John Markoff

Squeezing more out of chips to cut artificial intelligence cost

Protecting humans and jobs from robots is 5 tech giants' goal

The Partnership on AI, unites Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft

How tech giants are devising real ethics for artificial intelligence

Now five of the world's largest tech companies are trying to create a standard of ethics around the creation of artificial intelligence

John Ellenby, visionary who helped create early laptop, dies at 75

John Markoff: Using virtual reality for corporate HQ

Demonstration of virtual reality has been an integral part of chip maker Nvidia's design and construction of its new building powered by its products

John Markoff: Tesla, Google take separate roads to self-driving car

While Tesla is already selling cars with some basic self-driving functions, Google is still in experimental mode

Planes without pilots

A software that reads images as humans do

Google and Stanford teams said that they expect to see significant increases in accuracy as they improve their software and train these programmes with larger sets of annotated image

Scientists consider repurposing robots to contain Ebola epidemic

Many of the countries experiencing the worst of the Ebola epidemic are in no position to deploy robots

'Beep,' says the bellboy

Aloft hotel to begin testing 'Botlr,' a robotic bellboy

Google's next phase in driverless cars: No brakes or steering wheel

The only things the driver controls is a red "e-stop" button for panic stops and a separate start button

Designing the next wave of computer chips

Industry pundits have been warning that the progress of the semiconductor industry is grinding to a halt.

BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, Atlas join Google's robot menagerie

Google buys Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon

Google puts money on robots, using the man behind Android

Over the last half-year, Google has quietly acquired seven technology companies in an effort to create a new generation of robots.

NSA may have tapped data on cables

The computer visionary who invented the Mouse

Douglas C Engelbart (Jan 30, 1925-Jul 3, 2013)

New research tools kick up dust in archives

'Made in the USA' is back as Google does a retro

Skilled work, without the worker

'Made in the USA' is back as Google does a retro