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China Plans to Use Artificial Intelligence to Gain Global Economic Dominance by 2030

The country’s government has announced a scheme to surpass Western nations and shape the future of AI.

by Will Knight

This Image Is Why Self-Driving Cars Come Loaded with Many Types of Sensors

When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal.

by Jamie Condliffe

The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry

Machine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the study and understanding of mental illness.

by Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Google’s AI Guru Says That Great Artificial Intelligence Must Build on Neuroscience

Inquisitiveness and imagination will be hard to create any other way.

by Jamie Condliffe

$99 Headset Could Be Augmented Reality’s First True Chance at a Mass Market

Its success will depend mostly on the kind of content that developers create.

by Rachel Metz

Verily Robot Will Raise 20 Million Sterile Mosquitoes for Release in California

The company, an arm of Alphabet, is using mosquitoes infected with a sterilizing bacteria to fight dengue and Zika.

by Emily Mullin