Team Germany demonstrates an open-source self-driving research platform, paving the way for academic self-driving research that would later…

Apple launches the iPhone 5S with Touch ID, bringing fingerprint biometrics to mainstream consumers and introducing the first 64-bit mobile…

Magnetic levitation uses magnetic pressure to counteract gravity. Maglev trains, spinning levitrons, and laboratory quantum-locking…

Box by Bot & Dolly — a short film exploring the synthesis of real and digital space through robot-controlled projection-mapping on moving…

Google quietly acquires London-based DeepMind Technologies for over $500M. DeepMind would go on to produce AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and the…

Google announces the acquisition of Nest Labs for $3.2B, signaling the mass-market arrival of machine-learning-driven smart home devices.

Facebook buys Oculus for $2B, placing a generational bet on virtual reality and setting the stage for the metaverse push years later.

Ian Goodfellow invents Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The paper sparks an explosion in generative AI research that leads directly…

IBM forms a dedicated Watson business unit with a $1B investment. Enterprise-grade AI platforms begin to emerge, targeting healthcare,…

Amazon announces the Echo smart speaker with the Alexa voice assistant. The device pioneers the always-on, always-listening home AI…

A chatbot simulating a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman allegedly passes a variant of the Turing Test at a University of…

SpaceX makes visible progress on Grasshopper reusable-rocket tests, the precursor to the first orbital-stage landing. Reusable space launch…