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Robleh Ali, former crypto specialist for the Bank of England, on why initial coin offerings are dangerous and how to make them more useful.

“Inclusion happens when people in power use that power to bring people in rather than keep people out.”

Crypto­currency networks are turning out to be far less private than we thought, and forensic investigators are turning that to their advantage.

Despite efforts to boost security, critical parts of America’s voting infrastructure are still vulnerable to cyberattack.

Last September’s official restrictions have unleashed a wave of below-the-radar innovation.

Conservatives have to make the case to conservatives, and a growing number of them are.

People are copying pets to preserve a physical, and spiritual, connection to dead children.

Syrian refugees could regain legal identities that were lost when they fled their homes.

A Canadian hydropower operation put out the welcome mat for bitcoin miners. Shortly thereafter, it was overrun.

A cryptocurrency future sounds liberating. In reality, it would be a disaster for everybody.

Long after the training data has been deleted, the models can continue being improved and used to influence future voters.

To understand why blockchain matters, look past the wild speculation at what is being built underneath, argue the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency and its newly published follow-up, The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything.

Government indifference toward AI could let the US lose ground to rival countries. But what would a good AI plan actually look like?

The California-based startup’s new machine takes to the skies just as the US is about to loosen rules governing drone operations.

Scientists have linked hundreds of genes to intelligence. One psychologist says it’s time to test school kids.

Legislation meant to clarify things for blockchain developers could end up hurting innovation.

Astro Teller says it’s thinking about how to pair machine learning with other technologies to revolutionize agriculture.

The Chinese internet giant says it’s made significant strides in machine translation thanks to neural networks.

Despite impressive advances, three speakers at EmTech Digital show how far there is to go in the AI world.

The most nimble-fingered machine yet shows how machine learning can teach robots to recognize and pick up different types of objects, a skill that could transform many factories and warehouses.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all want to dominate the business of providing artificial-intelligence services through cloud computing. The winner may have the OS of the future.

Chinese doctors and tech companies are developing tools to automate routine medical tasks.

Earlier diagnosis could help researchers develop drugs to slow the progress of the disease.

Drawing up technical standards is an early attempt to control how AI evolves worldwide.

Here are the real reasons we’re not building clean energy anywhere near fast enough.

Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first.

The lobbying effort to get the FDA out of the way of biotech animals is under way.

Speedy caffeine delivery is Café X’s X factor, and the coffee’s decent, too.

A city council member calls his plan to mint a new crypto-token an “initial community offering.” If it works, it could be revolutionary.

Rapid DNA sequencing is helping doctors treat critically ill infants in days rather than weeks.

Alibaba is investing huge sums in AI research and resources—and it is building tools to challenge Google and Amazon.

Blockchain-powered computer programs promise to revolutionize the digital economy, but new research suggests they’re far from secure.

I tried out 5G wireless networks, AI translation robots, and self-driving buses in Pyeongchang.

Matthew Vander Heiden helped revive the forgotten—but critical—study of cancer metabolism.

Innovations in fields like energy and transportation often take time—and extra support—to develop. The Engine at MIT is helping them make the leap from the lab to the marketplace.

By pitting neural networks against one another, Ian Goodfellow has created a powerful AI tool. Now he, and the rest of us, must face the consequences.

DNA-based scores are getting better at predicting intelligence, risks for common diseases, and more.

In this excerpt from his new book Taming the Sun, Varun Sivaram follows the research paths of two rival scientists determined to find a way to wring fuel out of thin air.

Hello, quantum world.

An ambitious project by Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs could reshape how we live, work, and play in urban neighborhoods.

Dueling neural networks. Artificial embryos. AI in the cloud. Welcome to our annual list of the 10 technology advances we think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come.

No matter what anyone tells you, we’re not ready for the massive societal upheavals on the way.

Spruced-up human and animal organs could someday be the solution for people needing transplants.

The Jigsaw team at Alphabet brings people who were radicalized online back from the brink, one video at a time.

Inside EDGE: the shipping giant’s ambitious, tech-driven bid to keep Amazon and others at bay.

Why redesigning the humble yeast could kick off the next industrial revolution.

Timnit Gebru looks around the AI world and sees almost no one who looks like her. That’s a problem for all of us.

A skilled autopilot function will make drones far more ubiquitous and useful.

Ethan Zuckerman on fighting social media’s echo chamber.

Lawrence Livermore Lab’s increasingly powerful climate models have sounded a stark warning for California.