Emerging Tech

Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke AI — an open-source creative engine — outlines the pros and cons of open-source and closed-source AI tools.

ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.

Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.

It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.

When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s airship startup hits a major milestone.

A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.

Business advisor Michael C. Fillios has developed a repeatable playbook for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to add value from technology.

Analog could serve as “always-on” computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.

The miniaturization of particle accelerators could disrupt medical science.

With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.

AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.

To reap the benefits of AI technologies, businesses must keep humans in the driving seat.

From fearless quitting to redefined values, “Virtual Natives” are reinventing work culture.

New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line. 

Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.

Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.

The brain implant lets her talk four times faster than the previous record.

Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.

Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.

Theoretical physics professor Michio Kaku outlines the evolution of computers from analog to digital and introduces quantum computers as the next frontier.

Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.

LK-99, almost certainly, isn’t a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.

It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.

Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.

The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.

An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.

AI programs like ChatGPT can create “thanabots” based on deceased loved ones’ digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.

It will be immensely difficult for the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to protect their competitive edge if they do not pursue a radical change.

Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?