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ALT: Band Of Misfits Monkey

The revolution has finally come for software engineers. The non-techies have the pitchforks, AI has the tokens, and nobody bothered to read the manifesto.

We're fixated on the intelligence of single agents. The more profound challenge is what happens when millions of them interact at scale.

ALT: Monkey Drummer in Pirate Hat

A speculative museum seen through the eyes of future AIs. Five galleries about human feeling, ritual, contradiction, and the making of intelligence.

Imagine, just for a moment, that the Government wanted to keep a record of everyone's sexuality. They need to know this detailed demographic data because it will be highly useful in civic planning. ...

Comcast is activating free Wi-Fi motion sensing on Xfinity gateways, allowing its routers to detect movement at home.

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

Meta filed for a patent that includes a "memory recall" system that appears to detect people via facial recognition and record them automatically, and show you a highlights real later.

A look at why a group of protestors all dressed as Gandalf the Grey chanted and waved banners outside the home of Peter Thiel in Argentina.

Ordinary WiFi networks could quietly become powerful surveillance tools, allowing people to be identified without cameras, special sensors, or even carrying a connected device. Researchers showed that...

Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.

At a time when there's widespread interest in self-improving AI, researchers here have tackled one of the central challenges affecting its development by using an approach adapted from evolutionary bi...

Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.

Researchers in China have created a textile from living mycelium that is self-cleaning, near self-repairing and can be coloured or made UV protective through "plug-and-play" add-ons of different fungi...

"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.