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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The Daily Galaxy takes up preaching the gospel of the Singularity to its fans while dodging the sketchy history and problematic future of the concept.
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In order to make their cinematic universe work, the creators of The Matrix had to make their robots invulnerable. In reality, they wouldn't have won the war against humans.
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China wants its citizens connected to the internet. Just not the kind of internet where their daily propaganda blitz could be questioned with the click of a mouse...
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Defining and measuring intelligence is very difficult. It will be even more difficult if that intelligence is artificial.
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Turns out, insects have basic forms of intelligence and the path to thinking robots may be through emulating how their tiny minds work.
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A biologist tried to give a neuroscience lesson to the utopian futurists at H+ and they did not take it well.
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In another major step for brain-machine interfaces, a stroke victim can speak using a computer with amazing accuracy.
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A look at all the top stats of 2009 on the last day of the year.
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Another year comes to close at Weird Things and what a year it was...
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The team behind Duke Nukem Forever failed to learn the most important lesson of any creative and engineering field: at some point you have to stop designing and building the thing.