Athletes look for an edge in a new place: virtual reality

Mar 28, 2016 10:38 am UTC| Sports Technology Entertainment

Virtual reality (VR) appears ready to take the entertainment world by storm in 2016. In addition to the much-hyped Oculus Rift, major corporations such as Facebook, Sony and Samsung are poised to release high-quality VR...

Microsoft's racist chatbot Tay highlights how far AI is from being truly intelligent

Mar 28, 2016 01:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

It has been a nightmare of a PR week for Microsoft. It started with the head of Microsofts Xbox division, Phil Spencer, having to apologise for having scantily clad female dancers dressed as school girls at a party thrown...

Can we replace politicians with robots?

Mar 28, 2016 01:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

If you had the opportunity to vote for a politician you totally trusted, who you were sure had no hidden agendas and who would truly represent the electorates views, you would, right? What if that politician was a...

Scientists turn to 3D printing, digital simulations to treat heart disease

Mar 26, 2016 06:30 am UTC| Science Technology

My mother bought her first GPS in the 1990s. A few months later, she came home angry because it had directed her to the wrong side of the city, making her an hour late. Thats too bad, I said, and we went on with our lives....

Everything you need to know about mini nuclear reactors

Mar 25, 2016 01:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Nuclear power can be a touchy subject, one that seems to divide opinion. Many people believe it is unclean, controversial and costly and the 2011 Fukushima disaster showed the world just how unsafe nuclear can be; the...

2016 Brussels Bombings

Could super recognisers be the latest weapon in the war on terror?

Mar 24, 2016 23:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

In the wake of the terror attacks on Brussels, Belgian police rapidly identified two of the suicide bombers that carried out the attacks: brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, both Belgian nationals. The identification...

Big data security problems threaten consumers' privacy

Mar 23, 2016 17:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology

As more personal information is collected up by ever-more-powerful computers, giant sets of data big data have become available for not only legitimate uses but also abuses. Big data has an enormous potential to...