Notes from the Fog author Ben Marcus on Elon Musk, the weird existential joys of the reality TV show Castaways, and whether we will eat in the future.
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A new report from Bloomberg describes how Chinese subcontractors secretly inserted microchips into servers that wound up in data centers used by nearly 30 American companies.
Research shows that employers are working to find more talent in the blockchain space, and they’re willing to pay higher rates for it.
Some basic areas we could all use some improvement in.
Technology that enables telemedicine is set to change the medical field for patients, doctors, and investors.
It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
You get out what you put in, and we haven’t truly invested in space since Apollo ended. Humanity should be an interplanetary civilization by now. There is no scientific reason that […]
The legendary DARPA tests technology that lets soldiers control drones with their minds.
Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
“This is a great example of a forest restoration plan which is both good for the people and good for nature,” one researcher said.
We know a lot about what else is out there, but we still don’t know everything. In the quest for life in the Universe, it makes sense to look at […]
Also, don’t offer screen-time as a reward for good behavior.
Is consciousness just a showdown between your beliefs and perceptions?
The Seattle tech magnate died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Easter eggs have been hidden in video games since Atari’s Adventure; now Google search has hidden an entire adventure game.
The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.
The companies launching satellites aboard the SpaceX rocket hope to revolutionize the Internet of Things.
Researchers find an amazing amount of often-weird forms of life below the planet’s surface.
How much does cognitive bias change people’s perception? Well, the history of computing would be a lot different.
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China’s state-run news agency and the search engine company Sogou have developed an artificially intelligent news anchor that can read the news “tirelessly” 24 hours a day.
A team at MIT has discovered that human brains are capable of “seeing” ghost images hidden between groups of patterns captured by single-pixel cameras.
How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?
Most basic form of data, meet most basic form of matter.
Scientists have identified a new shape called the scutoid, and it helps explain the how cells in the body arrange themselves in tightly packed three-dimensional structures to form tissues.
Elite organizations tend to get conspiracy theorists going.
A star orbiting past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole offered a chance to test relativity as never before. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the […]
The Canadian professor’s old-school message is why many started listening to him.
A group affiliated with the Russian government has been found by Microsoft to have created at least six ‘spear phishing’ websites targeting U.S elections, and it’s certain there there will be more before November.
In Life After Google, George Gilder writes that we’re paying a heavy cost for “free.”