Google's DeepMind AI to use 1 million NHS eye scans to spot diseases earlier

The five-year research project will draw on one million anonymous eye scans which are held on Moorfields’ patient database, with the aim to speed up the complex and time-consuming process of analysing eye scans.

Smallest hard disk to date writes information atom by atom

Every day, modern society creates more than a billion gigabytes of new data. To store all this data, it is increasingly important that each single bit occupies as little space as possible. A team of scientists managed to bring this reduction to the ultimate limit.

Aether 3D Bioprinter - Bioprinting Bone with Graphene and Stem Cells

Aether 1 3D Bioprinter prototype unit shown. Aether 1 beta units are set to be released summer 2016.

Pokemon Go Is a Glimpse of Our Augmented Reality Future

Pokémon Go turns everything we know about gaming on its head. It’s a massively multiplayer real life videogame. RL games have the power to take our beloved stories and franchises and bring them to life. Not only that, they can add a sense of depth, awareness, and somewhat ironically, mindfulness about the real world.

A Remote Controlled Cyborg Stingray Now Exists

So there's now such a thing as a cyborg stingray, a tiny mimic of the real thing that uses living tissues to get around — way cooler than those boring old robot stingrays.

Hyperloop Connecting Helsinki and Stockholm Turns 300-Mile Trip Into 28 Minute Ride

A hyperproposed application for the Hyperloop announced today could solve a transportation conundrum that has been challenging planners for centuries: Connecting the neighboring nations of Sweden and Finland.

Smart Dust Is Coming: New Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Miniaturization is one of the most world-shaking trends of the last several decades. Computer chips now have features measured in billionths of a meter. Sensors that once weighed kilograms fit inside your smartphone. But it doesn't end there.

World's Largest Plane Will Launch Rockets into Space

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has an alternative idea about how to pave a commercial highway to space.

Sunway Taihulight named world's fastest supercomputer

Sunway Taihulight has been named the world's fastest supercomputer, with a processing speed exceeding 100 petaflops per second. Its calculation capacity in one minute equals 32 years of calculations by a billion people using calculators.

Quantum computer makes first high-energy physics simulation

Physicists have performed the first full simulation of a high-energy physics experiment — the creation of pairs of particles and their antiparticles — on a quantum computer.

How virtual reality will change the face of cinema

It might seem a sensationalist claim, but with the advent of virtual reality we could be on the brink of the biggest change to the way we watch films in over a century.

Future iPhones may have wraparound glass, augmented reality apps

Apple could be planning to develop an iPhone that features a curved wrap-around display and the ability to run augmented reality apps. The company was awarded a patent for the technology on Tuesday, indicating its interest in the area.

5G Mobile Gets One Step Closer to Reality

Fiber-fast wireless will make video chatting buffering-free and advance self-driving car technologies.

World's first 1,000-processor chip

A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed. The energy-efficient "KiloCore" chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.

New "Artificial Synapses" Could Let Supercomputers Mimic the Human Brain

Brain-like machines with human-like abilities to solve problems could become a reality, researchers say.