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Does staying informed help us cooperate? Not always, as ignorance can lead to cooperation too. Credit: Hebi B. (422737)/Pixabay In the face of existential dilemmas that are shared by all of humanity, including the consequences of inequality or climate change, it is crucial to understand the conditions leading to cooperation. A new game theory model developed at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) based on…

Voice actor Victoria Atkin, who played Evie Frye in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, has criticised the use of artificial intelligence software to simulate voices for mods, calling it an “invisible enemy.” “I was kind of shocked, really, that it’s been used without my say, without my consent, it’s just out there,” she said in an interview with IGN on the realisation that her voice was featured in a mod without her permission. “To think that my living could be taken away because somebody could copy it and modify it and make me…

For better or for worse, Oppenheimer ironically finds itself amid a sea of expectation — and only time will tell whether or not this World War II film has what it takes to achieve something truly special. More than that, Christopher Nolan’s latest mind-bending blockbuster houses a cast unlike any the director has ever had. Including: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Josh Peck, Rami Malek, and Robert Downey Jr. to name a few. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPbbksJxIg For the title role of J.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The British Empire was not created through military might alone, historian Robert Travers points out in a new book; subsuming existing bureaucracy was another way the East India Company consolidated power in India starting in the 1770s. In "Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of…

It admittedly isn’t the kind of invention marking a radical departure from its previous drone-related innovations, but a recently published US patent application by the Ford Motor Co. does offer additional evidence the automotive giant is intent on integrating UAVs into its future cars and trucks. Given its earlier filings describing concepts for gear permitting drones to perform wide-ranging services – including accessing and jump-starting cars with flat batteries – Ford’s patent submission …

If you stay back from the porthole and remain on the rubber mat, you can stay dry in the Titan submersible.You can’t stand up, because it’s not tall enough for that. There’s enough room, however, to lie down or crouch. But if you press up close to the porthole in the titanium dome at the front of the vessel to gaze at the wreckage of the Titanic, it gets extremely cold. Condensation builds inside the domed area of the submersible, adding to the discomfort, according to Alfred Hagen, an explorer and documentary filmmaker…

With artificial intelligence hype leaving venture capitalist firms foaming at the mouth, ready to buy into any new company that sticks an “A” and “I” in its name, we sure as hell need a new way of defining what constitutes an AI. The Turing Test fails to define real intelligence in today’s world of large language models. One leading figure in the AI field has a better idea that could only come from the wealth-obsessed realm of big tech: the best way to tell if AI is smart is if it can get rich quick.ChatGPT’s Creator…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every square is a rectangle. But not every rectangle is a square. And according to Scott Murphy, a professor in the University of Kansas School of Music, the prevailing neo-Riemannian musical theories have been classifying many musical squares merely as rectangles. So Murphy has proposed a new…

Close-up of the melting of two gold nanoparticles. The one on the right is under melting process, while the one on the top has already melted completely and has taken on a fully rounded shape. Credit: University of Barcelona Gold is a precious metal that has always fascinated humans. From Priam's Treasure to the legend of El Dorado, gold—regarded as the noblest of metals—has been a symbol of splendor and wealth in many…

Tallulah Willis, the youngest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, knew for a long time that something wasn’t quite right about her famous father, whom she remembers as being “cool and charming and slick and stylish and sweet and a little wacky.” What wasn’t right was hard to define, the 29-year-old said in a new essay for Vogue.  “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss,” Tallaluh Willis said in the essay, explaining that her mother and her father’s…