Hard Tech

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Ian Brooke wants to revolutionize flight as we know it

This Y Combinator-backed startup has invented a new kind of jet engine, radically more efficient and versatile than anything before it.

Ross Pomeroy

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Batteries

Solid-state batteries are finally making their way out of the lab

Solid-state batteries could soon challenge lithium-ion as the dominant tech for powering smartphones, EVs, and more.

Kristin Houser

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Employment

“Cybersecurity shortage” could reach 85 million workers by 2030

The global talent shortage could reach 85 million workers by 2030, causing approximately $8.5 trillion in unrealized annual revenue.

Michelle Meineke | Senior Writer | World Economic Forum

How to protect our future (when AI gets too smart)

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The future of AI looks promising, but it doesn’t come without risks. How can we keep the technology in check, before it outsmarts us?

Doug Dais

Robotics

Robot dogs are being deployed at a US military base

Four robot dogs are heading to a Florida Air Force base to serve as security patrol, marking the U.S. military’s first full-time deployment of a robot dog.

Kristin Houser

Heads up display lets firefighters see through smoke

Qwake Technologies’ C-Thru is a heads up display that combines AI, augmented reality, and thermal imaging to help firefighters battle blazes.

Kristin Houser

AI navigation system teaches itself to steer internet balloons

Loon is using a new AI navigation system trained via reinforcement learning to control its fleet of internet-beaming balloons in Kenya.

Kristin Houser

MIT built an AI to design robots

MIT has developed an AI capable of robot design — all you need to do is tell RoboGrammar the bot’s goal and the available body parts.

Kristin Houser

Food

Cultured meat gets first greenlight for sale

In a world’s first, Singapore has approved the sale of cultured meat, a major win for the meat alternatives industry.

Kristin Houser

Ai discovers billions of new trees from space

Researchers are using artificial intelligence and a supercomputer to count all the trees on the planet, via imaging from space.

Teresa Carey

Computer Science

Scientists create modem for future quantum internet

Physicists have created a modem for the quantum internet of the future, giving powerful quantum computers a way to share information.

Kristin Houser

Clean Energy

Brewery is world’s first factory fueled by iron powder

A Dutch brewery is using iron powder to generate clean energy, marking the first industrial use of iron fuel.

Kristin Houser

Transportation

Digital car windows could make your city safer

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In partnership with Ford

What if parked cars didn’t just take up space? Ford is designing the future of cars, starting with the purpose they serve when nobody’s driving.

Doug Dais

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