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Lockheed Martin engineers wear the goggles to help them assemble the crew capsule Orion—without having to read thousands of pages of paper instructions.

In as little as 24 hours, Mapper will deliver a machine-readable map of any place on earth with public roads.

It should be possible to automatically identify dubious news sources—but we’ll need a lot more data.

The White House should worry less about China’s progress and invest heavily in artificial intelligence breakthroughs, according to Kai-Fu Lee.

A fresh diplomatic push could help put vital public services off limits to nation-state cyberattacks.

What kind of robot could handle this impossible-seeming cave mission?

Lime and other companies are gathering masses of location-based information that some cities are leveraging to improve their streets.

Facebook’s VR unit revealed the new Quest headset at its conference for developers, but I couldn’t try it from my couch.

Meet the man behind Alibaba’s gamble on emerging tech.

The flexible stamp can collect data that usually requires bulky, invasive equipment.

A popular anti-aging strategy keeps mice from getting senile.

A proposed state law would help bolster the security of internet-connected devices, but what’s really needed is federal action.

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.