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Computer scientist Peter J. Denning argues that Alan Turing’s foundational proposals inadvertently led AI research astray, as the quest for…

More than 460 million tonnes of plastic are produced annually, and traditional disposal methods like incineration and landfills are inefficient…

Naked mole-rats live in eusocial colonies where only one female, the queen, reproduces, a system previously thought exclusive to insects…

Drake "Styropyro" Anthony's latest video demonstrates capturing lightning in a bottle by combining mercury, neon gas, and a Tesla coil…

GPUs, originally designed for graphics rendering, have become the foundation of modern AI, enabling parallel processing that powers neural network…

Dr. Jill Lepore’s new book, "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State", argues that systemic measurement and data collection…

As climate change creates warmer, wetter conditions, mosquitoes like the Asian tiger mosquito are expanding their geographic ranges into historically…

Neil Rimer, co-founder of Index Ventures, publicly stated his belief that the enormous wealth accumulating around AI will inevitably lead…

Many period tracking apps quietly share sensitive health data, such as fertility information and sexual activity, with third-party analytics firms,…

BrainCo demonstrated a brain-controlled robot arm at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, where a user wearing an EEG headset…

Climate attribution science, which determines if specific extreme weather events were made more likely by climate change, has matured significantly…

Researchers restored movement and touch in a paralyzed man using a "double neural bypass" that combines a brain-computer interface, AI,…

Most planets originally had hydrogen-helium atmospheres, but over billions of years these can be lost or transformed into secondary atmospheres,…

The "Jurassic Park" film's tech accuracy is surprisingly authentic, with the production team going to great lengths to depict realistic…

Former Red Bull Racing aerodynamicist Bercan Kilic founded microagi, which raised a record $55 million seed round led by Humblinbird…

Enterprise software value depends not on features but on operational consequence,how deeply a platform becomes embedded in an organization's workflows,…

The new book "Inventing ELIZA" corrects the historical record by presenting the actual source code from the MIT Archives, revealing…

A broken circuit breaker switch on the Apollo 11 lunar module threatened to strand astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin…

In 1995, Sega invested $5 million in Nvidia when the company was on the brink of bankruptcy, a lifeline that…

Ghost Font is an experimental typography project by designer Eric Lu that uses moving dots to create hidden letters visible…