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""It marks an exciting moment for the field," said Demis Hassabis, DeepMind's founder and chief executive. "These algorithms are now becoming mature enough and powerful enough to be applicable to really challenging scientific problems." Advertisement Venki Ramakrishnan, the president of the Royal Society, called the work "a stunning advance" that had occurred "decades before many people in the field would have predicted"."

"Although we think we're doing several things at once, multitasking, this is a powerful and diabolical illusion. Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT and one of the world experts on divided attention, says that our brains are "not wired to multitask well… When people think they're multitasking, they're actually just switching from one task to another very rapidly. "

Never trust your software too much these days, for the sake of your brain.

Energy storage has seen a new innovation from A123 Systems.

Car crashes could soon be eradicated, unless it happens to be the car's fault instead.

Every technological impact has a positive and negative side, apparently.

'Robotic skin' could revolutionize prosthetic limbs in the future...