This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 14)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Learns a New Trick: Measuring Brain Cells
Robbie Gonzalez | Wired
“For three months, I spent three or four hours a day, five or...
Robot Cities: Three Urban Prototypes for Future Living
Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn’t so far removed from what I do...
How Will Merging Minds and Machines Change Our Conscious Experience?
One of the most exciting and frightening outcomes of technological advancement is the potential to merge our minds with machines. If achieved, this would...
MIT’s New Voiceless Interface Can Read the Words in Your Head
The way we interact with the technology in our lives is getting progressively more seamless. If typing terms or addresses into your phone wasn’t...
The Startup That Has to Kill You to Preserve Your Brain—Here’s...
Here’s something you don’t hear every day: for $10,000, an MIT-backed startup will preserve your brain right down to the synapse level. Within this...
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
This Memory Prosthesis Boosts Recall in Humans by Roughly 40 Percent
This one’s for the books: in a jaw-dropping study, a team just turned the human brain from a read-only memory device to a rewritable...
How Big Is the Gap Between ‘Ready Player One’ and Current VR Tech?
Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Ready Player One depicts a future where VR technology can transport people into a completely realistic alternate universe. But how close...
Can We Make a Musical Turing Test?
As artificial intelligence advances, we’re encountering the same old questions. How much of what we consider to be fundamentally human can be reduced to...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 7)
CYBERNETICS
A Brain-Boosting Prosthesis Moves From Rats to Humans
Robbie Gonzalez | WIRED
“Today, their proof-of-concept prosthetic lives outside a patient's head and connects to the brain...
Astronomers May Have Just Discovered a Dozen Black Holes in the Center of Our...
Astronomers first noticed an enigmatic object, dubbed “Sagittarius A*”, at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy in the 1960s—the earliest days of...
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