Thousands ordered masks that let them unlock their phones during outbreaks. But this viral art project doesn’t just work with surveillance technology—it works against it, too.

One of the 20th century’s foremost physicists died today.

Some of the smartest people I know are getting ready for a crisis—including me.

Adversarial attacks against the technique that powers game-playing AIs and could control self-driving cars shows it may be less robust than we thought.

But it restricts some of the tools we may need to rapidly cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

Texas’s wind-powered digital gold rush might redraw the global map of the Bitcoin mining network.

NASA’s Artemis program is heralding a moon rush, and nobody—from SpaceX to Russia—wants to be left behind.

Super-cheap DNA sequencing could boost cancer screening, prenatal tests, and research into population genetics.

In recent years, advancements in socially-assistive robots have opened up a promising new way for more affordable and personalized care.

A fiction story about the future

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the elite of the elite gather to hatch plans for the future of the planet. I asked some of this year’s participants to tell me one thing they think will happen by 2030 that most people don’t realize.

Everywhere from business to medicine to the climate, forecasting the future is a complex and absolutely critical job. So how do you do it—and what comes next?

Welcome to the world of personalized medicine.

Predictions of any importance are never only about saying what will happen. Right or wrong, they also shape the course of events.

And wherever humans go, they’ll be taking satellite constellations with them to moon and Mars.

An introduction to our March/April 2020 special issue on prediction

These are the big trends of the coming decades that need to be considered for any new technologies to be successful.

This publication has been predicting what comes next for 120 years. Here’s what some of those predictions have looked like through the decades.

IBM thinks quantum supremacy is not the milestone we should care about.