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I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. — Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. — Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
“All right, we’re going to begin this hour with a question on many people’s minds these days, amid all these major developments in the field of artificial intelligence. And that question is this: How long until the machines replace us, take our jobs?” That’s the beginning of a segment broadcast Read more…
Scientists from China’s Hebei University of Science and Technology have developed an ice-melting additive for asphalt that could remain active for years. [The researchers started] out by developing a chloride-free acetate-based salt. Such salts are considerably less environmentally harmful than chlorides, they’re less corrosive to steel and other materials, plus Read more…
A 19-month-old girl named Teddi recently became the first child in the U.K. outside a clinical trial to receive a new gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a fatal genetic disorder, the National Health Service (NHS) announced. Roughly six months out from treatment, “Teddi is a happy and healthy toddler Read more…
There may soon come a time when your car also serves as the hub of your personal power plant and then they tell the story of a New Mexico man named Nate Graham who connected a power strip and a $150 inverter to his Chevy Bolt EV during a power Read more…
A new Apple patent application describes a way to transform an iMessage to a voice note. In this way, the recipient can choose to have your message read to them not in Siri’s voice, but in yours. In other words, when you send an iMessage, your phone would offer you Read more…
Apple has released the first trailer for its movie Tetris, which tells the extraordinary true story of the struggle between Western publishers, Nintendo, and the Soviet Union itself for the rights to Alexey Pajitnov’s classic puzzle game. Taron Egerton plays Henk Rogers, the gaming entrepreneur who was instrumental in discovering Read more…