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An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help
An artificial intelligence has disproved five mathematical conjectures, despite not being equipped with any information about…
What if The Heart of The Milky Way Isn’t Actually a Black Hole Like We Thought?
We sort-of take it for granted that there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of…
4 vulnerabilities under attack give hackers full control of Android devices
Google updates a 2-week-old security bulletin to say some vulnerabilities were 0-days. Read more at Ars…
Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts
We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing…
Like ‘A Part of Their Body’: People Adapt to an Extra Thumb in Fascinating Experiment
An experiment in which 36 people were fitted with a robotic third thumb has demonstrated the…
“Big Surprise!” – Heavy Metal Vapors Unexpectedly Found in Comets Throughout Our Solar System – and Beyond
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large…
AI searched for single-atom-alloy catalysts, found 200 promising candidates
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from China and Germany have presented a new search algorithm for…
This AI Makes Robert De Niro Perform Lines in Flawless German
When films are dubbed in another language, an actor’s facial movements may clash with his lines.…
Google showed off its next-generation AI by talking to Pluto and a paper airplane
The next version of Google could be a conversation with AI. Read more at The Verge…
Newly Discovered Quasicrystal – “Magnificent in Its Complexity” – Was Created by the First Nuclear Explosion at Trinity Site
Discovery of new material could someday aid in nuclear nonproliferation. A newly discovered quasicrystal that was…
How I hacked my PlayStation Classic into the console Sony wouldn’t give us
With Project Eris, you can transform Sony’s miniature flop into the console it should have been…
Emergency oxygen enemas could help us “breathe” through our intestines
Scientists have made the surprising discovery that some mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines. The…
New Evidence for Controversial Theory That the Electron Is Composed of Two Particles
New Evidence for Electron’s Dual Nature Found in a Quantum Spin Liquid Results from a Princeton-led…
GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about
GPT-Neo performs on par with GPT-3 on several key benchmarks, but unlike GPT-3, it’s open to…
Cybersecurity Researchers Build a Better “Canary Trap” – Using AI to Generate Fake Documents
A new artificial intelligence system generates fake documents to fool adversaries. During World War II, British…
In 1.3 Million Years, a Star Will Come Within 24 Light-Days of the Sun – Universe Today
Using data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of Russian scientists have concluded that a star…
Hormone Drugs May Disarm Coronavirus Spike Protein and Stop COVID-19 Disease Progression
A new Penn Medicine study shows how anti-androgen drugs disrupt key receptors required for viral invasion…
Google Replaces BERT Self-Attention with Fourier Transform: 92% Accuracy, 7 Times Faster on GPUs | Synced
Transformer architectures have come to dominate the natural language processing (NLP) field since their 2017 introduction.…
Intel is using machine learning to make GTA V look incredibly realistic
Graphics can get even more realistic with the right inputs. Read more at The Verge…