MIT Technology Review

Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, believes unsupervised learning will bring about the next AI revolution.

Facebook has been dealing with criticism and scrutiny since it unveiled Libra. But the backlash shows that the project is a real wake-up call.

The race is on to create new ways to protect data and communications from the threat posed by super-powerful quantum computers.

Multiplayer poker is the latest game to fall to artificial intelligence—and the techniques used could be vital for trading, product pricing, and routing vehicles.

Gods Unchained is riding a wave of hype because of the way it lets players own digital cards. But the core concept could reach beyond games.

The town’s residents are rebuilding in the wake of the Camp Fire. But should they?

Many women are unaware that they are being spied on with apps hidden on their phones. App-store owners must do more.

Altruism is a puzzle for behavioral biologists. Now the largest-ever study of pay-it-forward reciprocity is throwing new light on the phenomenon.

The ability to focus light into a pattern rather than a point makes metalenses promising tools for carving circuits into silicon.

Its founders think crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, and blockchain voting can help citizens call the shots.

Its new fundamental research division could help the company regain international favor and outmaneuver the US.

Another genetically edited baby is due, but the world may never learn of its birth if the Chinese government decides to keep it a secret.

Unless we begin shutting down coal and natural-gas facilities, and stop building new ones, we’re doomed to miss the targets of the Paris treaty.

Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.

DeepNude has now been taken offline, but it won’t be the last time such technology is used to target vulnerable populations.

Twenty Democratic candidates had a chance to tell voters why climate change should be America’s top political priority. They mostly blew it.

Get ready for Dragonfly’s autonomous flight on Saturn’s largest moon.

Because seven minutes in a two-hour debate on the most pressing topic of our time is ridiculous.

Mathematical tools developed to analyze interactions in natural ecosystems help explain which films in the Marvel Universe make the most money.

Since the advent of the internet and after countless, massive breaches, the global community continues to struggle with cyber security and to treat it as an afterthought.

The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes.