Will AI one day win a Nobel Prize?
Artificial intelligence is already disrupting industries from banking and finance to film and journalism, and scientists are investigating how AI might revolutionize their field—or even win a Nobel Prize......»»
FaZe Clan and MoonPay offer huge prize in new “FaZe1” challenge
FaZe Clan and MoonPay offer big prizes and the chance to join FaZe with new streaming series "Road to FaZe1" FaZe Clan and MoonPay offer big prizes and the chance to join FaZe with new streaming series "Road to FaZe1"Read More.....»»
Someone Zoom bombed an Italian senate meeting and streamed Final Fantasy VII porn
A meeting of experts from various fields to discuss data transparency in political decision making was going well for the first 30 minutes, but that all went wrong when Giorgio Parisi, a Nobel Prize winners in physics, was introduced on the Zoom call.....»»
Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years
Gary Smith: In 1970, Marvin Minsky, recipient of the Turing Award ("the Nobel Prize of Computing"), predicted that within "three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being." Fifty-two years later, we.....»»
And the Biggest Scientific Breakthrough of 2021 Is...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit quotes Science magazine: In his 1972 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, American biochemist Christian Anfinsen laid out a vision: One day it would be possible, he said, to predict the 3D structure of any protein merely from.....»»
Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies
Winners of the 2021 Nobel Prizes will start receiving their awards on Monday in scaled-down local ceremonies adapted for pandemic times......»»
Physics Nobel belies Italy"s scientific brain drain
Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi will receive a shared Nobel prize at a ceremony Monday, but behind the celebrations is consternation at the brain-drain that for years has seen many young scientists leave to work abroad......»»
Potential new gene editing tools uncovered
Few developments have rocked the biotechnology world or generated as much buzz as the discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems, a breakthrough in gene editing recognized in 2020 with a Nobel Prize. But these systems that naturally occur in bacteria are limite.....»»
Moto Edge X30, first Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 phone likely to launch on December 9
Xiaomi, Realme, and Oppo are all vying for top prize in the race for the first Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 smartphone, but Motorola looks likely to win it......»»
How warm weather or bright lights can influence tree greening
Lin Meng has been named the grand prize winner of this year's Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists for research she conducted on how both global warming and bright city lights can impact phenology in trees (when they begin to grow leaves i.....»»
Mom and daughter bound for space after winning Virgin Galactic prize
A health coach from Antigua and Barbuda has won two tickets worth almost $1 million to be among Virgin Galactic's first space tourists—and plans to take the trip of a lifetime with her teenage daughter......»»
Virgin Galactic reveals the winner of free trip to space
Virgin Galactic has just announced the winner of its sweepstake with the top prize of a free suborbital space ride on a rocket-powered plane......»»
UK Visa Scheme for Prize-winning Scientists Receives No Applications
Not a single scientist has applied to a UK government visa scheme for Nobel prize laureates and other award winners since its launch six months ago, New Scientist reported Tuesday. From a report: The scheme has come under criticism from scientists an.....»»
27th Annual Text Adventure Competition Won By Game About - Text Adventures
DevNull127 writes: Saturday afternoon, 91 geeks huddled around a Twitch stream to hear the winners announced for the 27th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. This year's competition attracted 71 entries, and $10,396 was raised for a cash-prize fu.....»»
How to watch ATP Finals 2021 and live stream tennis online from anywhere
As the world's top eight male players fight it out for the last prize of the season, see how to watch a 2021 ATP Finals tennis live stream no matter where you are......»»
Nobel-linked Swedish institute seeks distance from racist past
The Swedish body housing the committee that awards the Nobel Prize in medicine on Tuesday said it will rename some buildings and a street named after racialist or pro-Nazi scientists......»»
Singapore politician envisions internet kill switch that stops minors accessing unsuitable material
Singapore Minister of Defense Dr. Ng Eng Hen made his tech wishes at the city-state's 2021 Defense Technology Prize, reports The Register. Among them were buildings with integrated cleaning technology that can kill viruses and bacteria, the ability t.....»»
Ammonia synthesis by mechanocatalysis in a ball mill
A breakthrough in the fight against hunger, three Nobel Prizes, and 150 million tonnes of annual production—yet still a tricky topic for research: For over 100 years, the chemical industry has been using the Haber-Bosch process to convert atmospher.....»»
Intel"s competition to win Xe Arc GPUs contains a hint about their prices
Phase one of Intel’s competition was a little lackluster, but phase two promises to up the ante. A prize pool of $430,000 will be shared among 3,300 winners and entry is free......»»
Curators squeezed out by high dino bones price tag
This week the largest triceratops skeleton ever unearthed goes up for auction in Paris—but museum curators like Francis Duranthon can only dream of getting their hands on such a prize......»»
Why the Physics Nobel Honored Climate Science and Complex Systems
The prestigious award finally recognizes work that helped scientists understand climate change and, more broadly, find order in disorder -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»