Stories by pseudolus

The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes

Report describes Apple’s “organizational dysfunction”, “lack of ambition” in AI

How Much Does ‘Nothing’ Weigh? Experiment will weigh void of empty space

The greatest bird artist you’ve never heard of

Can the Meritocracy Survive Without the SAT?

The curious side effects of medical transparency

The moon dust problem facing scientists

Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?

India’s population exploded to overtake China’s and what’s next

Yuval Noah Harari: “Regulate AI before it regulates us”

Scientists Sequenced DNA of Nearly Every Mammal in Unprecedented Project

West Nile Virus outbreak in Arizona shattered records, killed 101

Remember the First Time Colorado Tried Fracking with a Nuclear Bomb? (2019)

Dealing with a debacle: A better plan for US plutonium pit production

The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the Internet

Sapphire Schrödinger’s cat shows that quantum effects can scale up

AI and Politics: How Will We Know What–and Who–Is Real?

Bleak Outlook for Manhattan’s Office Space May Signal a Bigger Problem

What browsing in a store offers that online algorithms just can't

The Musk superfans who want to live on Mars with Elon