Dyson’s new Pure Cool fans are better at both purifying and...
Dyson has a few new products it’s revealing today, including the latest Pure Cool line of purifying fans....
Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Freight customers
Uber’s autonomous trucks are now doing actual work for customers via Uber Freight, Uber’s commercial cargo shipping on-demand...
For artificial intelligence to thrive, it must explain itself
SCIENCE fiction is littered with examples of intelligent computers, from HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey” to Eddie in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide...
Computer programs recognise white men better than black women
SOFTWARE that recognises faces has bounded ahead in recent years, propelled by a boom in a form of artificial intelligence called deep learning...
Making anaesthesia safer by tracking brain activity
AROUND 1936 three neurologists at Harvard Medical School raided the medicine cabinet, filling their boots with morphine, barbiturates, ethers and even cobra venom....
Finding more time to detect a tsunami
TSUNAMI are terrible things. And part of their terror lies in their unpredictability. Even when a submarine earthquake that may cause one is...
The ramifications of a new type of gene
WHAT’S a gene? You might think biologists had worked that one out by now. But the question is more slippery than may at...
Making quantum computers reliable – Computer science
CALCULATING machines that run on quantum bits (known as qubits, for short) are, by some accounts, the future of computation. Quantum computers have...
Using domestic animals to make human organs
TAKE the fertilised egg of a pig. From each cell in the resulting embryo cut out a gene or genes that promote the...
A new method to find the time of death shows promise
AN EXAMPLE of the far reach of artificial intelligence (AI) is provided by a recent study in forensic science by Roderic Guigó of...
