The future of warfare could be a lot more grisly than Ukraine
More than 1,200 miles from Kyiv, a battle is playing out over autonomous weapons. Experts say the stakes are even higher than the Russian invasion.
By Steven ZeitchikMarch 12, 2022Tech ads at the Super Bowl offered a shiny — or is it dark? — vision of the future
Depending on your point of view, the future the ads portrayed is either a great change to be excited about or one to greatly fear.
By Steven ZeitchikFebruary 14, 2022The NFL on display this Super Bowl will seem like a crypto-happy league. It’s anything but.
Despite what viewers will see advertised during the Super Bowl, the NFL has largely prohibited its teams from involvement with cryptocurrency, unlike the NBA.
By Steven ZeitchikFebruary 11, 2022- Perspective
This is what it feels like to attend a film festival in the metaverse
Attending the festival in virtual reality was surprisingly similar to being there in the real world.
By Steven ZeitchikFebruary 4, 2022 An electric-plane pioneer has a plan to transform package delivery. It might work.
A Vermont company hopes its electric plane, which can take off and land without a runway, will remake the way small packages are moved between warehouses.
By Steven ZeitchikJanuary 31, 2022The Winter Olympics could highlight China’s innovative — and troubling — efforts to control the weather
China has a long history of attempting to modify the weather.
By Steven ZeitchikJanuary 24, 2022Former Google scientist says the computers that run our lives exploit us — and he has a way to stop them
Searching for artificial intelligence that's more in touch with your emotions.
By Steven ZeitchikJanuary 17, 2022Futurist Amy Webb says babymaking could get crazy and the smartphone will die
The influential thinker has some bold ideas about genetic editing, modified foods and TikTok.
By Steven ZeitchikJanuary 10, 2022The battle to prevent another Jan. 6 features a new weapon: The algorithm
A year after the attack on the Capitol, data science is better than ever at predicting insurrections. But is it good enough?
By Steven ZeitchikJanuary 6, 2022Maybe 2022 should be the year we turn over decision-making to the AI
An increasingly popular idea is to outsource choices to algorithms, even New Year's resolutions. It doesn’t sound half bad.
By Steven ZeitchikDecember 31, 2021On a yacht off St. Barts, the future of covid testing is taking shape
Amid huge gaps in inventory and quality, several renegade companies are looking for a superior approach to the current tangled system.
By Steven ZeitchikDecember 24, 2021Is artificial intelligence about to transform the mammogram?
An MIT researcher has devised a radical technique: an AI that can predict breast cancer. But it’s a long climb from the lab to the real world.
By Steven ZeitchikDecember 21, 2021Drones could be enlisted to fight tornados and other climate disasters
There’s a growing push to send unmanned aerial vehicles to help during climate disasters like the Quad-state tornadoes. What exactly can they do?
By Steven ZeitchikDecember 17, 2021Soon when you walk down the street, 3-D creatures could try to sell you something
A new 3-D form of outdoor advertising is slowly taking hold. But experts warn of overload.
By Steven ZeitchikDecember 3, 2021We asked a computer program to imitate Gay Talese’s writing. Then we asked Talese what he thought.
What does one of the most famous journalists of the 20th century think of GPT3?
By Steven ZeitchikNovember 26, 2021All this money pouring into infrastructure should be a boon for high-speed rail, right? Not so fast.
The transit innovation’s time may come. It just will be a bumpy road to get there.
By Steven ZeitchikNovember 19, 2021A Utah company says it revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical.
A Utah company claims it has discovered a way to tell if a person is lying by tracking their eye movements. Many are skeptical.
By Steven ZeitchikNovember 15, 2021COP26 is bringing many calls for action. Some are already taking action.
A roundup of some of the innovative ideas that are being suggested to combat climate change.
By Steven ZeitchikNovember 6, 2021What will the world look like when you can be whoever you want in the metaverse?
For all the skepticism Mark Zuckerberg's discussion of the metaverse last week, many Internet visionaries see it as a potential grand result whose benefits and drawbacks should not be ignored.
By Steven ZeitchikNovember 5, 2021Nine years after she died, Whitney Houston is back to entertain you
The show shatters the norms of techno-illusion: A two-minute deep fake is one thing. The dead dancing for us is another.
By Steven ZeitchikOctober 29, 2021