Sascha Brodsky

New Scientist • 6th January 2023

AI could predict hurricanes or rogue waves from minimal data

Learning the significance of data points allows artificial intelligence models to make better predictions, which will help us tell when hurricanes or disease outbreaks are imminent

Lifewire • 8th November 2022

How Magnetic Tech Could Help Date the Past and Revolutionize Archaeology

Archaeologists are beginning to uncover the secrets of ancient civilizations thanks to high-tech magnetic techniques.

The New Lede • 29th June 2022

Crypto mining, controversy, and questions about environmental impacts

For decades, the Mechanicville hydroelectric plant generated power from New York’s Hudson River, converting the flowing waters into energy that fueled General Electric. But last year, the long brick building became the home of a crypto mining operation, forging a very different role as part of a vast network of sites around the world pumping out algorithms that make virtual currency viable.

Lifewire • 3rd June 2022

How VR Could Tap Into Your Brain

Your next virtual reality (VR) headset could interface with your brain.

Lifewire • 18th May 2022

Ultrathin Fuel Cells Could Use Your Body’s Sugar to Power Implants

Your own body could be a power source for future gadgets.

Lifewire • 13th May 2022

AI's Next Trick: Unlimited Fusion Power

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques may help bring us closer to practical fusion power that could transform the world’s energy industries.

Lifewire • 9th May 2022

AI Can Now Understand Your Videos by Watching Them

A new artificial intelligence system (AI) could watch and listen to your videos and label things that are happening.

Lifewire • 3rd May 2022

Your Hard Drive May One Day Use Diamonds for Storage

Diamonds may be the key to storing vast quantities of data.

Lifewire • 16th March 2022

Future Quantum Computers May Be Powered By Crystals

Physicists are exploiting the weird ways atoms interact with each other to build quantum computers.

Lifewire • 11th March 2022

One Day, We Might All Ditch Hard Drives for DNA Storage

You might one day be able to replace your hard drive with a storage device made out of DNA, and it could be a long-lasting way to store information. Researchers recently devised a method to expand DNA's data storage by artificially extending the DNA alphabet. It's part of a broad effort to use DNA to hold computer information. "DNA is 1 million times denser than the densest mainstream digital storage device," Luis Ceze, a computer science and engineering professor who studies DNA storage at th

Lifewire • 11th March 2022

AI Could Help You Understand Animal Speech

In a recent study, an international team of researchers has used artificial intelligence (AI) to translate pig grunts into emotions.

Lifewire • 4th March 2022

High-Tech Repellents Shoo Mosquitoes Away

Mosquitos kill more people than any other creature in the world, but help may be on the way in the form of high-tech repellents.

Lifewire • 4th March 2022

How AI Can Quickly Get People Home Safer

School bus drivers are in short supply these days, but AI-driven software could help.

Lifewire • 15th September 2021

How Neurochips Could Link Your Brain to a Computer

Technology that allows computers to read your thoughts may be getting a boost from new research.

Lifewire • 29th July 2021

How Satellite Images Could Improve Lives

A new way of using machine learning to examine satellite images could help people around the world.

Lifewire • 27th July 2021

How Flexible Chips Could Change Computing

Microchips might soon be so cheap and flexible that they could be printed onto milk bottles.

Lifewire • 21st July 2021

Why Building Brain-Computer Interfaces Is So Hard

The future was supposed to be all about hooking up computers to our brain.

Lifewire • 21st June 2021

How VR Could Show the Future of Climate Change

Virtual reality could transport you to a potential future where the earth’s climate has drastically changed.

Lifewire • 20th April 2021

How Smart Fabrics Could Turn Clothes Into Computers

Foldable smartphones have become a hot item, but scientists have come up with a new technology that could make current models look rigid by comparison.

Lifewire • 16th April 2021

Can AI Teach Us to Be More Human?

Imagine you’re working in a call center and a customer calls. You answer, and right away, things start going badly. The customer is angry, and tensions rise.