The truth is that they are actually blacked-out islands. These are geographical locations that have been either completely omitted or significantly blurred in Google Maps. You can bet that these alterations didn’t escape the scrutiny of the internet community, igniting a host of conspiracy theorie...
A home blurred on Google Street view Credit: Google street view Google Street View offers a window to the world in all its bizarre, intimate, and often unfiltered glory. However, this peek into everyday life also extends to your home, potentially revealing more than you'd like — from ...
Everyone must first understand and then continually remind themselves that the risks of AI are very real, and will become increasingly unpredictable and significant over time, with some critical risks that could bring widespread catastrophe and untold misery to every single human on Earth, including ...
The accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was caused by an unprecedented Magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. However, the plant was not well prepared to withstand such an unexpected natural hazard. Although defense-in-depth was supposed t
“All these mass surveillance programs are very expensive. To the tune of multiples of NASA budget. We could probably fund Mars base with these fund.” There is a big question mark over all this data collection. We know that Facebook, Google, et al live by user data. But it seems to...
Indeed, the more Google conveys a sense of complete knowledge, the less we are really informed about the deeper dimensions of the issue we are exploring. Illusion is the result; not understanding. In his latest book, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, the artist and ...
Each electrode only records a broad average—a vector sum of the charges from millions or billions of neurons (and a blurred one because of the skull). Imagine that the brain is a baseball stadium, its neurons are the members of the crowd, and the information we want is, instead of ...
2Without doubt,these latter are less reprehensible than the twisting of history to create a sense ofidentity for neo-Nazi groups. But even if these creations are clearly fictional, theyhave the power to convey images and ideas that shape the attitudes and beliefs oftheir audiences in the‘real...
“professional left” in August. He wasn’t putting it diplomatically, but he was basically trying to remind his base that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in their Google alerts, and without appreciating that fact, they were less likely to tolerate the messiness...
Each electrode only records a broad average—a vector sum of the charges from millions or billions of neurons (and a blurred one because of the skull). Imagine that the brain is a baseball stadium, its neurons are the members of the crowd, and the information we want is, instead of ...