This month, my Scientific American column tackles the new era of vertical video—videos shot and viewed as tall, thin rectangles, suitable for smartphone screens without having to turn them. It...
Interactions between people and artificially intelligent machines pose tricky questions about liability and accountability, according to a legal expert Artificial intelligence is already making signif...
Cloud services seen as the future of games Microsoft shipped its first video game in 1981, appropriately named Microsoft Adventure. It was an MS-DOS game that booted directly from a floppy disk, and ...
With all the hot discussions (for instance, here, here, here and here) going on right now among medicinal chemists, pharmaceutical researchers, and data scientists as to what artificial intellige...
Hokkaido University researchers have uncovered a cellular protein that stabilizes a tumor promoting signaling pathway, suggesting a new target to treat prostate cancer. The drug Gefitinib is used to t...
The venerable clay pot has its roots deep in ancient history. Our ancestors needed vessels to carry water and store food, and found the water-resistant naturally occurring clays in the soil were ideal...
By Ben Coxworth – August 10, 2015 We’ve seen some highly-portable electric vehicles before, including diminutive scootersand skateboards. Cocoa Motors’ new WalkCar, however, make...
By Paul Ridden – June 29, 2015 About this time last year, a pint-sized mashup of projector and Android computer hit crowdfunding portal Indiegogo. The TouchPico allowed users to activate ico...