Nanomaterials are increasingly being used for a range of applications, but their usage for artificial intelligence is complicated due to the unpredictability of their behavior. […]

Machine vision has come on an awful lot in recent years, and I’ve covered a number of the innovations that have helped that march.  For […]

Moneyball famously highlighted the potential of data to propel sports teams towards success.  The story of the Oakland Raiders is one of prodigious use of […]

Fingerprints have been used as evidence in criminal trials for over 100 years now, with the first case in the United States taking place in […]

Despite considerable advances in our understanding of the brain, our knowledge remains somewhat patchy, not least in our ability to conceive how the brain manages […]

Over the years I’ve written a number of times about the increasingly recombinative nature of innovation.  This posits that new innovations are often a combination […]

Earlier this year I looked at a fascinating Yale project that used artificial intelligence to help tackle HIV.  The work, which was documented in a […]

We discuss the trends and issues we observed during the weeks that include August 25-September 5 as we flipped resources into our Flipboard magazine (http://bit.ly/trendsandissues). […]

Computers have become increasingly potent at identifying and understanding images in recent years.  For instance, last year a paper was released highlighting how computers are […]

AI has been doing an increasingly impressive array of things in healthcare in recent years, but one of the more interesting applications has been around […]

Concussion has been headline news in recent months as a number of rugby players have suffered repeated blows to the head whilst on the pitch.  […]

The potential of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence to analyze increasingly available genomic data is significant.  A good example of where we’re currently at comes via […]