When it comes to brain computing, timing is everything. It’s how neurons wire up into circuits. It’s how these circuits process highly complex data,...
AI research wunderkind, DeepMind, has long been all fun and games.
The London-based organization, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has used deep learning to...
COMPUTING
Hologram-in-a-Box Can Teleport You Anywhere
John Boyd | IEEE Spectrum
"ARHT Media, based in Toronto, Canada, and PORTL Inc., a start-up in Los Angeles, have begun shipping...
Self-driving cars are taking longer to become a reality than many experts predicted. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t steady progress being made; on...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Are We on the Verge of Chatting With Whales?
Christoph Droesser | Hakai Magazine
"An ambitious project is attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with...
What secret alchemical knowledge could be so important it required sophisticated encryption?
The setting was Amsterdam, 2019. A conference organized by the Society for the...
The deep learning neural networks at the heart of modern artificial intelligence are often described as “black boxes” whose inner workings are inscrutable. But...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
" smaller and faster, but they’re still boxes with processors that...
Thanks to the advance of deepfake technology, it’s becoming easier to clone peoples’ voices. Some uses of the tech, like creating voice-overs to fill...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Facebook Is Researching AI Systems That See, Hear, and Remember Everything You Do
James Vincent | The Verge
" imagines AI systems that are constantly...
NEUROSCIENCE
How the World's Biggest Brain Maps Could Transform Neuroscience
Alison Abbott | Nature
"To truly understand how the brain works, neuroscientists also need to know how...
Understanding cancer is like assembling IKEA furniture.
Hear me out. Both start with individual pieces that make up the final product. For a cabinet, it’s...
Using computer simulations to design new chips played a crucial role in the rapid improvements in processor performance we’ve experienced in recent decades. Now...
With the right computer program, proteins become pleasant music.
There are many surprising analogies between proteins, the basic building blocks of life, and musical notation....
ROBOTICS
How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot
Tom Chivers | IEEE Spectrum
"Having conquered Go and protein folding, the company turns to a really hard problem. ...To...
The TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced millions of people to the idea of a holodeck: an immersive, realistic 3D holographic projection...
Climate change is wreaking havoc on land via extreme weather events like wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and record-high temperatures. Glaciers are melting and sea levels...
Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms, and breed plants and animals. But humans don’t just reshape our external...
COMPUTING
Amazing Airborne Microchips Are the Tiniest Human-Built Objects to Take Flight
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo
"Called 'microfliers,' the tiny devices ride the breeze while falling and...
