Science & Tech

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) holds an expert briefing on the results of a 20-month investigation into the innovative capabilities of Chinese firms in key advanced industries, such as robotics, chemicals, nuclear power, electric vehicles, semiconductors, AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology. How close is China to reaching the cutting edge of scientific and technological […]

A study published in the journal “Scientific Reports” on Tuesday says a major asteroid may have crashed into Jupiter’s moon Ganymede roughly four billion years ago, causing its axis to shift. Some astronomers say that’s why there’s a pattern of concentric circles on Ganymede’s surface.

NASA holds a news conference at 12 p.m. ET on Sept. 4 in Houston, Texas, ahead of the Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft’s return to Earth, which is scheduled to undock from the ISS on Friday at 6:04 p.m. ET and land on Earth six hours later at 12:03 a.m. Saturday. Its crew, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore […]

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Tracy Dyson perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 7:30 a.m. ET on July 2.

Japan’s space agency JAXA launches its third H3 flagship rocket carrying $200 million radar satellite ALOS-4 at 12 p.m. JST on July 1 (11 p.m. ET on June 30) at Tanegashima in Japan, a reattempt after the first H3 flight last year resulted in manual destruction and loss of another state-funded satellite.

A moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines arrives at the moon on a mission to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half-century and the first by a private company.  

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts participate in a media briefing ahead of the next launch to the International Space Station. The briefing will be held at 2:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 25.

In Chicago, Tesla and electric vehicle (EV) owners face challenges charging their vehicles in the extreme cold despite significant investments by the nation’s energy and transportation departments in building charging stations nationwide. Keep in mind that President Joe Biden aims for half of all new vehicle sales to be electric by 2030. NTD interviewed Ronald […]

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, and Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg take part in a discussion on how AI is changing geopolitics at 11:30 a.m. ET on Jan. 18.

The world’s largest tech show, Consumer Electronics Show 2024, opens to the public in Las Vegas at 1:00 p.m. on Jan. 9.

L’Oréal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus delivers the first keynote from a beauty company at CES 2024 at 12:00 p.m. on Jan. 9.

President Joe Biden has issued an executive order to rein in artificial intelligence—but will the measures go far enough? The founder of DarkBox Security Systems, Andrew Sternke, has called on Congress to pass “comprehensive transparency legislation that extends to all the various AI entities, including public disclosure, to foster broader accountability.”  

The AI safety summit, which aims to bring together governments and representatives of the industry from across the world, will begin at Bletchley Park. It’s set to focus on what the government calls frontier AI. NTD has more on the main risks that AI poses from a professor in security engineering, Ross Anderson.  

With AI becoming more present in everyone’s daily life, some people have noticed bias when interacting with popular language models, such as ChatGPT. NTD spoke with Phil Siegel, the Founder of Captrs, an AI company for simulation programming to address future threats, to dig deeper into the issue.  

Gannet, the parent company for USA Today and various other local newspapers, has been participating in an experiment where they let Artificial intelligence or AI, write sports articles. That project has reportedly been stopped after criticism from readers. For example, the dispatch reportedly published a story where the system didn’t correctly insert the mascot’s name […]

Research has found electronic car systems are at risk of being hacked. Christopher Balding, a surveillance expert and founder of the think tank “New Kite Data Labs,” said microphones or even brakes in electric cars are susceptible to being controlled remotely by China.  

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, nations are moving towards shaping global standards of AI regulation. But experts are concerned that if the AI is trained in a country with lower ethical standards, and then exported as a finished product, it could lead to serious problems down the line.