The Economist explores how artificial intelligence is helping humans make new kinds of art. It is more likely to emerge as a collaborator than a competitor for those working in creative industries.
Mining for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ether, and dogecoin isn’t as lucrative as it used to be. Here’s a look at how to do it and why small-time miners are being driven out of business.
At MIT’s Media Lab, researchers are developing prosthetic limbs that users can control with their minds, making a robotic foot move as seamlessly as a biological one.
Hello World’s Ashlee Vance heads out on Route 395 in a bid to see robots who have become farmers.
The goal of neuromorphic computing is simple: mimic the neural structure of the brain.
Seeker checks out the current generation of computer chips that’s getting closer to reaching this non-trivial engineering task.
Quantum computers can solve problems in seconds that would take “ordinary” computers millennia, but their sensitivity to interference is major engineering obstacle.
Now, researchers claim they’ve created a component that drastically cuts down on error-inducing noise.
Seeker explains how graphene could make a big difference.
Ashlee Vance reports on a New Zealand company that has built its own space-plane prototype. Dawn Aerospace hopes to establish a cheap, quick way to transport objects into orbit, and in doing so transform the commercialization of space.
For decades, humans have been trying to make a plane that can reach space and return to Earth by way of a runway. Space shuttles aside, only now is the dawn of the space plane finally upon us.
Seeker explains how a new kind of nuclear battery could power missions into deep space.
In April of 2020, NASA researchers announced they had come up with a new approach to fusion that has the potential to power missions into deep space, and maybe even future laptops here on Earth. This is really exciting news as when it comes to making energy, nuclear fusion is the ultimate goal because of the promise it holds of clean limitless energy that is available on demand.
While terrestrial tourism has been hit hard due to the pandemic, entrepreneurs and visionaries have their eyes cast spaceward.
Space tourism has been, almost, nonexistent in the past, but Virgin Galactic, SpaceX and Blue Origin are looking to change that.
However, accessibility to space tourism remains limited to the richest of the rich, with ticket prices ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions.
Development of these space tourism programs is costing these companies billions and each has a different reason for pursuing this, as of yet, unproven market.
In this episode, Seeker tackles the question that’s on everyone’s minds: what will it take to have quantum internet in our home?
Yes, Virginia, a quantum internet is in the works.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently rolled out a blueprint describing research goals and engineering barriers on the way to quantum internet.
The DOE’s latest blueprint for a quantum internet in the U.S. has four key milestones. The first is to make sure quantum information sent over current fiber optic cables is secure. Then to establish entangled networks across colleges or cities, then throughout states, and finally for the whole country.