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.
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Distributed denials of service attack, once a manageable annoyance, have just become powerful enough to do very real damage.
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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.
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Charles Seife wants his fusion reactor and he wants it now, dammit, or no funding for you.
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Military blogger invokes theoretical computer science in a post about testing code for fighter jets and gets the fundamentals wrong.
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A self-described Anonymous hacker general describes a world right out of a spy movie playing only in his own head.
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Bureaucrats keep thinking about how to tame the internet, but the internet's very nature makes it trivial to resist their efforts.
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Could alien AI be the dominant life form in the universe instead of its organic creators?
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The international community is trying to jump ahead of autonomous killer robots, but the messiness of war means they have few answers to the crisis they imagine.
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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.