With huge suites of data, we can extract plenty of signals where we know to look for them. Everything else? That’s where AI comes in. At the dawn of the 20th […]
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The Canadian professor takes issue with blocking free speech, but is he part of the problem?
Millions of people will watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup this week on TVs and computers. But new technology suggests the next World Cup might be watched through 3D holograms.
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The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
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The best hiring manager might just be the computer sitting on your desk, says AI expert Joanna Bryson.
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Like it or not, agreements made between hackers in Germany, Prague, and elsewhere could reconfigure the economy… and a frightening new world.
Nurturing several relationships at once can empower us to build a life so rich that when we lose one love among many, we don’t feel as if we’ve lost ‘everything.’
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been working for years to preserve the estimated 10,000 videos of nuclear bomb tests made by the U.S. government during the Cold War.
Think you make moral judgments objectively? Think again.
She’s not held back by other animals’ numeracy limitations.
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Artificial intelligence has so far replaced more menial labor, but could it one day soon come for the more analytical positions in the economy like writers and reporters? What will become of journalism?
Who would have thought that endlessly comparing your life to others would make you feel bad?
You can learn good design through these books. Most of which is avoiding bad design.
Artificial intelligence will soon be powerful enough to operate autonomously, how should we tell it to act? What kind of ethics should we teach it?
A set of new studies that used large-scale computer simulations found that life might be more common throughout other universes than previously thought.
Two tech titans can’t agree on the one thing that could come to define our times: A.I. What do they have to say on the matter?
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A primer on the amazing possibilities of mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality technology.
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Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can identify a musical genre just like a human would.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past even the limits of Hubble. One of the most profoundly remarkable properties about our atmosphere is that […]
The mathematician and codebreaker invented a water filter that only just got build recently. Could it make the ocean’s drinkable?
Are you a ‘Big-Endian’ or a ‘Little-Endian’? Swift’s satirical take on religious wars gave us the jargon to describe our different date and address formats.
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Ultra-low-power sensors carrying genetically engineered bacteria can detect gastric bleeding.