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Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.

Air currents in our atmosphere limit the resolving power of giant telescopes, but computers and artificial stars can sharpen the blur.

Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.

They could also “turn off” their fear.

If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.

One of Apple’s key innovations serves as a psychological breakthrough, as its technology eliminates the isolating feel of headset use.

The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.

In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.

Surely they can’t be worse…can they?

Some analysts predict that Amazon’s revenue will double over the next five years.

Galaxies don’t simply feed their central supermassive black holes, but the activity generated inside affects the entire galaxy and more.

He peppers his sentences with words like “neat” and “cool,” he’s not great at working the room after dinner — oh, and he’s a peerless visionary.

Giving speech to the speechless.

There may be unknown particles lurking inside the quantum foam.

The future belongs to complexity.

Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that “remembers” information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.

The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.

Just eight of Etched’s Sohu chips could replace 160 Nvidia GPUs.

No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.

To hallucinate means you must first perceive.

AI helped create films like “Jurassic Park” and “A.I.”, so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn’t worry about losing their jobs.

Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.

A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”

Is science close to explaining everything about our Universe? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder reacts.

What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?

The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.

Smart glasses have flopped before. AI could finally make them mainstream.