What AI Maze Experiments Reveal About Chasing The Wrong Goal

A little over a decade ago, AI researchers Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley set small robots fitted with sensors loose in a ...
The Times of Israel

67 CE. From Yosef HaCohen to Josephus Flavius

Josephus Flavius lived through one of the most tumultuous eras in Jewish history. His life would take him from the command of Jewish forces in Galilee to the inner circles of Roman power, and ...
UPI

Algorithms did not invent tribal hatred -- they amplified it

June 4 (UPI) --A study published last November in Science confirmed what many observers of digital politics have long suspected: feed algorithms do not merely reflect human hostility. They can amplify ...

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it ...
NPR

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...
PC World

How to fix common USB connection problems in Windows

So you’ve connected a device to your PC via a USB port — but Windows doesn’t recognize it. What now? Before you assume the product (or your PC port) is broken, there are several USB troubleshooting ...