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A brief history of Bitcoin (and the people that made it happen)
The recent fluctuations in the value of Bitcoin are just the latest in a series of spectacular peaks and troughs since it was created in 2009. (Though its price has been falling recently, it remains five times higher than last April, before the latest major peak began. äàëüøå »
2018-9-4 18:18
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Children’s books are adding to science’s gender problem
Ask young children what they want to be when they grow up and the chances are that scientific jobs such as astronaut and doctor will appear high on the list. But ask them to draw a scientist and they are more than twice as likely to draw a man than a woman. äàëüøå »
2018-9-2 13:00
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Human intelligence and AI are vastly different — so let’s stop comparing them
These days, it’s easy to believe arguments that artificial intelligence has become as smart as the human mind—if not smarter. Google released a speaking AI that dupes its conversational partners that it’s human. äàëüøå »
2018-9-1 13:00
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Don’t worry, Alexa and Google Home won’t take away your regional accent
Hey, Google. Can you understand my accent? Of course. You have an incredibly pleasing dialect. So began my Saturday morning discussion with my Google Home Mini. And while I was happy to receive a compliment about my speech, that wasn’t my motivation for asking the question. äàëüøå »
2018-8-29 13:36
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Now is not the best time to buy Nvidia’s pricey new GeForce RTX graphics cards
On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced his company’s latest line of graphics cards aimed at gamers and the consumer market. In a special event that took off in Cologne, Germany, on the eve of Gamescom, Jensen showed the green team’s next generation GPUs, the GeForce RTX 20 line. äàëüøå »
2018-8-28 10:13
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Facebook’s attitude towards researchers should worry you
Facebook is closing its doors to researchers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The latest casualty is the app Netvizz, a research tool used by hundreds of academics to gather public Facebook data, that the social network has recently banned. äàëüøå »
2018-8-27 16:26
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Kid’s video game obsession stems from unmet psychological needs, not video games
Many parents are concerned with their child’s seemingly obsessive video game play. Fortnite, the most recent gaming phenomenon, has taken the world by storm and has parents asking whether the shooter game is okay for kids. äàëüøå »
2018-8-26 17:03
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Enough sci-fi, what will our ‘smart’ environments actually look like?
How will we interact with a growing stream of personalized, curated content over the next generation? Today, intelligent systems are making judgments, continuously analyzing data, and refining their judgments, and the sophistication of those systems will no doubt continue to grow for the foreseeable future. äàëüøå »
2018-8-25 13:00
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Australians are drinking recycled sewage water and you should too
The world watched as Cape Town’s water crisis approached “Day Zero”. Questions are being asked about which other cities could be at risk and what can they do to avoid running dry. In Perth, Australia’s most water-stressed capital, it has been announced that the city is considering reusing all of its sewage as part of its future water supply. äàëüøå »
2018-8-23 15:11
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This astrophysicist explains the surprisingly complex concept of ‘nothing’
Philosophers have debated the nature of “nothing” for thousands of years, but what has modern science got to say about it? In an interview with The Conversation, Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, explains that when physicists talk about nothing, they mean empty space (vacuum). äàëüøå »
2018-8-22 14:51
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Kosher co-working spaces aim to integrate ultra-orthodox into high-tech sector
At first glance, it looks like any other shared workspace: the hip interior design, the abstract art, the ferns gracing the round cafe-style tables, the board with the latest news. But this particular one has a whole library of Talmud books and a strictly kosher kitchen. äàëüøå »
2018-8-11 15:00
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A homeowner’s guide to living on Mars
If you had to live the rest of your life on Mars, what would you miss the most? Figuring out how we could we be comfortable living on the red planet is a challenge but with increasing discussion about how to send people to Mars with the ultimate aim of colonizing the planet, how to replace the sensation of the sunshine on your face or the grass beneath your feet is prescient one. äàëüøå »
2018-8-7 16:19
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UK grime couldn’t exist without ringtones, Playstations, and other low-fi tech
I don’t know if it’s something to do with my own total absence of musical talent, but as both a music fan and journalist, lo-fi has always been my favorite of the fidelities. As a teenager in the 1990s, I listened gleefully to scrappy pop-punk bands like Bis and Urusei Yatsura, who proudly displayhings. äàëüøå »
2018-8-6 17:11
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China’s censored Google is an ethical catastrophe
The Great Firewall of China is the largest-scale internet censorship operation in the world. The Chinese state says the firewall is there to promote societal harmony within an increasing population of billions of people. äàëüøå »
2018-8-6 15:42
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Watch this immersive light show made with astronomical data
As a scientist, I was recently involved in bringing my work to the big screen. This was not a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster but “big screen” in the literal sense: an art production about science that used the Lovell radio telescope, a 3,200-ton steel behemoth supporting of a 76-meter wide dish, to generate and show audio-visual art that drew on scientific data. äàëüøå »
2018-8-6 12:43
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Sorry Elon Musk, but colonizing Mars isn’t going to happen
Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonizing Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly ambitious but technically challenging in several ways. äàëüøå »
2018-8-6 12:07
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Here’s how Fortnite hooked 125 million players
If you have kids, you’ve likely heard about Fortnite. The wildly popular online battle game has amassed over 125 million players and hosts more than 3 million concurrent players. The game “has brought in more revenue in a single month than any other game of its kind,” according to industry watchers, grossing over $1 billion so far this year. äàëüøå »
2018-8-6 11:36
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How bad AI marketing led humans to take on robots’ jobs
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece that detailed how companies that provide email-based services scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users. äàëüøå »
2018-8-4 15:00
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Scientists are using solar powered MP3 players to fight diarrhea in the rainforest
URIDU, a German non-profit social enterprise, is using educational and inspirational music in the fight against the spread of diarrhea in remote regions of the Central African Republic and Congo. äàëüøå »
2018-8-2 14:30
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s electronic voting machines worry security experts
The technology company, Miru Systems Co. , have growing concerns about the South Korean manufactured electronic voting machines in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s upcoming 2018 general elections. äàëüøå »
2018-8-2 10:44
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Google wants to bring free Wi-Fi to Nigeria next year
Google has announced that it will be providing free high-speed Internet access via Wi-Fi hotspots Nigeria. Known as Google Station for Nigeria, the program aims to provide high quality and high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots across Nigeria in partnership with 21st Century, one of the largest fibre network providers in the west Afrikan country. äàëüøå »
2018-8-1 15:08
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Uganda is trying to ban internet porn
It appears that Ugandan authorities are tightening their grip on how the Internet is accessed and used in the east Afrikan country. This is because the Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has instructed telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs)to block local and international pornography websites. äàëüøå »
2018-8-1 10:54
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Here’s how GDPR and the blockchain can coexist
When an enforceable right meets an immutable ledger, it looks like a textbook clash of law and technology. On the one hand, we have the General Data Protection Regulation laws (GDPR), which aims to give people a say in how information about them is processed. äàëüøå »
2018-7-26 16:06
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I got a hoax academic paper about how UK politicians wipe their bums published
Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway I had what seemed like rather a good idea a few weeks back. Building on some prominent findings in social psychology, I hypothesized that politicians on the right would wipe their bum with their left hand; and that politicians on the left would wipe with their right hand. äàëüøå »
2018-7-25 10:08
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