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A “shrink it and pink it” approach has often been used to adapt products for women. But these reimagined objects challenge an ...
There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe ...
You may not know his name, but Steve Jobs was so desparate to hire Bill Atkinson that he went to extraordinary lengths to recruit him for Apple - and it proved to be a smart move.
When Brenda Coffee married her charismatic boss Philip Ray, 14 years her senior, the wide-eyed 21-year-old imagined an exciting future of love, wealth and shared adventures.
The dishwasher, chocolate-chip cookies, and the first version of the Monopoly board game were all created by women.
Now in the ICONS live final you’ve voted Alan Turing as the greatest of them all, beating Nelson Mandela, Ernest Shackleton, David Bowie, Martin Luther King Jr, Muhammad Ali and Pablo Picasso.
Q&A The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more. Russell Impagliazzo, a ...
The analogy between a computer and the human mind is commonly adopted by AI evangelists. But Thaler has pursued the consequences of such a belief further than most of his peers.
Microsoft — an icon of American technology — helped the start-up OpenAI usher its experimental chatbot, ChatGPT, into the world. And China’s tech entrepreneurs are shocked and demoralized.
“Every icon is designed by hand, pixel by pixel,” he says. “There is no Photoshop filter or computer trickery that would create a result pleasing to the eye.” [Image: courtesy Ben Vessey] ...