The robot surgeon will see you now
Using many of the same technologies that underpin self-driving cars, autonomous drones and warehouse robots, researchers are working to automate surgical robots too.
Microsoft to buy Nuance for $16 billion to focus on health care tech
Microsoft said that it would buy Nuance Communications, a provider of artificial-intelligence and speech-recognition software, for about $16 billion, as it pushes to expand its...
Turing Award goes to creators of computer programming building blocks
Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman will receive this year’s Turing Award, sometimes described as the Nobel Prize of computing, for their work on the fundamental...
Away from Silicon Valley, the military is the ideal customer
A number of tech companies, many of them far from Silicon Valley, are shrugging off the concerns about the potential militarization of their creations that...
Here’s a way to learn if facial recognition systems used your photos
An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research —including a...
When startups go into the garage (or sometimes the living room)
Designing and creating new technology have become far more difficult in the pandemic. When the pandemic hit, many Silicon Valley startup engineers moved their gear...
Frances Allen, who helped hardware understand software, dies at 88
Frances Allen, a computer scientist and researcher who helped create the fundamental ideas that allow practically anyone to build fast, efficient and useful software for...
William English, who helped build the computer mouse, dies at 91
The engineer and researcher who helped build the first computer mouse and, in 1968, orchestrated an elaborate demonstration of the technology that foretold the computers,...
Riding out the coronavirus quarantine with a chatbot friend: ‘I feel very connected’
When the coronavirus pandemic reached her neighborhood on the outskirts of Houston, infecting her garbage man and sending everyone else into quarantine, Libby Francola was...
This was supposed to be the year driverless cars went mainstream. Then the coronavirus happened.
SAN FRANCISCO — Tech companies once promised that fully functional, self-driving cars would be on the road by 2020 and on the path to remaking...