Indermit Gill predicts the dominant player for the age of artificial intelligence: the United States, China, or the European Union.

Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that be truly ‘smart’?

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it aims to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits by 2030 and that by 2050, it hopes to have taken out enough to account for all the direct emissions the company has ever made.

The AI firm beat the competition when it came to predicting the structure of proteins, which may eventually improve how we treat diseases

Most science fiction is not predictive. Yet it can still be a guide to the future

Ever-faster processors led to bloated software, but physical limits may force a return to the concise code of the past

Scientists are replacing crops and livestock with food made in factories from microbes and water. It may save humanity’s bacon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

AI researchers admit that the hype around AI may be cooling off once again.

Cast your mind back a decade or so and consider how the future looked then. A public horizon of Obama-imbued “yes we can” and a high tide of hope and tolerance expressed in the London Olympics provides one narrative theme; underlying austerity-induced pressure another. Neither speaks directly to our current world of divisive partisan politics, toxic social media use, competing facts and readily believed fictions.

Technology from it's beginning has been good and bad. The bad from it has come from us weaponizing whether it be images, ideas or even people.

Toyota is calling the site "Woven City."

An emerging cancer therapy could someday shorten the time patients spend in treatment and improve their overall outcomes.

An ultra-high capacity lithium-sulphur battery that could keep a smartphone charged for five days may pave the way for cheaper electric cars

Google AI's Jeff Dean, PyTorch's Soumith Chintala, Nvidia ML's Anima Anandkumar, Kidd Lab's Celeste Kidd, and IBM Research's Dario Gil on the future of AI.

You're late for work because you forgot to set the alarm clock embedded in your forearm. Rushing out of bed, you give your family members, located thousands of miles away, a quick virtual hug, and hop into the car -- ordering your ape chauffeur to step on it. It's a stressful day, sure, but at least your vacation to the Moon is just a few days away.

Astrophysicist Ron Mallett believes he’s found a way to travel back in time — theoretically. The tenured University of Connecticut physics professor recently told CNN that he’s written a scientific equation that could serve as the foundation for an actual time machine. He’s even built a prototype device to illustrate a key component of his theory — though Mallett’s peers remain unconvinced that his time machine will ever come to fruition.

Hydrogen-powered drones have several advantages to lithium ion-powered ones, says Dr Enass Abo-Hamed.

Employers will offer substances which enhance cognitive abilities, while the have-nots will be left open to more health risks than ever

California gives a green light to companies testing driverless delivery vehicles.

A company has created a 3D model of a future human, based on some of these scientific predictions - and the result is truly horrifying.