Kira Radinsky has written an algorithm that dissects old news stories and other Internet postings to look for past cause and effect, and then can alert us to possible disasters, geopolitical... Read more
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur and investor, attracted some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names to join him in starting a life sciences prize this year. Now, he has wooed a titan from C... Read more
For the first time, the public has been treated to the spectacle of lab-grown meat cooked and eaten via live Webcast. Backed by Google billionaire Sergey Brin, Dutch tissue engineer Mark Pos... Read more
Google co-founder Sergey Brin believes that “self-driving cars will be far safer than human-driven cars” but who trusts them enough to drive in them or even alongside them? Drive... Read more
I’m an optimist, I really am, especially when it comes to technology and its ability to transform the world. But today I can’t shake the feeling that we as a species are really screwing up.... Read more
Wearers of the futuristic glasses can record what they are seeing on the in-built camera and access information on what’s around them Google today unveiled its latest invention – a pai... Read more
The future is all about magical yet scary technology Last week I wrote about the inevitability of the driverless automated car and despite the seduction of such technology, there were pros a... Read more
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google’s Sergey Brin Sergey Brin says he and Google co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create their search giant if the int... Read more
They will also have a unique navigation system People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made gl... Read more
Image by jurvetson via Flickr Google made a stunning revelation this morning: the existence of a secret self-driving car project. Even more amazing: it has been in testing for months, on act... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Google, which can already feel like an appendage to our brains, is now predicting what people are thinking before they even type. On Wednesday, Google introduced Google... Read more
ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course... Read more
