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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Popular science outlets and tech pundits are getting the wrong idea about chips built to function more like biological neurons.
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A disagreement between academic and industrial computer science is threatening to leave students in an educational no-man's land.
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Bitcoin is supposed to be a whole new way to manage money. But the humans handling it are still the same and falling into old habits with this new currency.
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The problem with John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment is that its premise is woefully outdated in computer science terms.
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No, computers didn't predict the Arab Spring. Their vague outputs are just being sold as predictions after the fact.
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Weird Things returns from its extended break to bring you more strange science and tech.
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A not so happy update about the future of Weird Things...
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If we accept that internet connectivity in the 21st century is a part of vital infrastructure, the next question is what is the minimum speed we can call acceptable.
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Unless you're famous enough to be recognized by the top tier in your industry, you're probably still going to need a resume, no matter what Seth Godin says.
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Spy agency stalking is now as easy as paying a dollar for an app. We really didn't think this ubiquitous wireless connectivity thing through at all, did we?