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To Advance Artificial Intelligence, Reverse-Engineer the Brain

Your three-pound brain runs on just 20 watts of power—barely enough to light a dim bulb. Yet the machine behind our eyes has built civilizations from …

Artificial Intelligence Has a Strange New Muse: Our Sense of Smell

Today’s artificial intelligence systems, including the artificial neural networks broadly inspired by the neurons and connections of the nervous …

AI can now tell your boss what skills you lack—and how you can get them

Here’s the conundrum with corporate online learning: there are so many classes available from sites like Coursera, edX, and Udacity that companies …

Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life

Illustration by Justin Metz<p>Decades-old discoveries are now electrifying the computing industry and will soon transform corporate America.<p>Over the …

What the Quietest Place on Earth Sounds Like

As humans with, let’s be honest, middle of the road perceptual abilities, we’re both fascinated and terrified by creatures with incredible senses. …

Plant-based burgers are here, and they are JUICY

Beyond Meat just stepped up the burger game with its new line of meats. The sausage, chicken, and burgers are all made from plant protein, so don't …

Barisieur Brewing Alarm Clock

Having a warm cup of coffee or tea sitting on your nightstand the moment your eyes open sounds more like a dream than a wake-up call. This machine …

BlackFly Flying Car

The BlackFly flying car isn't quite the nuclear-powered flying cars that the Jetsons promised us — it's possibly better. Taking a leap current …

Six Times Scientists Radically Misunderstood the World

(via SciShow) Science has come a long way in understanding how our universe works and that road has been full of wrong turns and dead ends. Here are …

Car-sized NASA spacecraft will be FIRST EVER to “touch” the sun

Rocket like it’s hot<p>Space history is set to be made by NASA on 4 August this year, when the space agency will launch a spacecraft directly at the …

For a Planet to Sustain Life, It Needs the Habitable Trinity

<i>Our editors delve into Curiosity's top stories every day on a podcast that's shorter than your commute. Click here to listen and learn — in just a</i> …

Practically Everyone in the World Will See the Longest Eclipse of the Century on July 27. Here's What to Know

The longest total lunar eclipse of the century is set to dazzle most of the world, except the U.S., just shy of a year after the 2017 solar eclipse …

Man Was Fired By His Company’s AI System Due To Human Error, As Managers ‘Stood Powerless’

Ibrahim Diallo was fired from his job by the company's AI system, as managers scrambled to figure out the problem and watched him be escorted from …

Adidas 2018 FIFA World Cup Game Ball

Continuing a tradition that dates back decades, the Adidas 2018 FIFA World Cup Game Ball pays homage to its past. Its pixelated graphics are meant to …

Polymega Modular Gaming Console

Instead of filling your living or game room with retro boxes, the Polymega Modular Gaming Console suggests a more elegant solution. The system …

Choosing the Right Machine Learning Algorithm

Machine learning is part art and part science. When you look at machine learning algorithms, there is no one solution or one approach that fits all. …

WHO classifies 'gaming disorder' as mental health condition

<b>(CNN) —</b> Watching as a video game ensnares their child, many a parent has grumbled about "digital heroin," likening the flashing images to one of the world's most addictive substances.<p>Now, they may have backup: The World Health Organization announced "gaming disorder" as a new mental health …

Best Practices: Selecting, Deploying, And Managing Enterprise Password Managers

CSO offers the latest information and best practices on business continuity and data protection, best practices for prevention of social engineering …

How to Build a First-Class Digital Marketing Team From Scratch

Building a dream team of digital marketers is no small feat.After all, this team of superheroes plays a huge role in your business’s failure or …

Is DevOps the best approach to software development?

Learn Something New This Summer with One of These 10 E-Learning Bundles

Summer is nearly here, and with half of 2018 behind us, now is as good a time as ever to add some new skills to your repertoire. From ethical hacking …

3 Sprint Planning Blunders That Kill Employee Productivity

Improving employee productivity is a serious concern for small businesses. In our recent survey on top technology trends*, small and midsize …

Are Plants Conscious?

Giz AsksGiz Asks is a Gizmodo series where we ask questions about everything from space to butts, and get answers from a variety of experts.<p>Animal …

UX Design Challenges in an Internal Innovation Team

UX in Internal Innovation Teams<p>UX is “a matter of survival.”<p><i>Andrew Kucheriavy, Founder and CEO of Intechnic<br>Forbes, Jan 23 2017,</i> <i>How UX Is Transforming</i> …

A hack day project: Giving you great journalism in every new browser tab

Every so often on The Atlantic’s Product team, we drop what we’re doing and spend a day messing around. Lots of whiteboards, some frantic coding, usually ending with presentations over beers. We call it a “hack day,” but I think of it more as a talent show for ideas — a chance to take all those …

Chinese law professor: AI will end capitalism

Feng Xiang is a prominent Chinese legal scholar with an appointment at Tsinghua University; in a new Washington Post editorial adapted from his …

R and Python are joining forces, in the crossover event of the year

Hadley Wickham is the most important developer for the programming language R. Wes McKinney is among the most important developers for programming language Python. The two languages, which are free to use, are often seen as competitors in the world of data science. Wickham and McKinney don’t think …

Top 5 GitHub Repositories and Reddit Discussions for Data Science & Machine Learning (April 2018)

Hate working in a web browser? How a new breed of software is bringing cloud-based apps into a single interface

In 1983, Microsoft developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi wrote a UNIX program that would eventually become Microsoft Word. It did one thing: …

Cambridge Analytica Shutting Down After Facebook Data Scandal

United Kingdom-based data firm Cambridge Analytica is shutting down operations following the ongoing Facebook data scandal, in which the firm improperly amassed sensitive Facebook user data to target messages to voters during the previous U.S. presidential election. Cambridge Analytica affiliates …