shaped chatbot history
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Distinctive Collections archive is quiet while the blizzard blows…