Tag: science

• The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking

  July 28, 2019

  Like many medications, the wakefulness drug modafinil, which is marketed under the trade name Provigil, comes with a small, tightly folded paper pamphlet. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-hidden-costs-of-automated-thinking more ›

• Branding a movement: Extinction Rebellion

  June 20, 2019

  Campaigners have issued three core demands to the government: to “tell the truth about climate change”; to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025; and to create a citizens’ assembly… more ›

• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

  June 8, 2019

  This site makes use of third-party cookies for analytics. By continuing to use the site, you accept the use of cookies. Read more The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the… more ›

• Data Ethics is important

  June 2, 2019

  The May issue of Admap puts the spotlight on data ethics. According to the Open Data Institute, data ethics is “a branch of ethics that evaluates data practices with the… more ›

• Our changing climate and the road ahead

  June 2, 2019

  Following a recent members-only briefing with inventor Bill Gross on how our sustainable future will be powered by renewable energy and innovations in energy storage, I was curious to delve… more ›

• It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning

  May 28, 2019

  DNA tweaks won’t fix our problems. Editors’ note: This is the first installment in a new series, “Op-Eds From the Future,” in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists… more ›

• Inside Amazon’s German AI research program

  May 26, 2019

  BERLIN — Deep in the heart of Germany, a team of scientists is trying to crack one of the fundamental problems of artificial intelligence: teaching a machine to understand cause… more ›

• Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane

  April 3, 2019

  Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware, including remote control over the steering, and an adversarial example attack on the… more ›

• Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived

  March 11, 2019

  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires’ list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is… more ›

• FDA’s opioids adviser accuses agency of having ‘direct’ link to crisis

  January 24, 2019

  The Food and Drug Administration is sacrificing American lives by continuing to approve new high-strength opioid painkillers, and manipulating the process in favor of big pharma, according to the chair… more ›