The Japanese strategy game, Nature reports, is the latest battlefield on which artificial intelligence has defeated human experts:
… Read the rest “Google can beat a human at go.”The best human players of chess, draughts and backgammon
New Scientist looks at the AI that’s been assigned the unenviable task of reading every scientific paper online and finding the important ones:
… Read the rest “It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.”Semantic Scholar, which launches
Ars Technica has an inspirational story of some folks who decided they could do a better job than their “professional” ISP:
… Read the rest “DIY Internet: How Orca Island, WA, became their own provider.”Around that time, CenturyLink service went out
According to Quartz, in the African country of Tanzania at least, it’s WhatsApp:
… Read the rest “What social media app has the biggest political influence right now? Not Facebook. Not Twitter.”Things are a bit different in Africa, where the mobile phone has changed not only the way people communicate
Now, after that brief, regrettable interruption in service, a tribute to the computer.
This illustration is from The Elements of Natural Philosophy; Or, An Introduction… Read the rest “Science Art: Scheutz mechanical calculator (Zeichnung der Difference Engine No.1 aus dem Jahr 1853), 1867.”
Science Daily takes security to a whole other level with a new system that relies on your brain’s responses to words as security instead of memorized passwords:
… Read the rest “Forget your passwords; use your brainwaves.”In “Brainprint,”
New Scientist marvels at the ability of DNA to store information, with a realization that glassed-in genes could safely store information for millennia:
… Read the rest “The DNA hard drive.”Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically
Fusion has the details on the growing community of DNA uploaders:
… Read the rest “A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.”Members of openSNP upload their genes along with things like their sex, age, eye color, location, Fitbit data and medical
You know it’s real when there’s money involved. Well, real-ish. New Scientist has more on the Google acquisition of DeepMind Technologies and their Neural Turing Machine… Read the rest “Self-programming computers (little fake brains) fuel new start-up.”
Daily Beast looks over Washington University research that’s found that the singular diagnosis of schizophrenia is actually a compound disease, caused by eight different genetic… Read the rest “Schizophrenia: many diseases in one”
The Atlantic gives hope to the new generation of WebMD obsessives with a fascinating tale of an athlete who used the internet to figure out what was *really* going on in her malfunctioning… Read the rest “Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease”
Nature has more on the suitably self-recursive premiere of a uniquely mathematical piece of music:
… Read the rest “Gödel music composition to debut at Gödel Prize celebration.”The piece, “The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel” by Danish composer Niels Marthinsen, was
Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on how old smart phones are being used to listen for disrupted sleep patterns, illegal loggers, gunshots, breeding cicadas and a host of other… Read the rest “Old phones are listening.”
Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.
Science Daily has a lively take on computing, with new circuits made of living slime molds:
… Read the rest “Slime logic. Who needs silicon chips?”Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) and Theresa Schubert (Bauhaus-University
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