Birds might be conscious and self-aware like humans, groundbreaking study finds

So, calling someone a ‘bird brain’ is now a compliment? Read more at Mashable SEA…

‘Absolutely Life-changing Moment’: 17-Year-Old Wins Youth Science Competition By Making Quantum Physics Explainable

Canadian teenager Maryam Tsegaye remembers sitting in her dad’s lap as a young girl and asking…

Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways | ZDNet

The username and password (zyfwp/PrOw!aN_fXp) were visible in one of the Zyxel firmware binaries. Read more…

Apple loses copyright claim against Corellium startup | Cult of Mac

Apple has lost a copyright infringement case against Corellium, a startup that lets users run iOS…

Canadian research identifies walking speed as predictor of dementia

The speed at which you walk, or the so-called gait speed, might be a predictor of…

How the humble slime mold helped physicists map the cosmic web

Despite similarities, “We don’t think the universe was created by a giant slime mold.” Read more…

Cyberpunk 2077 Player Accidentally Buys Expensive Car And Immediately Dies From Shock

A player has shared a clip of the moment they died of shock in Cyberpunk after…

MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules

In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the…

With a single image, scientists changed our understanding of the Sun forever

Astronomers have been staring at the Sun for decades but only recently have they been able…

DeepMind Has Reconciled Existing Neural Network Limitations To Outperform Neuro-Symbolic Models | MarkTechPost

DeepMind Has Reconciled Existing Neural Network Limitations To Outperform Neuro-Symbolic Models Read more at MarkTechPost…

Spotting elephants from space: A satellite revolution

Using the highest resolution satellite imagery currently available—Worldview 3—from Maxar Technologies and deep learning, (TensorFlow API,…

There Used to Be Aliens in Our Galaxy, but They Killed Themselves Off

ETs have a thing for self-annihilation. At leat that might be the grim conclusion… Read more…

Tardigrades may have taken over the Moon

There’s live on the Moon!!! At least since 2019 when Israeli Beresheet spacecraft crash-landed on the…

Deepfake queen to deliver Channel 4 Christmas message

Channel 4 will use deepfake technology for its alternative to the traditional Christmas broadcast. Read more…

Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger’s equation

A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for…

Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri

Strange radio transmissions appear to be coming from our nearest star system; now scientists are trying…

Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’

When the Hubble Space Telescope set its sights toward the binary star system HD 106906, astronomers…

The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations

The arxiv database used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of…

‘A moment of reckoning’: Microsoft’s president sounds a dire warning after the SolarWinds cyberattack

Brad Smith called for a global response to what he described as a threat to critical…

At NeurIPS 2020, researchers proposed faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation

Backpropagation has led to impressive gains in AI and machine learning. But it has limitations researchers…