Author: azhar

Imagine driving down the interstate past an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer. Its driver’s hands aren’t touching the wheel. This story is part of our March/April 2017 issue See the rest of the …

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Early last year, a computer achieved world-class performance in the game Go—years before most people believed such a feat would be possible. This story is part of our March/April 2017 …

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Brevan Jorgenson’s grandma kept her cool when he took her for a nighttime spin in the Honda Civic he’s modified to drive itself on the highway. A homemade device in …

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This robot, called Darwin, helps people with their physical therapy. A young girl in Atlanta manages the symptoms of cerebral palsy with regular physical therapy, which normally means a visit …

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What goes up, must … then drop a parcel from a great height. That’s apparently what engineers at Amazon think could happen with its much-touted delivery drones. While the e-commerce giant has …

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An app developed by Gamalon recognizes objects after seeing a few examples. A learning program recognizes simpler concepts such as lines and rectangles. Machine learning is becoming extremely powerful, but …

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Apple’s voice assistant, Siri. Try holding even a short conversation with Siri, Cortana, or Alexa and you may end up banging your head against the nearest wall in frustration. Voice …

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A roundup of the most interesting papers from the arXiv: Discovery and Physical Characterization of a Large Scattered Disk Object at 92 AU Urban Attractors: Discovering Patterns in Regions of Attraction in …

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