Depths of the ocean stay hidden when we stand on a shore and see only waves, sunlight glinting off the surface and perhaps distant ships.…
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Silver sand sits on our map in eleven places. Anyone who wanted to build more out of silver sand was out of luck: the world…
The world we wake up to is carefully curated exactly to our interests: not the world as it objectively exists, but one that an algorithm…
Our blocky world has been running for five years — it started as a Minetest server for builders and players. After years of “somehow working”,…
Spacetime carries waves you cannot feel on your skin or see with the naked eye, yet they bear information about the most powerful events in…
Mornings with a racing heart, a feeling of anxiety, and fragments of bizarre images in your head, or a dream about utter nonsense that lingers…
Thousands of working satellites orbit the Earth — and alongside them, many times more of their dead remains. Retired satellites, spent rocket stages, fragments from…
Since November 2022, when generative models reached the general public, one question has returned more often than any other: will artificial intelligence take people’s jobs?…
Gene editing with the CRISPR-Cas9 system moved from laboratories into clinical practice in 2023. That year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for…
What Is Mind Uploading, Anyway? Mind uploading — sometimes called whole-brain emulation or digital immortality — is the idea that one day we might transfer…