Ideally, artificial intelligence agents aim to help humans, but what does that mean when humans want conflicting things? My colleagues…
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Just outside the historic German town of Goslar, a sprawling industrial complex receives an endless stream of discarded electronics. On…
Our personal information is more valuable than ever. The most recent government cyber threat report warns that foreign state actors…
Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: “vegetative electron microscopy”. This phrase, which sounds technical…
Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space…
The medieval Islamic mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al Haytham (965 – c. 1040) lived in Cairo, Egypt, during the Islamic…
Public support for the U.S. government or tech companies taking steps to restrict false information online has ticked down slightly…
If you scoop a bucket of water out of the ocean, does it get lower? –Ellis, 6 and a half,…
In the 1987 classic film RoboCop, the deceased Detroit cop Alex Murphy is reborn as a cyborg. He has a…
In the recent flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump, one warned of “a distorted narrative” about race “driven…