Sci-Fi

It’s World Cup season, so that means that even articles about machine learning have to have a football angle. Today’s concession to the beautiful game is a system that takes 2D videos of matches and […]

Without warning, President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he’s directing the Pentagon to form a new arm of the military called the “Space Force.” Sounds pretty cool right? Well, as cool as it may […]

For centuries, sailors spoke about a tentacled monster called “the Kraken” that lurked in the oceans.  “There were tales of them pulling ships and men to their death, which may have been partially true, although […]

Bouncing across the moon’s bleak, gray surface, 12 astronauts gathered hundreds of pounds of moon rock between 1969 and 1972.  Sometimes, they lifted blocks as heavy as 25 pounds (in Earth weight) off the lunar […]

With augmented reality coming in hot and depth tracking cameras due to arrive on flagship phones, the time is right to improve how computers track the motions of people they see — even if that […]

Volcán de Fuego erupts during a sunrise. Image: Shutterstock / John Crux By Mark Kaufman2018-06-14 18:10:04 UTC There’s no question that Guatemala’s Volcán de Fuego is a deadly mountain. Beginning June 3, the volcano sent […]

Animals that live near human activity are becoming nocturnal just to avoid us, and the implications for ecosystems around the world could be huge.  A team of researchers conducted a meta-analysis which included data about […]

Goodbye star, casually gobbled up by a supermassive black hole. Image: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF By Johnny Lieu2018-06-15 02:32:18 UTC Beware of the hungry black hole. Astronomers tracked a supermassive black hole, 20 million times larger […]

Computer systems are getting quite good at understanding what people say, but they also have some major weak spots. Among them is the fact that they have trouble with words that have multiple or complex […]

[embedded content] Humans aren’t perfect, but anatomist Alice Roberts knows how they could be. On Wednesday, BBC shared a terrifying video in which Roberts reimagines the human body and creates Alice 2.0 — a version […]