About halfway through a particularly tense game of Go held in Seoul, South Korea, between Lee Sedol, one of the best players of all time, and AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence created by Google, the AI program made a mysterious move that demonstrated an…

The proverb “absence makes the heart grow fonder” describes the feeling of greater affection between friends and lovers who are kept apart. It is a phrase that, in on one form or another, can be traced back for millennia—the Roman poet Sextus is credited…

The U.S. tech giants are keen to provide Web connections—but can a new scheme from the social network help it recover from its Free Basics blunder?

Deriving financial insights from satellite images isn’t a new idea, but TellusLabs is putting a twist on it. The Boston startup analyzes satellite imagery from NASA as well as weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and seasonal…

A small black device about the size of a pizza box could be the future of financial trading. Australian company Metamako’s network switch is able to route incoming information through to trading servers in just four nanoseconds, and can lower the time it…

China’s epic solar binge accelerated in the first six months of 2016, as the country added more than 20 gigawatts of new solar installations. That’s nearly three times as much as the same period last year, and is more than the total installed capacity of…

Earlier this year, Nervana Systems CEO Naveen Rao was asked what would happen if Intel began attacking the fast-growing market for chips designed specifically for running “deep learning” software. “They would be unstoppable,” he said. Now, Rao will be a key…

Using Facebook is a trade. You get a way to socialize over the Internet, and the company gets to rent out your eyeballs to advertisers. But today Facebook signaled that it thinks millions of people are cheating on that deal by using ad-blocking browser extensions.…

What will it take to get a robot to clean your home so you don’t have to do it? In June, Elon Musk announced that developing software to turn an off-the-shelf robot into a household cleaner is a primary goal of his OpenAI robotics institute. Such a machine…