Some robots are trained in pain, others learn to draw correct ethical conclusions, but in New York three Japanese NAO robots displayed reactions considered to be the first signs of …
the quantum future is near (and it will turn many things upside down…)
with a satellite as a starting point…(…that will conduct quantum experiments in space) The emergence of increasingly extreme innovative technological applications has long become a tedious cliché in the electronic …
Bring the pain!
Chasing AI (artificial intelligence), the “holy grail” in the field of information technology and robotics, researchers are testing various paths. One of them is breaking the problem into pieces. Thus, …
body, pregnancy, recording, representation: the change of the “normal”
At the end of the ’60s, a pregnant young woman, a mother for the first time, carefully opens a leather-bound notebook with white pages. She notes the date and year …
Transparent world
In the past, all kinds of security services had to “get their hands dirty” in order to achieve a good and reliable rate of filing cases against subjects under surveillance. …
genetic predisposition; no, thank you!
Are we our genes? A large part of the so-called “scientific community” continues to support this view, albeit using statistical tricks. DNA is our “book of life,” written with just …
Ephemeral genes
It is one of those scientific procedures that (with our limited minds) we would hardly consider truly “scientific”: first (some claim) they found the genes for A or B, and …
Instructions for aspiring cyber athletes
We translate as an example some sections of a post from the League of Legends subreddit “summoner school” titled “How to actually improve at League of Legends (not just tips).” …
The all seeing eye
In Neuromancer, Gibson’s novel that introduced the concept of cyberspace, the heroine who made the greatest impression on the audience was Molly Millions. A tough mercenary, cyborg, with a plethora …
gamers, streamers, cyberathletes (on Shylenz!)
The words of the title describe some of the most active identities in the cyber universe! They come from all parts of the planet (as long as there is internet) …
cybernetics
The gentleman in the first photograph is the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson, one of the principal (if not the principal) founders of structuralism in linguistics. Taking Saussure’s theories as his …
genetic / cybernetic: a white wedding
“The genetic code is the set of rules by which information stored in the genetic material of living cells (DNA or RNA sequences) is translated into proteins (amino acid sequences).” …