Predictions

An AI-powered algorithm draws on judges' net worth, political affiliation and education to predict how successful a court case will be. It’s turned the art of seeking out a sympathetic judge, or judge shopping, into a precise science.

Britain's armed forces take a look into the future with young engineers predicting what the Royal Marines in 2050 will look like.

Anti-virus and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has released an esoteric collaborative art project that sets its sights on what the world will be like in 2050. Artists, futurists and scientists have been asked to contribute their predictions. Here's our favourite good, bad and weird ideas.

Exciting times are ahead in the high-tech industries with the discovery by three independent groups that a new class of materials mimic the special electronic properties of graphene in 3D.

The close of 2013 gives us an excellent opportunity, though satiated with holiday feasts, to look back on a year that has been filled with scientific accomplishment.

In addition to offering task automation and data filtering, SRI's bRight tries to predict the actions, behavior and needs of users based on previous activity and active monitoring systems.

Cornell University researchers are working on a robot that can anticipate a person's actions, enabling it to pour a beer without spilling a drop even if you move the glass.

IBM's "5-in-5" list for 2012 predicts the five sense-related technologies enabled by cognitive computing systems that will impact our lives in the next five years.

As part of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award in 1987, a group of science fiction luminaries put together a text “time capsule” of their predictions about life in the far off year of 2012.

A team at Bristol University has developed an equation to help predict which songs will be hits, and which ones will flop.