The full FireSat system should be able to detect tiny fires anywhere in the world, and provide updated images every 20 ...

Since Russia’s invasion, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov has become an influential, if sometimes controversial, force—sharing ...

The company’s surface code technique allows its quantum bits to faithfully store and manipulate data for longer, which could pave the way for useful quantum computers. Google researchers claim ...

The climate emulator invites you to explore the controversial climate intervention. I gave it a whirl. AI pioneer Andrew Ng has released a simple online tool that allows anyone to tinker with the ...

It could assist the company in its efforts to embed AI in more and more of its products. As long as chatbots have been around, they have made things up. Such “hallucinations” are an inherent ...

The decision locks libraries into an ecosystem that is not in readers' interests. Congress must act. I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before us, the ...

A number of farmers are turning to space-based monitoring to get a better picture of what their crops need. Last year, as the harvest season drew closer, Olabokunde Tope came across an unpleasant ...

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency is providing £81 million to get scientific teams looking for telltale signs of spiraling climate shifts. The UK’s new moonshot research agency just ...

AI is skilled at tapping into vast realms of data and tailoring it to a specific purpose—making it a highly customizable tool for combating misinformation. The internet has made it easier than ...

An intelligent digital agent could be a companion for life—and other predictions for the next 125 years. Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have ...

Sulfur hexafluoride is crucial for high-voltage equipment, but it can trap heat in the atmosphere for 1,000 years or more. And emissions are on the rise. The power grid is underpinned by a single ...