Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI
Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them. Enlarge / An AI-generated image of James Madison writing the US Constitution using AI. (credit: Midjourney / Benj Edwards) If you feed America's mo.....»»
How the US census led to the first data processing company 125 years ago
And kickstarted America’s computing industry. Enlarge / This electromechanical machine, used in the 1890 U.S. census, was the first automated data processing system. (credit: Michael Hicks (CC BY 2.0)) The US Constitution r.....»»
How to use Google Translate
With Google Translate you can translate written or spoken text using just your phone -- even without internet......»»
The Best Book of the Past 125 Years, According To NYT Book Review Readers
An anonymous reader quotes a summary from Boing Boing, written by David Pescovitz: This year marked the 125th anniversary of the New York Times Book Review. To celebrate, the editors asked readers to nominate "the best book published" in those 125 ye.....»»
How John Madden Became the "Larger-Than-Life" Face of a Gaming Empire
"[John] Madden, who died Tuesday, helped bring to life a series of football video games that have generated $7 billion in revenue since 1988," reports the New York Times. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report, written by Kellen Browni.....»»
Apple Ditched Intel, and It Paid Off
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC, written by Todd Haselton: Apple's decision to ditch Intel paid off this year. The pivot allowed Apple to completely rethink the Mac, which had started to grow stale with an aging design and iterative ann.....»»
Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On
Rarely does a country get a chance to lay out its ideals as a nation and write a new constitution for itself. Almost never does the climate and ecological crisis play a central role. That is, until now, in Chile, where a national reinvention is under.....»»
Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via Quanta Magazine, written by Thomas Lewton: During a summer storm in 2018, a momentous lightning bolt flashed above a network of radio telescopes in the Netherlands. The telescopes' detailed reco.....»»
Hey, Bingo? Steve Ballmer nearly changed Cortana’s name in last act at Microsoft
In a newsletter written by a former Microsoft employee, the origin story of Cortana reveals how the assistant could have been called Bingo......»»
How to have Alexa listen for running water and beeping appliances
With Alexa's Sound Detectors, the voice assistant can now listen for the sounds of running water and beeping appliances in your home. Here's how to configure......»»
You Can"t Lure Employees Back To the Office
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Months have gone by, and the great resignation keeps rolling along. Some people thought that people would come flocking back to the office once generous unemploymen.....»»
A Domestic Newspaper Warns of the Russian Space Program"s "Rapid Collapse"
A long and strikingly critical article that reviews the state of the Russian space program was published in the state-aligned newspaper MK this week. This article was written by Dmitry Popov, who has worked at the publication since 1992. Ars Technica.....»»
Polarization, diversity, and democratic robustness
Polarization is dangerous for democracy. Though the U.S. Constitution was designed to harness rivalry with a diverse, redundant, and modular set of institutions, if that rivalry curdles into the belief that your competitors are your enemies, those in.....»»
A new concept for high-performance detectors
When the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory turned on the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser in 2009, it marked the beginning of a new era in science—one where researchers could directly observe the ultrafast moti.....»»
Researchers Are Hoping To "Hear" Dark Matter Using a Super-Cooled Experiment
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report by Gizmodo, written by Isaac Schultz: The Dark Matter Radio project is attempting to detect hidden photons in a specific frequency range by methodically turning the dial, in what amounts to a patien.....»»
"Matrix" Stars Discuss Free "Matrix Awakens" Demo Showing Off Epic"s Unreal Engine 5
This year's Game Awards also saw the premiere of The Matrix Awakens, a new in-world "tech demonstrator" written by Lana Wachowski, the co-writer/director of the original Matrix trilogy and director of the upcoming sequel. It's available free on the P.....»»
"Being the Ricardos" can"t live up to "I Love Lucy"
Being the Ricardos isn't Aaron Sorkins' best movie. It might not even break the top half of the dozen or so he's written. Yet the writer-director's sparkling biopic of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz feels like an inevitable Academy Awards contender. The.....»»
Acclaimed Sci-Fi Writer On How Humanity Will Endure the Climate Crisis
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson shares which actions be believes need to be taken to address the climate crisis. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report, written by Daniel Aldana Cohen,.....»»
What Will Happen To Arm Now?
Jonathan Greenberg: Surprising almost no one, the US Federal Trade Commission has moved to block Nvidia's acquisition of Arm. We have written a lot about this deal and Arm in general, and wanted to touch on the topic in light of this news. We will sa.....»»
The Matrix Resurrections: Everything we know about the upcoming Matrix sequel
Original co-director Lana Wachowski has written and directed a new sequel to The Matrix, called The Matrix: Resurrections, with Keanu Reeves returning......»»
Color-changing magnifying glass gives clear view of infrared light
Detecting light beyond the visible red range of our eyes is hard to do, because infrared light carries so little energy compared to ambient heat at room temperature. This obscures infrared light unless specialized detectors are chilled to very low te.....»»