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Will actors have to compete against dead celebrities for roles? Given the advance in CGI (Computer Generated Images) and VFX (Special Effects), Hollywood’s desire for bankable stars, and estates looking for additional revenue, it is all possible.
For autonomous self-driving cars to truly take over, every road needs to be digitally mapped.
A study reveals the surprising pattern of pattern-completing connections in the hippocampus.
Unlike social media, email is especially seductive as its content is specific to you. Author Cal Newport offers tips for breaking free from this constant distraction.
They may look odd, but it’s all part of Google’s plan to solve a huge issue in machine learning: recognizing objects in images.
Hilarious examples that prove how correlation does not equal causality.
The Antipode may one day revolutionize your commute. It would be 10 times faster than the Concorde and take you across the ocean before you could finish an episode of The Simpsons.
You wouldn’t know it, but plants are constantly taking in information.
The strange origin of autocorrect during the development of an American secret Chinese computer.
A growing body of scientific investigation now supports the conclusion that being hopeful has a distinctly positive effect on academic performance.
Loop quantum gravity gets the ancient atomist back into the loop, showing how black holes might explode, and that the Big Bang might be a Big Bounce.
Gravitational waves and electromagnetic ones don’t need to go together. But physics says it’s possible; what do the observations say? “The black holes collide in complete darkness. None of the […]
Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the movement towards a shorter work week is not just a solution to inequality, but one also aimed at stabilizing the environment.
The study of science, without planned application, can lead to fascinating things in its own right.
Amoebas one-tenth the width of a human hair may someday help diffuse a bioterror attack.
What if we told you that, right now, your phone was making a map of your interior surroundings — whether you’re at work or at home — and sending that data to places unknown?
Are virtual assistants teaching children to be nasty?
Compelling evidence makes the case for both the Steppe and Anatolian Hypotheses.
Meet the Cornell scientist who figured out the link between fracking disposal wells and Oklahoma’s earthquakes.
The most impactful technology inventions in history are ranked.
Did they perform their analysis sub-optimally? Maybe. But gravitational waves were seen no matter what. “We hope that interested people will repeat our calculations and will make up their own minds […]
And if it were, is there any way we could detect that this were the case? “Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would […]
The popular concept of introversion often differs from how psychologists define the term, but a new model seeks to clarify exactly what being an introvert means.
The human mind is like a Turing machine, says Daniel Dennett. It’s made up of unthinking cogs – but when combined in the right order, their motion gives rise to consciousness.
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The average amount of eye contact adults make is 30-60% per conversation, 60-70% if they feel invested.
Pay your bills, slip through security, and take a train, all without fumbling through your wallet.
“No government is prepared,” The Economist reports.
Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers warns about an AI-dominated future world without consciousness at a recent conference on artificial intelligence that also included Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Demis Hassabis and others.
Last week, Cassini plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere. Here are the top 6 things we learned from it while it was alive. “Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the […]