Two separate teams of technoscientists, both funded by the American Pentagon, recently announced that they have (experimentally) achieved quantum teleportation. These are programs of the well-known DARPA, one in China …
Robotic know thyself
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 …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Artificial racism
On the 23rd of last March, Microsoft launched an ambitious experiment on machines’ ability to learn and evolve mentally in real time. The goal of the experiment was to show …
short history of computers
Every modern computer is, in essence, supposed to be a physical implementation of an ideal machine, the universal Turing machine that can compute any computable function. Extremely simple in conception, …
familiarity count
A recent survey of 1,002 adults in England, on topics related to the (and technological) future, yielded answers that are quite interesting. – Although 60% to 72% (depending on the …
social cats
The site iknowwhereyourcatlives.com is an online page – a project by a professor at the University of Florida. It displays a world map with little cats at the spot where …