The quest to retrieve, analyze, and leverage health data has become the new gold rush. And a vanguard of tech titans—not to mention a bevy of hot startups—are on the hunt for it.

The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents

Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps an bounds.

Every night during breeding season, the male tungara frog of Central America will stake out a performance patch in the local pond and spend unbroken hour broadcasting his splendor to the world.

From landfill recycler to skyscraper printer: predictions of how you will be employed in 2030.

By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them.

Smaller algorithms that don’t need mountains of data to train are coming.

When Eugenia Kuyda created her chatbot, Replika, she wanted it to stand out among the voice assistants and home robots that had begun to take root in peoples lives. Sure, AI made it possible to schedule an appointment or get the weather forecast by barking into your phone.