Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# tech
Riot is being pitched as a digital, hyper-aware spy. It's nothing more than a simple data aggregator from public social media profiles.
# tech
No, computers didn't predict the Arab Spring. Their vague outputs are just being sold as predictions after the fact.
# tech
Is it possible to simulate and compute our way to solving the mysteries of the universe and actually get it right in the end?
# tech
A new computer language wants computers to learn about the world the same way we do: using statistics.
# tech
The idea that simulating a brain in a computer will yield an intelligent being has become an unshakeable belief amongst Singularitarians.
# tech
Before you let IBM sell you a computer to help lead your company, consider the downsides of outsourcing your strategy to a machine learning algorithm.
# tech
Two IBM project leaders are arguing about the results of the Blue Matter experiments. The critics seem to have the upper hand, scientifically speaking.
# tech
Researchers at IBM seem to believe that simulating the background activity of the brain will create a conscious, self-aware mind.
# astrobiology
Simulations are great starting points. But there are only so many conclusions we can draw from them.