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The minds of plants From the memories of flowers to the sociability of trees, the cognitive capacities of our vegetal cousins are all around us Laura Ruggles Aeon Laura Ruggles is a philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide in Australia. At first glance, the Cornish mallow (Lavatera cretica) is little more than an unprepossessing weed. It has pinkish flowers and broad, flat leaves t..

Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels The power of narrative flows only from the human brain. By Angus Fletcher NAUTILUS February 10, 2021 You’ve been hoaxed. The hoax seems harmless enough. A few thousand AI researchers have claimed that computers can read and write literature. They’ve alleged that algorithms can unearth the secret formulas of fiction and film. That Bayesian software can m..

Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything? It might be possible, physicists say, but not anytime soon. And there’s no guarantee that we humans will understand the result. Credit...Alex Eben Meyer By Dennis Overbye The New York Times Nov. 23, 2020 Once upon a time, Albert Einstein described scientific theories as “free inventions of the human mind.” But in 1980, Stephen Hawking, the renowned C..

Why global crises are the mother of invention In 1815 a volcanic eruption wreaked havoc around the world. But it led to the birth of the bicycle by Tom Standage The Economist Jul 3rd 2020 The eruption in April 1815 of Mount Tambora, a volcano in what is now Indonesia, was one of the largest in recorded history. A vast plume of dust and ash spread around the world, blocking out the sun and reduci..

삼성, 10년후 바라보며 "5G 주도권 6G까지 잇겠다" 김성민 기자 조선일보 입력 2020.07.14 14:00 6G 백서 발간 /인터넷 캡처 세계 각국이 5G(5세대 이동통신)망 설치를 본격화하는 가운데, 삼성전자가 이보다 앞선 6G(6세대 이동통신) 시대 개막을 위한 본격 기술 개발에 나섰다. 작년 4월 국내 이동통신 3사와 함께 세계 최초로 5G폰을 출시한 데 이어 6G에서도 기술 주도권을 놓치지 않겠다는 전략이다. 삼성전자는 14일 차세대 통신인 6G 기술 비전을 담은 ‘6G 백서’를 공개했다. 모든 사용자에게 ‘새로운 차원의 초연결 경험(The Next Hyper-Connected Experience)’을 제공한다는 비전을 제시한 것이다. 6G 시대는 쉽게 말하면 지금보다 월등히 빠른 통신 네..

The Walkman, Forty Years On The gadget that taught the world to socially distance. By Matt Alt The New Yorker June 29, 2020 The Walkman débuted in Japan, in 1979, to near silence. But, within a year and a half, Sony would produce and sell two million of them.Photograph from Alamy Even prior to extended quarantines, lockdowns, and self-isolation, it was hard to imagine life without the electronic..

How the US Can Compete in 5G Ironically, succeeding in the cutting-edge industry might require dusting off a precedent from the Reagan era. By Lucas Tcheyan and Sam Bresnick for The DiplomatDiplomatic MagazineMarch 12, 2020 In this Sept. 26, 2018 file photo, a staff member uses a laptop at a display for 5G wireless technology from Chinese technology firm Huawei at the PT Expo ..

ソレイマニ暗殺の米国ドローン「超ハイテク攻撃」の衝撃　21世紀の戦争はこう変わる 小泉 悠　 文春 ONLINE 2020年01月22日 　アメリカ軍によるイランのソレイマニ将軍暗殺で一気に高まった米イラン緊張。ソレイマニ将軍にトドメを刺したのは、アメリカ軍のドローン兵器だった。最..

人の「骨格」を見て、作業ミスをAIが即座に発見生産現場の作業者の動作を解析する三菱電機の新技術 栗原 雅／2019.11.27 JB Press 骨格の動きを検出して作業者の動作を解析する「骨紋」（三菱電機提供） 　人の動きをAI（人工知能）が的確に捉えるにはどうしたらいいか。三菱電機が..

Deforestation, human activities accelerated soil erosion 4,000 years agoBy Brooks HaysUPI Science News Oct. 29, 2019 / 5:29 PM Scientists analyzed sediment cores collected from lake beds around the world to measure the influence of human activities on erosion at global scales. Photo by Hannes Grob/Wikimedia Commons Oct. 29 (UPI) -- New research suggests human activities result..