Maybe we’ll be able to answer our phones again after all. A cybersecurity expert is hopeful.
We in the Guild are not quite ready to break out the chilled sparkling cider and start dialing random numbers to celebrate… but Scientific American […]
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Mind-reading helmet used to detect porn in China.
Maybe a half-step beyond “I know it when I see it.” PC Gamer repeats reports of some strange technological applications allegedly being tested in China, […]
Social media makes people unhappy… but it doesn’t have to.
Scientific American takes a look at our online habits and finds we’re not making ourselves happy. The technology makes us lose track of time, disrupts […]
“Looty”: using NFTs to steal back looted African artworks, digitally.
Reuters describes the Looty Project as one man’s crusade to finance new artists in Nigeria and Benin by selling NFTs minted from 3D images of […]
Laugh, quantum computer, laugh… in IBM’s gum tree.
Popular Science discusses what could be IBM’s quantum breakthrough – a quantum processor named “Kookaburra” that’s set to start computing in 2025: Last year, IBM […]
The guy who took down North Korea’s internet.
Wired recently ran a fun story about one man making a difference – a cybersecurity guy named P4x, who noticed that state-sponsored North Korean hackers […]
Programming computers to find Antarctic meteorites.
Science magazine explains how that big southerly continent has become the best place to find meteorites, and how those ancient fallen rocks offer priceless clues […]
Gene Roddenberry’s autograph in bacterial DNA sold as an NFT, displayed at Art Basel.
The Verge has one of the most potentially confusing science stories in a while. Gene Roddenberry’s estate, they report, has rendered the Star Trek creator’s […]
Facebook’s fake, troll-farm Christians.
MIT Review has one for the “strange days” file. An internal 2019 report leaked by a Facebook analyst found that 19 of the 20 most […]
Science Art: Car 5400, where are you?, 1965.
This is an advertisement in the back of the May/June 1965 issue of Information Display, the journal of the Society for Information Display. It’s a […]
Social media a threat to humanity, warn biologists, ecologists, and other unlikely experts.
Recode echoes a warning published in PNAS and signed by 17 researchers in fields as disparate as climate science, biology, and philosophy. They’re convinced that […]
Picture your hand writing a message, and this brain-implant computer will type it.
I’ll just copy the Science News headline here and say “Brain implants turn imagined handwriting into text on a screen“: A 65-year-old man had two […]
SONG: Bang, You’re Misled
SONG: “Bang, You’re Misled” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Defense One, 2 Oct 2020, “Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May […]
Artificial intelligence is being programmed to spot disinformation – by the military.
Defense One reports on a new U.S. Air Force and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) program, using artificial intelligence to counter “information space” pollution – or, […]
Google, Facebook should be scared. Targeted ads shown to be less profitable than the old way.
Wired has a story that seems slightly obscure at first, but really strikes at the cornerstone of today’s internet. The main Dutch public broadcaster, Nederlandse […]