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Wireless startup WiTricity wants cars to power up without human help and feed utilities energy during peak demand.

The furniture store’s design agency has dreamed up seven ways we might use autonomous vehicles if we don’t actually have to focus on driving.

AI has huge potential to transform our lives, but the term itself is being abused in very worrying ways, says Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Two speakers at this year’s EmTech MIT conference addressed voting vulnerabilities.

MIT professor Dina Katabi is building a gadget that can sit in one spot and track everything from breathing to walking, no wearables required.

Top energy scientist Daniel Schrag says we have to adapt and innovate, because we’re already signed up for centuries of higher global temperatures.

Cognitive science and neuroscience could inspire the next big innovations in artificial intelligence, says the head of an ambitious new MIT-led research project.

Materials scientist Gerd Ceder is overseeing a research effort to extend the capabilities of the dominant form of energy storage, using a new class of compounds.

Going mainstream could be disastrous for the currency, if traders treat it like a conventional asset.

A startup called Rigetti Computing is linking quantum computers with classical ones in a new cloud service

That’s the view of security expert Bruce Schneier, who fears lives will be lost in a cyber disaster unless governments act swiftly.

Depending on solar and wind without nuclear, carbon capture, or other “firm low-carbon resources” would be extremely expensive, MIT researchers find.

A startup invests in a way to keep people younger, despite doubts about its science.

And one fundamental question that should underlie tomorrow’s Congressional testimony.

But first we need to convince companies to build nuclear plants at all.

The state is on the verge of passing a rule requiring 100 percent of its electricity to come from carbon-free sources.

A technique called Mendelian randomization could be the revolutionary tool drug companies have been waiting for.

Freelance cybersleuths can help companies find flaws in their code. But the bug hunters could fall afoul of anti-hacking laws.

21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries.

The first Obama campaign kicked off a technological revolution in electioneering. Where is it going next?

The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.

Long before the internet, hate speech flourished in echo chambers of a different kind.

Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online and why divides are so hard to bridge.

vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction.

Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.

Science fiction: What happens when fake news is everywhere?

Inside the race to catch the worryingly real fakes that can be made using artificial intelligence.

These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing.

Cyberattacks on the 2016 US election caused states to bolster the defenses of their voting systems. It hasn’t been enough, says the University of Michigan’s Alex Halderman.

Increased use of machine learning and cloud services could make the financial world more vulnerable.

To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.

FiscalNote takes the intuition out of politics. Does it take the democracy out, too?

Machine learning and artificial intelligence can help guard against cyberattacks, but hackers can foil security algorithms by targeting the data they train on and the warning flags they look for.

The success shows that advances in artificial intelligence aren’t the sole domain of elite programmers.

It’s too dangerous to conduct elections over the internet, they say, and West Virginia’s new plan to put votes on a blockchain doesn’t fix that.

Can we safely fix the DNA of human embryos in a lab dish?

It’s taken years of work and billions of dollars in venture funding to build a working mixed-reality headset for developers. Now what?

Coursera is unveiling a new machine learning tool to show companies what skills their employees are acquiring from its classes and their level of expertise.

Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI—but this may be the beginning of an arms race.

These robotic limbs could someday help people work together when they’re far apart.

Augur lets people bet on events and pays whoever gets it right—so of course they’re wagering on the deaths of Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos.

A reinforcement-learning algorithm allows Dactyl to learn physical tasks by practicing them in a virtual-reality environment.

The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.

Fluctuating solar and wind power require lots of energy storage, and lithium-ion batteries seem like the obvious choice—but they are far too expensive to play a major role.

Harvard geoengineering researcher David Keith explains when to feed the trolls and when not to.

Researchers explore genetic “scores” that may predict educational success.

Stanford and Berkeley scientists found that suicides, as well as depressive language on Twitter, rise as temperatures do.

How DNA sequencing and new genetic drugs raise the chance we can cure any inherited disease.

Gene-editing technology is eyed as the next step in the quest to create cats that don’t make you sneeze.

It’s turning carbon credits into crypto-tokens—part of a scheme to create a massive marketplace of novel digital assets.