Skilled artisans are becoming obsolete.
This gadget can knit you a sweater.
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Adobe is going to help your selfie game
Adobe automatically makes your selfies better.
I wanted to share an amazing part of US history demonstrating why history matters
American Revolution Records from the American Revolutionary War indicate that at least a few Muslims fought on the American side. Among the recorded names of American soldiers are “Yusuf ben Ali” (a member of the Turks of South Carolina community), “Bampett Muhamed” and possibly Peter Salem.
The first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation was the Sultanate of Morocco, under its ruler Mohammed ben Abdallah, in the year 1777. [23] He maintained several correspondences with President George Washington.
Life On Earth To Hit Brick Wall In Another 500 Million Years
From the archives.
Our Earth and Sun continue to have a delicate relationship. Credit: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center.
Complex life here on earth will hit a habitability wall in only 500 million years; not in an almost languorous 1.75 billion years, as reported in a recent global media flap.
The flap — spurred by a paper in the journal Astrobiology — failed to cover earth’s future carbon dioxide (CO2) “compensation limit,” says James Kasting, a prominent planetary scientist at Penn State University, whose own models were used by the paper’s authors.
Can you fall in love with a robot?
People are already falling in love with robots. What’s really going on?
http://cnnmon.ie/2nM9UVK
To learn more about robot love, look out for episode 3 of #MostlyHuman, coming next week!
Predicting the optimal brain computer interface of the future
Interesting link within concerning an injectable interface.
To be able to design a device that measures brain activity an understanding of the brains function is required. This section gives a high-level overview of some of the key elements of brain function. Human brains contain approximately 80 billion neurons, these neurons are interconnected with 7,000 synaptic connections each (on average). The combination of neurons firing and their communication is, in very simple terms the basis of all thoughts conscious and subconscious. Logically if the activity of these neurons and their connections were read in real-time, a sufficiently intelligent algorithm could understand all thoughts present. Similarly, if an input could be given at this level of granularity new thoughts could be implanted.
All human brains abide by the general structure shown in the picture below, certain areas, by and large do certain things. If higher levels of thoughts like creativity, idea generation and concentration want to be read, the frontal lobe is the place to look. If emotions and short-term memory are the target, the temporal lobe is the place to read from.
Siri vs. Google Assistant: Pixar Artists Designing A Stronger Personality For The Latter: Report — By Rishabh Jain | International Business Times
“Google is set to give its artificial intelligence-based voice assistant, Google Assistant, a more robust personality.”
