The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.
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A scientific legend in his own time, James Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize for helping discover the structure of DNA. Tomorrow he will sell the medal for income at a Christie’s auction.
Jon Iwata, Senior VP of Marketing and Communications at IBM, shares the origins and purpose of IBM’s supercomputer Watson.
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IBM and USAA have joined forces to introduce supercomputer Watson to veterans in need of guidance as they transition back into society.
The singularity is near! Our smart phones and laptops will one day seem like the gadget equivalent of the horse-and-buggy compared to the machines we will rely on in the […]
Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM’s Watson, however, changed all of that.
“It never phased him that we’d call out different tunes from the stage and change the set around endlessly to stop from being bored,” Radiohead front man Thom Yorke says […]
Dr. James Watson can’t help but speak his mind. And this has gotten the co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix in trouble in the past. He has been called, among other things, […]
“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”
Carl Sagan was far from the first to declare we are the children of ancient stars.
Are breakthroughs really a matter of chance, or are they simply waiting to be uncovered by the right person at the right time?
Comparing Elon Musk’s Mars rocket to NASA’s new ride.
There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.
From Nick Carraway to Charles Marlow, these side characters offered truths their scene-stealing protagonists couldn’t.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
The reported supremacy of generative AI over human brain-power in business ideation depends on how you define “better.”
Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Our concept of “failure” is way too narrow.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
Employees are quitting at record rates – a trend that shows no signs of stopping.
Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
Our social emotions are now being hijacked by robots.
The Earth is warming, and humans aren’t doing nearly enough to combat it. Could partially blocking the sunlight be the solution? It’s 2020, and not only is the Earth warmer […]
Researchers believe that war exacerbates climate change, threatening the environment and making future wars more likely.