Holographic teleportation sounds like something out of Star Wars or Star Trek, but instead of the bridge of a flashy interstellar spaceship, a world-first technological achievement took place in a nondescript boardroom on campus at Western recently.The term holographic...
The authors of a new report on digital identity systems warned “the actual and potential” human rights violations arising from the digital ID model can be “severe and potentially irreversible.”The 100-page report — “Paving the Road to Hell? A Primer on the Role...
A massive solar flare has erupted from the Sun on June 14 and is expected to hit the Earth soon, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The US-based scientific and regulatory agency has raised an alert that the solar flare headed our...
A Google engineer has been placed on paid administrative leave for violating policy after he claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) appears to have a consciousness and perhaps even a soul.The engineer, Blake Lemoine, posted a transcript of a conversation he...
In footage from Russia's flagship propaganda show, a member of Russia's parliament boasts about the nation's military might, before also labelling 2 million Ukrainians as "incurable."The politician, Alexie Zhuravlev, was joined on the talk show by fellow MP and Russian-state mouthpiece Yevgeny Popov, the...
Astronomers used a perhaps unlikely tool to understand what they saw in their historic first image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole: a library of computer simulations that mimic the black hole with millions of variations.Taking an image...
DeepMind expert suggests the hardest tasks to create a human-like AI are solved
The London firm wants to build an 'AGI' that has the same intelligence as humans
This week DeepMind unveiled a program capable of achieving over 600...
By Brandon SpecktorThe U.S. government's now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) spent millions of taxpayer dollars to research bizarre, experimental technologies such as invisibility cloaks, antigravity devices, traversable wormholes, and a proposal to tunnel through the moon with nuclear explosives, according to...
Nasa launched a basic one called Arecibo in 1974 but with better tech available today scientists want to update it.The new spacebound note - dubbed the Beacon in the Galaxy - is the latest attempt to make contact with other lifeforms.It...
Exactly one year ago today, UFO experts were buzzing about reports of a pilot who claimed he saw "a long, cylindrical object" flying over New Mexico.American Airlines and the FBI confirmed reports that flight AA 2292, which was travelling between Cincinnati and Phoenix...