On key metrics, a VR experience elicited a response indistinguishable from subjects who took medium doses of LSD or magic mushrooms. Fifteen years ago, David Glowacki was walking in the mountains when he took a […]

Voices of VR sits down with Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz for two hours to unpack some of the many threads Magic Leap’s behind origin story. The journey to augmented reality. It really did not […]

The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term archival storage. That’s largely because it’s extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, and comes in a format […]

Ball tells the broader story of the Metaverse, helping bring a more grounded definition of the Metaverse reflecting what’s already happening in gaming and where it’s likely to go in the future. Matthew Ball’s “The […]

Like any technology, there is always a dark side — especially with a newer technology that is so invasive that it literally gets under our skin. n 2021, a British/Polish firm known as Walletmor announced […]

Nuclear, believe it or not, is booming again. And with a serious pile of private and public funding behind them, these companies say they’re even getting closer to fusion. With energy prices on the rise, […]

Carbon dioxide removal company Climeworks announced on Tuesday it is building a second commercial-sized plant in Iceland that will capture and store 36,000 metric tons per year of carbon dioxide. The company’s goals are ambitious: […]

Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc revealed its first quantum computer on Thursday and is ready to make it available to external users, joining the global race to apply the technology to practical uses. The […]

A new book argues that artificial intelligence will never surpass human intelligence. Barry Smith, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy in UB’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Jobst Landgrebe, Ph.D., founder […]

With many employees spending at least a quarter of their time on manual, repetitive tasks, it is worth identifying how to enhance both man and machine by looking at collaborative intelligence. AI-enabled automation favors the […]

‘Shoon’ is not a particularly good game, but it is a harbinger of AI art’s entrance into game development. Shoon is a recently released side scrolling shmup that is fairly unremarkable, except for one quirk: […]

Robert Sansone’s research could pave the way for the sustainable manufacturing of electric vehicles that do not require rare-earth magnets. Robert Sansone is a natural born engineer. From animatronic hands to high-speed running boots and […]

13 members of Forbes Technology Council discuss new and developing smart city technologies they believe will genuinely improve the way urban areas function. The technical definition of a smart city—an urban area in which technology […]

Midjourney is a 10-person research lab responsible for the eponymous AI image generator accessed through a Discord chat server. The Verge interviews the founder, David Holz. AI-generated artwork is quietly beginning to reshape culture. Over […]

“Explainable AI is one of the most important ways we are helping consumers understand that, so a user can say with a much greater degree of certainty that no, this AI isn’t introducing bias, and […]

Newly valued at $2 billion, the AI 50 debutant originated as a chatbot for teenagers. Now, it has aspirations—and $100 million in fresh dry powder—to be the GitHub of machine learning. When Hugging Face first […]

Ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine discusses why LaMDA and other AI systems may be considered sentient and explains exactly how much AI systems know about consumers. You hypothesized that LaMDA has a soul. Where are you […]

Apple has hired a 20-year veteran of supercar maker Lamborghini to work on the tech company’s not-so-secret electric autonomous vehicle program. The executive, Luigi Taraborrelli, appears to have left Lamborghini in May 2022, according to […]

Synchron’s procedure will help an ALS patient text by thinking, in a major step forward in a nascent industry, with the Brooklyn-based company recently overtaking Elon Musk’s Neuralink. On July 6 a doctor at the […]

China’s SMIC is shipping a foundry process with commercially available chips in the open market which are more advanced than any American or European company. We say quietly as this didn’t come directly from SMIC, […]

But the company has had to rush out fixes to the image-making model’s worst flaws to do so. Around 100,000 people have played with DALL-E 2 since its invite-only launch in April. Today, the San […]

Today, DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s AI system that can generate images given a prompt or edit and refine existing images, is becoming more widely available. The company announced in a blog post that it will expedite […]

An ill-fated proposal by Google-affiliate Sidewalk Labs to build a data-driven smart city in Toronto raised privacy concerns among locals. The city now plans to reimagine the site into a foliage-filled urban oasis. Quayside may […]

A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight says that the global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 22 percent during 2021 to reach 2.1 billion. The major regional markets China, […]

Born from Alphabet’s “moonshot” division, NextSense aims to sell earbuds that can collect heaps of neural data—and uncover the mysteries of gray matter. NextSense was born at Google and spun out of Alphabet’s X division. […]

Walk out into your back yard, jump into a next-generation electric VTOL flying machine, lift off and soar your way to the office helipad: that’s the dream of personal eVTOL ownership. Sweden’s Jetson One aircraft […]

One of the keys to the VR industry’s rapid growth in the past 2–3 years is Meta sold VR headsets at a loss and aggressively promoted its VR business. The VR industry/ecosystem has matured. Although […]

Forget your bulky AR headsets, smart contact lenses are coming to place augmented reality displays right there on your eyeball. Last week, Mojo Vision CEO Drew Perkins volunteered to test the first feature-complete prototype of […]

Eyes are by far our main input from the real and digital worlds. The future of Augmented Reality therefore vitally depends on a display technology that can merge the two worlds into one. The real […]

Changing objects with the mind has long been a trope in science fiction. Now, thanks to metasurfaces, two studies just showed that it’s potentially possible. Metamaterials are artificial composites with bizarre optical properties. Often arranged […]