Quanta Magazine

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans ...
autoevolution

Mazda Woman Driver Uses Navigation App, Ends Up on Rail Line, She Still Doesn't Give Up

The woman was running a navigation app – like Google Maps or Apple Maps, considering we’re in America, and Apple’s software ...
EDN

Memory card interfaces keep pace with the internal bus evolution race: Part 1

Clock speeds get faster. Per-cycle (and per-clock edge) address and data dollops get larger. And protocols get more efficient ...

Robot fish could unravel how our ancient ancestors first learned to walk

Researchers have developed a fish-like robot that shows how some species of modern fish are able to walk on land, and could help unravel how early vertebrates evolved similar abilities hundreds of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In the Early Days of Machine Learning, Massive Computers Said George Harrison Was a Woman. A.I. Has Come a Long Way

A Cornell professor designed a room-size network of sensors that represented a single neuron. He claimed it would grow wiser ...