The world’s largest manufacturer of rubber bands is making its main product immortal. Alliance Rubber Co., a 94-year-old company based out of Alliance, Ohio, has announced a new partnership with British researchers to infuse graphene into its rubber bands. The rubber bands could transform how food travels through supply chains, simplify the shipment of
Disney’s cuddly toys of the future could be smart enough to pick out the perfect bedtime story, thanks to a clever new artificial intelligence engine that’s been trained to judge short works of fiction. Using neural networks designed to mimic the learning processes of human brains, the AI was trained using sample stories to recognise
Is our non-stop photo-taking pulling us out of the moments that matter and causing us to forget what we’ve seen? Maybe not, according to new research looking at the relationship between snapping pictures and forming memories. During the study, 294 volunteers were asked to tour a museum exhibit listening to an audio guide – those
Elon Musk and more than 100 leaders and experts in artificial intelligence (AI) have come together urging the UN to commit to an outright ban on killer robot technology. An open letter signed by Musk, Google Deepmind’s Mustafa Suleyman, and 114 other AI and robotics specialists urges the UN to prevent “the third revolution in
We all know most maps of the world aren’t entirely accurate. For starters, Africa is way bigger than it looks, and Greenland isn’t nearly so vast. But a designer in Japan has created a map that’s so accurate it’s almost as good as a globe, and it’s probably one of the best estimations you’ll see
Sometimes, science is all about the mind-aching big picture. Like the idea that our Universe is just a giant hologram, or that we’ve actually detected gravitational waves from a neutron star collision. Or that we might not actually have as much free will as we think… Those are really exciting concepts. But then there are