Search results for

After years of petitioning the UN to take action against weaponized AI, the Future of Life Institute has now taken matters into its own hands, with thousands of AI researchers, engineers and companies pledging not to develop or support the development of autonomous killing machines in any way.

This tiny, cheap electric nakedbike is sure to win a lot of hearts. The City Slicker's humble aim is to knock off the daily commute on battery power, at a price that makes it a no-brainer. That price is US$1,995, which will give you a realistic city range somewhere around 40 miles.

Those who follow the Ducati faith are known as Ducatisti.​ The most faithful Ducatisti from across the globe perform a pilgrimage every two years to a spot near Rimini on Italy's Adriatic Riviera, and the event is known as World Ducati Week (WDW).​ This is our story in pictures of WDW 2018.

Cohesion Studio recently completed the Folly, an attractive rusted retreat that takes its place very well in the rugged desert landscape of Joshua Tree, California. It runs off-the-grid and features a bedroom with a removed roof section that lets visitors fall asleep beneath the night sky.

A study from scientists at Rockefeller University has shed new light on a deep brain mechanism that can stimulate awareness and cognition. The research homes in on a collection of giant neurons in the brain that seem to be able to modulate stimulation of the entire central nervous system.

A huge lake of liquid water has been found on Mars. The groundbreaking discovery marks the first time a significant amount of the life-giving liquid has been detected. Discovered through satellite radar readings, the lake lies beneath the ice caps at the south pole of Mars.

Toshiba Memory America has launched a new range of NVM express solid state drives, the first to be based on the company's 96-layer 3D flash memory. The company says that it's aiming its XG6 series at client computer, high performance mobile, embedded, gaming and data center systems.

Is Mars too dry support life? To find out, NASA sent a team from the Ames Research Center to the Atacama Desert in Chile to identify the limit is that divides the point where microorganisms can live, and where the best they can hope for is very temporary survival, and where Mars lands on this scale.

New research is pointing to the liver as a potential culprit in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. It suggests that a compound produced in the liver can confer neurocognitive protections, and when the liver cannot effectively produce those compounds then cognitive deficits can result in the brain.

The story of how humans spread across the globe is constantly being rewritten. Dating back to about 13,000 years ago, the “Clovis culture” was long thought to be the earliest humans in North America. Now archaeologists have uncovered stone tools in Texas that could be as old as 20,000 years.

​Pre-sale registrations are now open for the Manta5, a Kiwi-built, 400-watt hydrofoiling e-bike that lets you ride effortlessly on water like a life-jacketed, 2,000-year-old Jewish carpenter on a fitness kick.

Tiny houses come small and, well, less small, and French purveyor of teeny towable homes Baluchon tends to focus on the former. But its latest creation does cut a slightly larger figure than its other offerings thanks to a pent roof that extends out beyond the trailer.