The study shows that for decades automation has been adopted primarily to streamline structured and repetitive work. In sectors such as accounting, logistics, insurance and back-office administration, ...

Forward-looking: With artificial intelligence making huge advancements over the last few months, what's the next step toward humanity's cyberpunk-like dystopian future? According to scientists, it ...

Debates about artificial intelligence miss a crucial point: the real issue is not whether AI is powerful, but whether we use ...

Anduril has seized the lead on the Army’s IVAS headset program, putting the eight-year-old company in charge of one of the military’s most important soldier-enhancement programs, and poising it to ...

Every year, as hundreds of Harvard students dutifully shuffle through Economics and Computer Science department requirements in hopes of an approving scribble on their degree, a few eccentrics design ...

A placebo effect can make users overconfident when they think tech is helping them. A new study suggests that a placebo effect is at play when people expect their performance to be enhanced by ...

University of Surrey provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Neil Harbisson is the world’s first officially recognised human cyborg, having had a device installed in his head to ...

Dani Clode explores the potential of the human body to morph, adapt, and perform novel functions. Based at the University of Cambridge, she is, in her words, “an augmentation designer exploring the ...