Today’s robots are less intelligent than cockroaches, but advances in quantum computing—transferring information using atoms rather than silicon—could revolutionize the field of AI.
Parents often change their speech when talking to babies, simplifying their sentences and altering the words and noises they make to sound - and this is a technical term here - ‘more adorable.’ Turns out we’re not the only ones.
The poet Allen Ginsberg would have celebrated a birthday today, his 86th. We didn’t want the day to slip by without mentioning his 1955 poem, Howl. So today we give you Ginsberg reading Howl in 1975. You can access the 27 minute reading in different formats.
If you were to ask any PC gamer over the age of 30 what title help them to cut their teeth with the first person shooter genre, most of them would immediately respond with the 1992 classic Wolfenstein 3D from id Software.
We like to believe that a few bad apples spoil the virtuous bunch. But research shows that everyone cheats a little—right up to the point where they lose their sense of integrity.
Today, the fabled connection between genius and madness is no longer merely anecdotal. Mounting research shows these two extremes of the human mind really are linked — and scientists are beginning to understand why.
