Articles by Technology Review from October 2015

A founding father of artificial intelligence talks about the great breakthroughs of his early years.Marvin Minsky is one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence, and over the past 60 years ...

The high-flying Internet balloons dreamed up by Google will get their biggest test yet in 2016.The three largest cellular networks serving Indonesias 250 million people are set to get an upgrade from ...

A small drone capable of building its own maps of an indoor space shows how the craft could become easier to use.Commercial drones are starting to be used for tasks like inspecting oil rigs and crops....

Researchers have built an emoji video search demo that lets you use tiny pictures to sort through thousands of YouTube clips.In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis ...

Affordable, lightweight, and versatile, batteries made of porous materials could soon transform energy storage.Despite billions of dollars in investment and the launch of several high-profile startups...

Researchers have created an artificial neural network that identifies the activities in a users average day through a catalogue of images.New research in neural networks may let computers identify our...

A drug that helps people after organ transplants has extended the lives of fruit flies, worms, and mice. The next step is to see what it will do for our pets.Scientists who study aging are currently r...

Tesla says its new Autopilot feature is not synonymous with autonomous driving, but some drivers are acting like it is.Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use...

After doctors bridge his spinal injury with electronics, a paralyzed man can control his arm with his thoughts.Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say theyve used electronics to get ...

An extra-muscular beagle has been created through genome engineering. Are we on our way to customizing the DNA of our pets?Mans best friend is now his newest genetic engineering project....

One robot has been given a simulated version of the brain cells that let animals build a mental map of their surroundings.The behavior and interplay of two types of neurons in the brain helps give hum...

A drone that guides blind runners around a track is just one of several new fitness technologies designed to assist the visually impaired.While NASA is working to make drones quieter, one researcher a...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an algorithm to help humanoid robots hit the ground without breaking themselves.At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar ro...

An American woman claims she is the first to undergo gene therapy to reverse aging. Judge for yourself.Can aging be slowed by using gene therapy to make permanent changes to a persons DNA?...

How Ubers archenemy plans to make the world a better place by building a kind of public transit system from private cars.We were all in the car with Alexandr, listening to techno, which was his choice...

Researchers in Jaron Laniers lab at Microsoft are exploring ways for people to share the experience of mixed reality.Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real worl...

The United Nations has raised its projections for the worlds population in 2050 to nearly 10 billion. While women are having fewer children, death rates are also dropping because of better health care...

Apple could subcontract the manufacturing required to produce a car and focus on the software, which is becoming ever more important.Automobile production might seem a stretch for a company more accus...

Neurosurgeons hope to treat some of the most intractable mental disorders by putting advanced arrays of electrodes into patients brains.When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients ...

Can India modernize its manufacturing economy and supply electricity to its growing population without relying heavily on coaland quite possibly destroying the global climate?An old man wakes on the f...

Clever business people like Hiram Centelles find ways to offer online services in Cuba despite tight restrictions. Will they flourish or be swamped by foreign competition when the communist island fin...

Columbia economist says ambitious international goals are needed to avert big crises in the world.Establishing a set of hugely ambitious global goals that include ending extreme poverty by 2030 is not...

Microsoft researchers show that batteries that can be more actively managed by software might make our devices last longer.Mobile devices such as tablets and smart watches could become quicker to char...

The discovery of briny water on the Martian surface has brought new optimism that life might exist on our neighboring planet.When NASA scientists announced that instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance ...

To truly change the world, Googles new holding company will need something that has eluded many previous industrial labs: an effective commercialization strategy.One of the more interesting documents ...

Researchers trained a computer to recognize the behavior that precedes a particular maneuver.An experimental new dashboard computer can not only keep track of your behavior behind the wheel, but even ...

The Islamic State is an Internet phenomenon as much as a military one. Counteracting it will require better tactics on the battlefield of social media.The two men pecked out messages on opposite sides...