What are the Olympic medals made of? It seems an obvious answer – gold, silver, and bronze; it’s on the label! – but the silver medal is the only one that is

https://youtu.be/CzAoJzlkzZ4 A single-celled organism that walks using 14 "legs" seems to control these legs with a mechanical computer made of fibres called microtubules . The finding might help explain how many other single-celled organisms engage in extraordinarily…

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From hospitality to road haulage, firms say they can't get staff. So are employees now calling the shots?

New, award-winning research from the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science is helping inform and improve future design and development of interactive machine learning tools.

After fencers spent too much time dancing around doing nothing, the sport introduced a new way to force the action—and it has already introduced new thrills at the Olympics.

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The C programming language is famously prone to memory-safety problems
that lead to buffer overflows and a seemingly endless stream of security
vulnerabilities. But, even in C, it is possible to improve the
situation in many cases. One of those is the memcpy()…

Big Oil is touting “advanced recycling” as the solution to the world’s waste crisis. But the technology has yet to live up to its backers’ lofty claims, a Reuters review of 30 projects found.

Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception.

Why hasn't new technology made us more productive than it has?

You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.

In “Full Employment”, my July 2020 column, I wrote, “I am an AI skeptic. I am baffled by anyone who isn’t. I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (ad…