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Female Chimps Seen Making, Wielding Spears : DNewsnews.discovery.com
The discovery that female chimps stab prey with handcrafted spears suggests how the earliest humans first made weapons and hunted. - cr.yp.to
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How a Toronto professor’s research revolutionized artificial intelligence | Toronto Starthestar.com
Artificial intelligence research using neural networks has taken off, with a $400-million boost from Google, in part thanks to Canadian Geoffrey Hinton. -
Yes, I Found Einstein’s Brainmedium.com
Sixty years ago, Albert Einstein died. But for his brain, it was the start of a long, looney and unseemly journey. Here’… -
cloud.google.com
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varianceexplained.org
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The hidden FM radio inside your pocket, and why you can't use itmprnews.org
Most smartphones have a built-in FM chip. But whether or not it's activated is in the hands of the mobile carriers, who profit when you stream radio. -
Egg Whites, Rhino Horns, And Stem Cells: IndieBio's Plan To Bioengineer A Better Worldfastcoexist.com
Synthetic biology is advancing faster and more cheaply than ever beforeand now many startups are getting swept up in that promise. -
madsciencewriter.blogspot.com
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Competing in a data science contest without reading the datablog.mrtz.org
Machine learning competitions have become an extremely popular format forsolving prediction and classification problems of all sorts. The most famousexample ... -
hypermammut.sourceforge.net
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gothefoutside.com
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Nuclear power: Desperately seeking plutoniumnature.com
NASA has 35 kilograms of plutonium-238 to power its deep-space missions — but that will not get it very far. -
The Quest to Make Massive Gaming Worlds Realistically Complexmotherboard.vice.com
London startup Improbable is trying to make simulated worlds where you can interact with everything, and actions have consequences. -
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State seizes 11-year-old, arrests his mother after he defends medical marijuana during a school presentationwashingtonpost.com
The boy was defending his mother's use of a drug that helps her deal with an awful condition. -
The Hidden Ocean Patch That Broke Climate Records - Issue 23: Dominoes - Nautilusnautil.us
Nothing has caused climate scientists quite as much recent trouble as the so-called “global warming hiatus.” Not only did this… - mikeash.com