Technology companies like to portray artificial intelligence as a precise and powerful tool for good. Kate Crawford says that mythology is flawed. In her book Atlas of AI, she visits a lithium mine, an Amazon warehouse, and a 19th-century...
“No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.” Thus spake Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy, offering sage counsel for companies that want to get the best possible software. If you’re in the business...
Swinburne’s Space Technology and Industry Institute combines internationally competitive capabilities in astrophysics, aerospace, aviation, advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence to tackle challenges at the forefront of human understanding and imagination.
The new institute will propel innovation and economic growth...
Time to look outside the city for quarantine sitesWhy, when states are offering to establish alternative COVID-19 quarantine sites to city hotels, is the Morrison government being so pig-headed by refusing to even acknowledge the soundness of the proposal...
This use of orthogonal coding to separate and protect information in the brain has been seen before. For instance, when monkeys are preparing to move, neural activity in their motor cortex represents the potential movement but does so orthogonally...
Shortly after a Smartlynx Estonian Airbus 320 took off on February 28, 2018, all four of the aircraft’s flight control computers stopped working. Each performed precisely as designed, taking themselves offline after (incorrectly) sensing a fault. The problem, later...
China is racing ahead with new emerging technologies, and this is making Western countries worried. (Source: Getty)The West must urgently act to ensure China does not dominate important emerging technologies and gain control of the "global operating system", Britain's...
Pyodide has been spun out by Mozilla into an independent, community-driven project. Consisting of the CPython 3.8 interpreter compiled to WebAssembly, Pyodide allows Python to run in web browsers.The Pyodide project has a new home in a separate GitHub...
A woman works from home in September 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. | Robin Utrecht/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images At least heading back to the office means cheaper electric bills. There are plenty of reasons...
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Four hundred and 39 days ago, the 92nd Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theater...
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