This is a tale that starts off like a joke: A researcher walks into a bar… and ends with a revolutionary advancement in deep learning. Nobody’s laughing now at how Ian Goodfellow, a staff research scientist at Google, got the idea for generative ...

Closing the gap in diagnosing and preventing heart disease would have an enormous effect on global health. Researchers at the Imperial College London are using virtual 3D models of the heart and machine learning to do just that. Heart disease is the ...

Three-dimensional printing has opened up new possibilities in fields like manufacturing, architecture, engineering and construction. But when the objects to be printed become complex, limitations kick in. Challenges in 3D printing include multiple ...

Finding a cheetah across a dozen square miles of African bush can be difficult. But that same animal might lay down 200,000 footprints in a day. So finding its tracks is a lot easier. And it turns out that, beyond being useful for locating animals, ...

Baseball has the now legendary story of Moneyball, with the under-financed Oakland A’s outdueling big money teams by using sabermetrics to analyze player activity. To match a game as fast and fluid as ice hockey, Toronto-based startup ICEBERG is ...

The next highlight reel you watch could be curated by AI. To expedite the time it takes to create multiple reels for eSports, Yahoo! researchers decide to train computers to identify key gameplay moments. One challenge was to remove subjectivity ...

Seeing may be believing. But when treating cancer, our eyes sometimes misinform us. When interpreting CT and MRI scans, it can be difficult to distinguish the borders between organs and tumors, to determine how tumors have changed since the previous ...

What a dump. Humanity produces around 1.3 billion metric tons (2.8 trillion pounds) of waste a year, according to the World Bank. Most ends up in landfills. While much of it could be recycled, the process of sorting and recycling waste material is ...

Traffic. Nobody likes it, but we all have to deal with it. As the world’s cities grow more densely populated, scientists and entrepreneurs are looking for solutions to gridlock, pollution and the other byproducts of a world filled with cars. Two ...

It’s not just a good time to be a PC gamer. It’s a great time. The new high-performance Intel Core i9 family of CPUs and AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU announced this week at Computex in Taiwan represent just the latest major investments in the thriving ...