Long-distance space travel, traveling at sub-light speeds, will require a way to make the journey with a crew of aging humans. While it’s possible to ...
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Machine learning for everyone: How to implement pose estimation in a browser using your webcam
The 20th century turned out to be an era of exponential growth in the field of machine learning. The 3000-year-old ancient game of ‘Go’ that computer ...
Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already re-configuring the world in conspicuous ways. Data drives our global digital ecosystem, and AI technologies re...
AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew Ng, founder of Cours...
What would convince you that aliens existed? The question came up recently at a conference on astrobiology, held at Stanford University in California....
Do you ever wish you could just turn on the happy chemicals in your brain? Imagine how much easier it would make getting out of bed each morning, gett...
The latest industrial robots look like petting zoo versions of the big machines found in many modern factories – small, cute, and you can play with th...
Technological innovations such as mobile devices and biometrics to capture an entire population’s vital events from birth to death are accelerating pr...
Capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks, and even removing it directly from air, might be the only way to avert the most catastrophic effects of cli...