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Teaching Drones How To Crash Safely
Drone delivery won’t happen until the unmanned vehicle can master the emergency landing.
Sustainable Energy
Sucking Up CO2 Will Cost Hundreds of Trillions
Study finds that if the world doesn’t begin cutting emissions soon, the price of capturing and storing carbon dioxide will soar.
Business Impact
The Startup Behind NYC’s Plan to Replace Phone Booths with 7,500 Connected Kiosks
Intersection, which is funded by Alphabet, hopes they could someday guide autonomous vehicles, too.
Sustainable Energy
Small Reactors Could Kick-Start the Stalled Nuclear Sector
NuScale is on track to build the first commercial small modular reactors in the United States.
Rewriting Life
Verily Robot Will Raise 20 Million Sterile Mosquitoes for Release in California
The company, an arm of Alphabet, is using mosquitoes infected with a sterilizing bacteria to fight dengue and Zika.
Intelligent Machines
Karamba Is Writing Software to Keep Your Connected Car from Getting Hacked
In Israeli’s cybersecurity-focused tech scene, cars are becoming a hot area.
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It Pays to Be Smart
Superstar companies are dominating the economy by exploiting a growing gap in digital competencies.
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How Will We Solve Big Energy Challenges?
How will industry leaders, government officials, researchers, entrepreneurs - lift billions of people out of poverty - and continue to advance technological civilization? Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review delivers a striking message of collaboration from the Offshore Technology Conference Statoil Reception in Houston, Texas.
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Fight Scale with Scale
Samsung has rebounded from its battery-related challenges by expanding its fault resolution capabilities and is now positioned to revolutionize the manner in which the global smartphone industry mitigates future issues. Samsung’s solution could have massive ramifications for the industry, creating a quality control platform in which the entire industry may participate.
Intelligent Machines
Artificial intelligence and robots are transforming how we work and live.
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Reinforcement Learning: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them.
by Will Knight
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For Computers, Too, It’s Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese
Challenging written characters make voice-based computing a natural for China, but computers that can hold a conversation in Chinese are some way off.
by Yiting Sun
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China Plans to Use Artificial Intelligence to Gain Global Economic Dominance by 2030
The country’s government has announced a scheme to surpass Western nations and shape the future of AI.
by Will Knight
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Sustainable Energy
Can we sustainably provide food, water, and energy to a growing population during a climate crisis?
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Sucking Up CO2 Will Cost Hundreds of Trillions
Study finds that if the world doesn’t begin cutting emissions soon, the price of capturing and storing carbon dioxide will soar.
by James Temple
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Small Reactors Could Kick-Start the Stalled Nuclear Sector
NuScale is on track to build the first commercial small modular reactors in the United States.
by James Temple
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Grid Batteries Are Poised to Become Cheaper Than Natural-Gas Plants in Minnesota
A new report suggests the economics of large-scale batteries are reaching an important inflection point.
by Michael Reilly
AI Meets CRM: Transforming Customer Experiences
Sponsored by Salesforce
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Transform Customer Experiences by Harnessing the Power of AI in CRM
Companies are using AI to build personalized and dynamic experiences to engage both internal and external audiences.
by MIT Technology Review Custom
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Artificial Intelligence for Everyone: A Next-Generation Experience
Organizations today are challenged with mining, analyzing and putting to good use the vast amounts of data now flooding in from multiple checkpoints. How to utilize that data to get closer to internal and external customers?
by MIT Technology Review Custom
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Customer Data Meets AI
A new day is dawning for the customer experience, driven by the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automated technologies to CRM data. The potential exists to transform the customer’s experience by providing service in a more predictive and intuitive way than ever before.
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Interstellar travel and post-humans
The stupendous time-spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture.
by Martin Rees
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Robotics, Smart Materials, and their Future Impact for Humans
We are on the cusp of a robotics revolution in which the boundaries between artificial intelligence and biology are blurring.
by Jonathan Rossiter
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The Next Step in Finance: Exponential Banking
The current technological revolution is accelerating the transformation, not only of industry and business, but also of human lifestyles, culture, and, therefore, society as a whole.
by Francisco Gonzalez
