CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday compared the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence models to ...

During my recent participation in Geneva Science Diplomacy Week, organized by the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), I was reminded that one of the greatest challenges facing ...

A former Harvard chemistry professor convicted in the United States for concealing ties to a Chinese talent program is now leading a state-backed brain-computer interface laboratory in Shenzhen, ...

Science fiction has long imagined a world where our brains interact with machines to restore and augment our abilities—think of the neural implants that connected to Geordi La Forge’s visor in Star ...

Scorpions are armed with dual front pincers (technically known as chelae or pedipalp appendages) and a venom-injecting telson, or stinger, on the posterior of their tail. These things look dangerous ...

As the White House boasts that the US is now using futuristic military weapons never seen before, details about America's attempt to merge soldiers and machines have been uncovered. The Defense ...

For the last dozen years, international efforts to establish regulations for autonomous weapons have traced a series of widening circles. Within the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), ...

One of the most distinctive features of the U.S. military’s high-energy laser weapon of choice isn’t the system itself—it’s how operators control it. The logic of embracing the handset simple: If the ...

The brain-computer interface (BCI) field is advancing rapidly—faster than the average person can keep up with. As the technology progresses, Wall Street is also turning its attention toward areas of ...

A Chinese team reported a breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology in Beijing. Researchers used implanted electrodes to precisely localize deep-seated brain tumor boundaries. The trial ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...