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3 Things You Need to Solve a Really Tough Problem
Innovation is never about individual nodes. It's always about networks.<p>By the early 20th century, the world's great mathematicians knew they had a big problem. The very foundations of logic, held sacred since the time of Aristotle, were under siege after the discovery of troubling paradoxes by …
Eli LillyOld-School FPS Battalion 1944 Launches on Early Access
Battalion 1944 Brings First-Person Shooters Back to Their Roots<p>Square Enix Collective announced the other day that <i>Battalion 1944,</i> an ‘old-school’ WW2 …
Gaming Industry37 Hidden Gems On Netflix You Need To Watch In 2018
*bookmarks this post for whenever I'm bored*<p>1. <i>Sing Street</i> (2016): This truly underrated musical follows a teen in Dublin in the '80s as he forms a rock band to impress a girl.<p>—irishpink<p>2. <i>Train to Busan</i> (2016): It’s a Japanese film about a zombie virus outbreak, and it's got a huuuuuuuge twist …
Moulin RougeTeach about LGBT issues in Maths and Science lessons, report says
A new LGBT-inclusive curriculum would see LGBT people reflected across all subjects at school.<p>Stonewall launched the guide, sponsored by Pearson, …
LGBTQAdding Artificial Intelligence (AI) to your Xamarin Apps
These are awesome times to be a software developer!<p>There is so much power at the tip of your fingers for you to use. Take for instance, Cognitive …
Software DevelopmentHas Artificial Intelligence Cracked the Voynich Manuscript’s Mysterious Code?
Send in the bots.<p>An emotional investment in the Voynich manuscript offers little in the way of return. For hundreds of years, this 15th-century …
CultureDid Codebreakers Crack This Mysterious Medieval Manuscript?
The 600-year-old Voynich Manuscript is one of the biggest mysteries in cryptology. Scientists are using AI to try to read it.<p>A pair of Canadian codebreakers may have deciphered a 600-year-old book that has been baffling cryptologists for centuries. But, more likely, they probably haven't.<p>In a study …
CultureThe Business Case for AI
For all of the attention that tools like Siri have generated, we're still only at the dawn of the artificial intelligence revolution.<p>While the …
Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence Takes a Crack at Decoding the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript has baffled cryptographers ever since the early 15th-century document was rediscovered by a Polish book dealer in 1912. The …
ArchaeologyITV's Victoria: Who was Ada Lovelace? Did Prince Albert fall for her? ITV, PBS Masterpiece in the US, BBC First in Australia, TVNZ 1
Who is the “lady mathematician” in episode two of Victoria? None other than Ada Lovelace! Series creator Daisy Goodwin introduces us to a vital …
Mathematics'The Catcher Was a Spy': Film Review | Sundance 2018
Paul Rudd plays real-life baseballer Moe Berg in Ben Lewin's WWII adventure.<p>In 1944, the U.S. government asked a multilingual Jewish baseball player …
Paul Rudd'Freak Show' movie review: If John Hughes were alive today ... | NOLA.com
Ask anyone who was a teenager in the 1980s, and they'll tell you that if one filmmaker more than any other seemed to be speaking directly to them, it …
New Orleans‘Hypermagnetizing’ molecules could aid imaging via MRI, NMR
Researchers at the University of York have created a new way to magnetize molecules found naturally in the human body, opening the door to more …
NanotechHow Our World Will Change by 2099 According to a Futurologist Whose Predictions Come True in 86% of Cases
Have you ever wondered when robots will become as regular an item in our homes as a fridge, for example? Ray Kurzweil doesn’t make guesses — he names …
SingularityBig Issue: Will AI destroy jobs and 'spell the end of the human race'?
Prime Minister Theresa May wants Britain to be a world leader in regulating artificial intelligence. But some of the finest minds on the planet have …
Artificial IntelligenceAI: Here Today, Everywhere Tomorrow?
Lots of enterprises have a long way to go before they roll out AI-based applications. Where are you on the path to AI?<p>Enterprise use of artificial …
Artificial Intelligence18 For '18: Technology Predictions For The New Year
Whether you’re happy or sad to see 2017 fade into history, one cannot help but admit that it was a critical year in the world of technology. We witnessed the release of the latest iteration of the smartphone, the explosion of bitcoin/cryptocurrency and even a tech company (Amazon) acquiring Whole …
GDPRWhat Is Artificial Intelligence and How Is It Powering Our Lives?
When we come across the terms “Machine Learning” and “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), images of sentient robots fighting their war on our planet …
Artificial IntelligenceWhat Exactly is Artificial Intelligence and Why is it Driving me Crazy
<b>Summary:</b><i> Advanced analytic platform developers, cloud providers, and the popular press are promoting the idea that everything we do in data science</i> …
Artificial IntelligenceThe world’s largest set of brain scans are helping reveal the workings of the mind and how diseases ravage the brain
ENIGMA, the world’s largest brain mapping project, was “born out of frustration,” says neuroscientist Paul Thompson of the University of Southern …
NeuroscienceVictoria Wood shortlisted to be commemorated in special artwork
PRESTWICH actor Victoria Wood and former Bury Art Society President LS Lowry have been named as two famous Mancunians shortlisted to be commemorated …
ManchesterDeep Learning and the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have moved well beyond science fiction into the cutting edge of internet and enterprise …
Artificial IntelligenceThe Happy Prince review – Rupert Everett is magnificent in dream role as dying Oscar Wilde
Directed by and starring Everett, this poignant dramatisation of Wilde’s final years in exile is a powerful parable of passion and redemption<p>It is a part he was born to play, and he does it with exactly the right kind of poignantly ruined magnificence. Rupert Everett has written, directed and …
Film (UK)Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution
Charles Babbage is considered "the father of the computer." But it was Lord Byron's daughter, the mathematician Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first …
TrendsAI Is Better at Compromise Than Humans, Finds New Study
Morality can be programmed. Kind of.<p>The revolution will not be televised. It'll be sent to your inbox by us.<p>Let’s face it. Ever since artificial …
Artificial IntelligenceMicrosoft's Latest AI Creation Reveals Just How Much Computers Can Imagine
No (well, only a few) instructions needed.<p>The revolution will not be televised. It'll be sent to your inbox by us.<p>Ever since computer scientist Alan …
Artificial IntelligenceFrom One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS and Childlessness
<i>S. Kirk Walsh | Longreads | January 2018 | 27 minutes (6,711 words)</i><p>I first met Dan Cronin on an early spring evening in 1993. Michael, my new …
Muhammad Ali30 Celebrities Who Turned Down Major Movie Roles
Some of your favorite films could have looked completely different.<p>It’s difficult to imagine an iconic movie without its iconic stars. But many an actor has passed on a part that brought critical adulation or big bucks to someone else. Whether they declined because of scheduling conflicts or those …
MoviesAntonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary - Issue 56: Perspective
Following Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio may be the neuroscientist whose popular books have done the most to inform readers about the biological …
ConsciousnessREVIEW: 'The End of the Fxxxing World' is a perfectly dark new Netflix show you'll fall in love with
<b>Warning: Minor spoilers ahead for "The End of the Fxxxing World."</b><p>The opening premise of Netflix's "The End of the Fxxxing World" is deceptively simple: Two outcast teens, James and Alyssa, decide to run away together.<p>But little does Alyssa know that James (who has killed small animals and has been …
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