New physics theory postulates the existence of SLABs: Stupendously Large Black Holes
At the center of the Milky Way lies the biggest object we can be sure exists: a supermassive black hole
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Author: Tristan Greene
Scientists figured out how to turn black holes into power sources
A group of scientists from Columbia University recently published a paper detailing how humanity could power an off-Earth colony by
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Stanford team behind BS gaydar AI says facial recognition can expose political orientation
Stanford researcher Michael Kosinski, the PhD behind the infamous “Gaydar” AI, is back with another phrenology-adjacent (his team swears it’s
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Hundreds sign letter demanding answers after Github fires Jewish employee for calling insurrectionists Nazis
Github, a Microsoft company, allegedly fired a Jewish employee for saying “there are Nazis about” in reaction to the insurrectionist
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The US Army is developing a nightmarish thermal facial recognition system
The US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the
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Here’s what happened in the world of artificial intelligence in 2020
The year 2020 was long and treacherous, but the biggest bright spot for me was the official launch of Neural.
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Sony AI launches its Gastronomy Flagship Project to make the world a bit tastier
Sony AI recently announced its Gastronomy Flagship Project, an AI-powered initiative built on “enhancing the creativity and techniques of chefs
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The difference between human and machine intelligence
Welcome to Neural’s beginner’s guide to AI. This multi-part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what
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Here’s 3 sad science news stories to ruin your day (because it’s still 2020)
2020 still has a few more weeks left and if ever there was a guarantee it’s not going down without
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Iranian nuclear scientist allegedly assassinated via killer robot
A top nuclear scientist with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran’s military services, was assassinated on
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China claims it built a quantum computer that’s 10 billion times faster than Google’s
State researchers in China recently developed a quantum computing system purported to be 10 billion times faster than Google’s “Sycamore”
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How AI-powered video compression could make an honest man out of Elon Musk
“LIDAR is a fool’s errand. Anyone relying on LIDAR is doomed. Doomed! Expensive sensors that are unnecessary. It’s like having
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Researchers taught AI how to judge a video game by its cover
Have you ever seen the promo art or box cover for a video game and thought “what the hell is
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DoNotPay, the AI lawyer for your inbox, now lets you report businesses for tax fraud
Here’s a cool one: DoNotPay, the legalese-trained email crawler that scours your inbox for ways to save you money (or
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We should hold animals accountable for their crimes. Here’s how AI can help
The setup’s hilarious: Two park rangers hiding behind a tree pointing a camera at a bear in the distance so
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