Beyond Words
The objective of the experiment was to show how easy it is to influence any artificial intelligence if you train it on biased data. The team of researchers quickly found out that Norman wasn’t like any other normal A.I., and its exposure to a subreddit for graphic content changed the way it saw the ink-blotted images that were provided — see here. Norman’s answers just send a shiver down your spine.
An international team of researchers has made CRISPR technology more accessible and standardized by simplifying its complex implementation. The simpler, faster CRISPR, which is presented in the journal Nature Communications, offers a broad platform for off-the shelf genome engineering that may lower the barrier of entry for this powerful technology.
Populations of fish in the ocean are notoriously variable, waxing and waning in often unpredictable ways. Knowing what drives changes in fish population sizes is important for managing fisheries and conserving species.
When the 300-foot Maersk Launcher docked in San Diego early Monday morning, it unloaded a cargo of hardened black blobs scooped from the bottom of the sea. The blobs are not rocks, but naturally-occurring metallic nodules that could one day yield metal deposits of cobalt, manganese, and nickel—not to mention scarce rare earth minerals.
Neutron stars are a natural laboratory for studying the densest and most exotic states of matter that can be imagined.
There’s a reason why a documentary film about Digital Addiction was named Electronic Crack.
Westworld is a hell of a show, but the sense of dread it elicits is nothing new. Pygmalion sculpted a woman who came to life. Same goes with the Golem, only with mud. The amalgamated Frankenstein jolted awake to get all murderous. Humans creating life in their own image is a cornerstone of the realm of fiction.
Researchers from Drexel University College of Medicine and the University of Texas at Austin improved respiratory function in rodents with spinal cord injuries after successfully transplanting a special class of neural cells, called V2a interneurons. Their results, published this week in the Journal of Neurotrauma, indicate that these lab-grown cells have the potential to one day help paralyzed patients breathe without a ventilator.
The Army is testing and prototyping self-generating “Ironman-like” soldier exoskeletons, designed to massively change combat missions by supporting soldier movement, generating electricity, powering weapons systems and substantially lowering the weight burden of what troops carry in war.
This week we’re staying close to home, relatively speaking. First, we’re swinging by Mars and checking out Hale Crater. This large impact crater was created when some space object—likely an asteroid or a comet—got a bit too close and left this deep, permanent reminder of the encounter on the surface of the planet. Hale Crater is full of features like gullies and exposed colorful rock, and it also has something called “recurring slope lineae.” These are marks that show up seasonally, and some think they may be very salty liquid water, but their cause and makeup are still being debated.
Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip—to her own school.
On Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of scientists, industry folk, and public health officials from all over the world filled the amphitheater at the Boston World Trade Center to reckon with the power of biology’s favorite new DNA-tinkering tool: Crispr. The topics were thorny—from the ethics of self-experimenting biohackers to the feasibility of pan-global governance structures. And more than once you could feel the air rush right out of the room. But that was kind of the point. CrisprCon is designed to make people uncomfortable.
Inviting outsiders to craft useful, entertaining, or even puerile extensions to the iPhone’s capabilities transformed the device into the era-defining franchise that enabled Uber and Snapchat. Craig Federighi, Apple’s head of software, is tasked with keeping that wellspring of new ideas flowing. One of his main strategies is to get more app developers to use artificial intelligence tools such as recognizing objects in front of an iPhone’s camera. The hope is that will spawn a new generation of ideas from Apple’s ecosystem of outsourced innovation.
Constructed with the help of a quarter million gamers, EyeWire Museum is one-of-a-kind: the 3D interactive playground showcases neurons in a mouse’s retina in exquisite detail, down to every bend and turn in a cell’s sinuous branches.
A graduate student at Stanford, Kim had been working with an international team of neuroengineers on a crazy project: an artificial nerve that acts like the real thing. Like sensory neurons embedded in our skin, the device—which kind of looks like a bendy Band-Aid—detects touch, processes the information, and sends it off to other nerves.
Data centers consume a lot of energy and produce a lot of heat from all those servers running 24/7. Energy consumption costs can be cut by using ever more efficient hardware, but also by tapping into renewable energy sources. Heat is a more difficult problem, though. Microsoft’s latest idea to deal with it is by placing a data center on the sea floor near Orkney.
Kim Dotcom has invited Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and members of Europe’s largest association of hackers to create a secure social media platform to replace “deep state conspirators” Twitter and Facebook.
Google is now rolling out a creepy “Smart Reply” feature on Android phones which reads text messages you just received and gives you suggestions on how to respond.
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Cleveland Clinic Bans Severely Ill Ohio Man From Kidney Transplant Because The Donor Isn’t Vaccinated 
LOUISIANA WILL EXPUNGE YOUR CRIMINAL RECORD IF YOU AGREE TO GET VACCINATED 
Kraft Heinz CEO says people must get used to higher food prices