Jul 13 Watch 8:36 Telemedicine puts a doctor virtually at your bedside By PBS News Hour Video conferencing technology can now connect patients and physicians almost instantaneously, offering convenience, efficiency and savings. But what happens to the doctor-patient relationship if you're never in the same room? Hari Sreenivasan reports. Continue watching
May 22 3 white collar jobs that robots are already mastering By Joanne Elgart Jennings Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen plenty of blue collar jobs outsourced to machines — from auto assembly to customer service. Now, as computers, equipped with artificial intelligence, increasingly take over “information jobs,” tasks that were once reserved for… Continue reading
May 20 Watch 8:15 Will your job get outsourced to a robot? By PBS News Hour It's not just basic tasks anymore: Computers can now do work once deemed possible only by humans. And in some cases, the computers are doing it better. In an economy driven increasingly by intelligent automation, which jobs will survive? Hari… Continue watching
May 12 Watch 7:21 Why we’re teaching computers to help treat cancer By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 08 Watch 9:03 How smart is today’s artificial intelligence? By PBS News Hour Artificial intelligence is creeping into our everyday lives through technology like check-scanning machines and GPS navigation. How far away are we from making intelligent machines that actually have minds of their own? Hari Sreenivasan reports on the ethical considerations of… Continue watching
Apr 24 Watch 5:36 How maps packed with data help scientists fight malaria By PBS News Hour High-tech maps may help researchers understand and predict disease outbreaks like malaria, an illness that kills between 600,000 and 1 million people each year. Scientists have begun using temperatures, rainfall patterns and other data to better target areas most at… Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch 6:49 How drinking water pipes can also deliver electric power By PBS News Hour Hydroelectricity -- using the flow of water to generate power -- has long been a small but key source of renewable energy. How can cities around the country better harness that potential? A startup in Portland, Oregon, has developed a… Continue watching
Apr 13 Watch 7:25 This cement alternative absorbs CO2 like a sponge By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 07 Watch 6:19 How simple tools can shave hours off food preparation in the developing world By PBS News Hour Kitchen convenience means something different for millions of small farmers in poor countries. A nonprofit in St. Paul creates simple, efficient tools that could save people hours of labor on tasks like threshing grain and shelling peanuts. Special correspondent Fred… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch 5:48 Armor-like shark skin may offer blueprint for defense against superbugs By PBS News Hour Do sharks offer a key to fighting deadly bacteria? The White House unveiled a new campaign Friday to contain drug-resistant bacteria known as “superbugs,” and one of the unlikely resources that researchers are turning to is shark skin. Hari Sreenivasan… Continue watching