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
Researchers test a neural mesh that envelops the brain in electrodes without invasive, complex surgery in an exciting step forward in human-machine interfaces.
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An AI far smarter than any human may want to have no contact with us. Unfortunately, it won't have a choice in the matter.
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Tech pundits keep pitching anatomically correct robots built to be interactive sex toys as a solution for many societal woes despite a lot of red flags that it won't work.
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We have the tools, know-how, and technology to make this a better, more advanced world. We're just refusing to do it because the public is used to the droning of naysayers.
# oddities
The sci-fi experiment is now loose on Amazon.com for less than the price of a latte.
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The march of automation is imminent. How we plan for it is crucial for the future of the global economy.
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Study on the failures of telecommuting shows that many employers don't understand telecommuting and hence, neither do their workers.
# science
A new potential life-extension drug is performing extremely well in mice. Will these results translate well to humans?
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Kurzweil is starting to appreciate that he's been oversimplifying how the human brain works. But his latest iteration of a theory of mind still leaves much to be desired.
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There's a cottage industry of techno-utopians out to convince us that their wildest computer-based dreams are right around the corner.