In the summer of 1907, a German doctor named Clemens von Pirquet noticed something strange with one of his patients. The five-year-old boy had previously tested positive for tuberculosis. The test involved injecting a tiny bit of TB protein just under the skin. His antibodies recognized it, activating immune cells which formed a little bump…

We’re flying about 5,000 feet above rural New York in a Cirrus Vision Jet when the pilot has what appears to be a heart attack. He lets go of the controls and slumps forward in his seat, leaving me—not a pilot—to fly the airplane to safety. I reach behind me, press a big red button…

The Pentagon says artificial intelligence will help the US military become still more powerful. On Thursday, an advisory group including executives from Google, Microsoft, and Facebook proposed ethical guidelines to prevent military AI from going off the rails.The advice came from the Defense Innovation Board, created under the Obama administration to help the Pentagon tap…

Paidy, a Japanese financial tech startup that provides instant credit to consumers in Japan, announced today that it has raised a total of $143 million in new financing. This includes…

Microsoft's Surface brand offers some of the best Windows hardware on the market. Best known for the innovative, tablet-like hardware designs, Microsoft has expanded over the years and now offers a full family of computers, from a standard laptop to a giant desktop.Microsoft was an early innovator in mobile-friendly hybrid PC hardware. It's hard to…

Just around 9:45 a.m. Pacific Time on February 28, 2017, websites like Slack, Business Insider, Quora and other well-known destinations became inaccessible. For millions of people, the internet itself seemed…

I recently stayed in a cheap hotel in San Diego, using room 417 as an office while I was in town. After a few days, I happened to look into the trash can next to the desk and saw almost nothing in there but a couple handfuls' worth of spent Keurig pods that would soon…

Using a computer and modern software can be a chore to begin with for the visually impaired, but fundamentally visual tasks like 3D design are even harder. This Stanford team…

The world of phone-based AR has involved a lot of promises, but the future that’s developed has so far been more iterative and less platform shift-y. For startups exclusively focused…

Kepler Communications, the Toronto-based startup that’s focused on developing and deploying shoebox-sized satellites to provide telecommunications services, is opening up registration for those interested in getting their first developer kits.…