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How could we create a technology capable of replacing our own reality?
First of a 3-part series about future technologies and their role in human flourishing.
You can learn good design through these books. Most of which is avoiding bad design.
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Happy birthday to Pluto, discovered on this day in 1930. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was no more than a distant dot in our most powerful telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh’s original images […]
Scientists solve the mystery of an ancient Babylonian tablet, rewriting history. They think the tablet has much to teach us.
The same technique is used by crime scene investigators in the FBI.
This is what we’ve learned from first object ever discovered to enter our Solar System from interstellar space. Billions of years ago, our Solar System was an extraordinarily different place […]
Aurora 21 will help the US keep pace among the other nations who own the fastest supercomputers. Scientists plan on using it to map the connectome of the human brain.
For many years the concept of virtual worlds and far flung digital realities was the stuff of speculative fiction and philosophy. But it may soon take over the world.
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.
From a low-brow adolescent distraction to a sophisticated art form and educational tool, comic books are finally having their moment in the sun.
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The pool of things that “AI Can’t Do” appears to be steadily shrinking.
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But if a radical new idea comes to fruition, maybe we can find them after all. After decades of planning, building, prototyping, upgrading, and calibrating, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) […]
Today’s children and youth are very tech savvy and easily use tablets, laptops, and smartphones to access the Internet, play games and consume media. AR can put that on fast-forward.
Once a lucrative exercise anyone could do, bitcoin mining has grown out of control, and governments are weighing what to do.
What’s the difference between VR and AR? Find out what they are and what these emerging technologies are being used for around the world.
There’s something very special inside a proton and neutron that holds the key. There are few things in the Universe that are as easy to form, in theory, as black holes […]
A new study highlights how blockchain technology can be a game-changer in education.
As the Event Horizon Telescope prepares to release its first results, we can expect not just one, but two black hole images. What does a black hole actually look like? For […]
Can computers be creative? Depends on whether you’re asking it to write music or write a novel.
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In his latest book, Selfie, Will Storr explores the history of self-obsession, and wonders how we can fix it.
There’s nothing new, recent, or remarkable about it. It’s just a typical cosmic pebble in the galactic ocean. Last year, the interstellar interloper ʻOumuamua passed through the inner Solar System. Originally […]
One option was presented as the “future of how we’ll unlock our smartphones.”
It’s a fascinating idea, but how does it fare as a scientific theory? “Something is happening here and this is going to have an impact.” –Robert Dijkgraaf, on Verlinde’s work The […]
The sender didn’t have a name nor an address for his letter. So he drew a map instead.