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 technical magazine for computer… Read the rest “Science Art: Car 5400, where are you?, 1965.”
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 the rapid rise … Read the rest “Social media a threat to humanity, warn biologists, ecologists, and other unlikely experts.”
I’ll just copy the Science News headline here and say “Brain implants turn imagined handwriting into text on a screen“:
… Read the rest “Picture your hand writing a message, and this brain-implant computer will type it.”A 65-year-old man had two grids of tiny electrodes
SONG: “Bang, You’re Misled”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Defense One, 2 Oct 2020, “Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May Find… Read the rest “SONG: Bang, You’re Misled”
Defense One reports on a new U.S. Air Force and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) program, using artificial intelligence to counter “information space” pollution –… Read the rest “Artificial intelligence is being programmed to spot disinformation – by the military.”
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 Publieke Omroep,… Read the rest “Google, Facebook should be scared. Targeted ads shown to be less profitable than the old way.”
Ireland’s RTÉ Brainstorm reveals how researchers are turning ordinary personal computers into a virus-killing supercomputer and recruiting gamers to solve puzzles that figure… Read the rest “Turning the virus into a videogame.”
Wired reveals a garment that doesn’t exactly make its wearer invisible, but makes it harder for an AI system – like those used in CCTV systems worldwide – to identify … Read the rest “This T-shirt conceals you from digital surveillance.”
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Wikimedia Commons’ description of this average-looking guy simply reads: The man in this image does not exist. This face was constructed by a GAN program.
The licensing… Read the rest “Science Art: StyleGAN2 Example 2, Jan 2020”
SONG: “In the Ring”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Scientific American, 4 May 2020, “A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room around It,” as used in… Read the rest “SONG: In the Ring”
Scientific American is doing a deep, multi-story dive on privacy issues, and this one’s a doozy. Researchers have used an irregularly shaped shiny object, like a metal bowl or a bag… Read the rest “How your snack bags can give you away.”
CNET (among others) has brought us news at the confluence of two contemporary concerns: Are we carrying germs we don’t know about? and … Just how private is *anything* we do … Read the rest “Stanford’s butt-reading toilet knows how healthy you are.”
Rather than the usual excerpt of recent research, I thought I’d start collecting some decent sources of info on the ongoing pandemic.
* Vetted and regularly updated numbers, best… Read the rest “COVID-19 Resource List”
The Guardian looks at the way Google Maps is changing the way we look at maps, and the way one artist is hacking Google Maps to make a point:
… Read the rest “An artist created a fake traffic jam with a wagonload of phones.”Simon Weckert’s artwork Google Maps Hacks involved
National Geographic goes (or went – this article is from 2013) into the science of forensic linguists, using computers to analyze things like word choice and sentence length to determine… Read the rest “How forensic linguistics reveals who wrote what. (Or, why JK Rowling and Alexander Hamilton can’t stay anonymous.)”
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