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Due to high structural costs, Europe is in danger of losing a large part of its industrial production through emigration. Why companies need to reposition themselves in order to produce more individually, flexibly and demand-oriented. Mr. Vollrath, must the keyword...

More than 11,000 scientists in 153 nations have endorsed a newly published statement on climate change — and it’s extremely gloomy. “The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected,” the authors wrote. “It is more...

In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 goals for a better world by 2030. These goals have the power to end poverty, fight inequality and address the urgency of climate change. Everyone can contribute to making sure the Global Goals...

Better coding, not just laws and regulations, is the solution for tech’s failure to address the needs of actual humans. Calls for stronger government regulation of large technology companies have become increasingly urgent and ubiquitous. But many of the technology...

In a speech late last month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared blockchain “an important breakthrough,” and promised that China would “seize the opportunity.” He detailed the ways the Chinese government would support blockchain research, development, and standardization.  The significance shouldn’t be...

A new test to check if a quantum computer is giving correct answers to questions beyond the scope of traditional computing could help the first quantum computer that can outperform a classical computer to be realized. By creating a protocol...

The immense capabilities artificial intelligence is bringing to the world would have been inconceivable to past generations. But even as we marvel at the incredible power these new technologies afford, we’re faced with complex and urgent questions about the balance...

A woman sits at a computer, video chatting with her young son while she gently pats an interface on a separate screen. In response, a wireless patch on the child’s back vibrates in a pattern that matches his mother’s fingers,...

There’s much robots can achieve by observing human demonstrations, like the actions necessary to move a box of crackers from a counter to storage. But imitation learning is by no means a perfect science — demonstrators often complete subgoals that...

Leaders in artificial intelligence warn that progress is slowing, big challenges remain, and simply throwing more computers at a problem isn’t sustainable. More than 13,000 artificial intelligence experts visited the Vancouver world’s leading academic AI conference, NeurIPS. One of Google’s top researchers gave...