Number of words: 347 A group ofscientists have developed a way to translate brain waves directly into human speech, potentially giving patients who are unable to use their voices another way to communicate. While the science is still a long way from a method that can be used as an interpreter for people who otherwise … Read more

Number of words: 711 It can be tough to recall that Intel Corp. invented the memory chip business half a century ago. It gave up on the field for more than a decade, starting in the 1980s, and has struggled since returning in 2006 to match the success of Samsung Electronics Co. in the historically … Read more

Number of words: 473 Choosing to forget something uses more brain power than trying to remember it, according to a study that could lead to treatments to help people rid themselves of unwanted memories. The findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggest that in order to forget an unwanted experience, more attention should be … Read more

Number of words: 2,371 For the 100 years it’s been in operation, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio has been a repository for artwork by American masters, from preeminent 19th-century painters like Winslow Homer, to 20th-century realists like Edward Hopper and George Bellows, to pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. … Read more

Number of words: 876 The artificial-intelligence industry is often compared to the oil industry: once mined and refined, data, like oil, can be a highly lucrative commodity. Now it seems the metaphor may extend even further. Like its fossil-fuel counterpart, the process of deep learning has an outsize environmental impact. In a new paper, researchers … Read more

Number of words: 571 Gandhi lived too long. Returning to India from South Africa in 1915, at the age of 45, holding himself aloof from the established politicians of the time, involving himself with communities and groups hitherto untouched by politics, taking on purely local forces here and there. He then went on very quickly, … Read more

Number of words: 1,647 Two years ago, Alice Agogino, a UC-Berkeley mechanical engineering professor, was working on a contract to build exploratory robots for NASA Ames. She had been recruited to help design what would eventually become a fleet of mobile, ultra-impact-resistant, remote-sensing robots that could protect sensitive scientific equipment during a drop from orbit … Read more

Number of words: 428 Scientists have created the world’s smallest pixels, by trapping particles of light under tiny rocks of gold, that could be used for new types of large-scale flexible displays, big enough to cover entire buildings. The colour pixels, developed by scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK, are compatible with … Read more

Number of words: 147 The most buzzed-about disruptive technologies that are changing business landscapes today are Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Almost all of us have heard or read about them but do we actually know what the fuss is all about? The enterprises are trying to harness the explosion of digital data … Read more

Number of words: 253 Faulty materials provided by an aluminium manufacturer led to the failure of two NASA satellite launch missions, causing a loss of more than $700 million, an investigation by the US space agency has found. The faulty materials provided by Sapa Profiles, Inc. (SPI) were used for the making of Taurus XL, … Read more