stanford university computer scientist balaji prabhakar has used a $3 million research grant from the usdot to set up a lottery—commuters who travel to campus during off-peak times could win up to $50 in their paychecks. as a result of prabhakar’s work, singapore is considering a similar...
Fun fact: Solar Lottery was first published as one half of an Ace Double; the other novel was Leigh Brackett’s The Big Jump. John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids (1955, US title: Rebirth). Centuries after a nuclear war (known now as “Tribulation”) devastated global civilization, a farming...
guest edited by Shinobu Majima and Mike Savage in December 2008.3 These photographs can be viewed online at http://spender.boltonmuse- ums.org.uk4 The personal story of Ruby Loftus emerged as part of a Home Front Recall oral history project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and undertaken...
The £350m weekly savings from Britain’s budget contributions to the EU, to be reallocated to the National Health Service. (No mention of the likely €50bn-plus net bill to settle our obligations once the UK concludes divorce proceedings with Brussels.) Or the charge — by Leavers — th...
I knew I had just seen the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface. This inspired me to think about all the things that AI can achieve in the next five to 10 years. The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal...