The Covid-19 research challenge, also hosted on Kaggle, aims to provide a broad range of insights about the pandemic, including its natural history, transmission data and diagnostic criteria for the virus, and lessons from previous…
Rainbow Kitty Litter Could Help Monitor Your Cats…
An animal's inability to tell you when they aren't feeling well is one of the hardest parts of pet parenthood. Even when they're showing symptoms, you can't just ask them what's wrong. (Well, you can—just…
Where Do Eels Come From?
In the spring of 1876, a young man of nineteen arrived in the seaside city of Trieste and set about a curious task. Every morning, as the fishermen brought in their catch, he went to…
Recently Discovered Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Is So Well-Preserved It…
“We don’t just have a skeleton,” one researcher involved said. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.” Nodosaur: highlight of the dino exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada.…
PAC-MAN Recreated with AI by NVIDIA Researchers |…
Forty years to the day since PAC-MAN first hit arcades in Japan, and went on to munch a path to global stardom, the retro classic has been reborn, delivered courtesy of AI. Trained on 50,000…
Its Called Artificial Intelligence—but What Is Intelligence?
Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most sophisticated learning system—the mind of a baby. Gurgling infants might seem like no match for artificial intelligence. They are terrible…
Is the Brain a Useful Model for Artificial…
In the summer of 2009, the Israeli neuroscientist Henry Markram strode onto the TED stage in Oxford, England, and made an immodest proposal: Within a decade, he said, he and his colleagues would build a…
Crucible, Amazon’s First Big-Budget Game, Arrives Wednesday
Amazon enters the crowded games industry in full force Wednesday with its release of Crucible, the first big-budget PC game to come from Amazon Game Studios. Crucible is a promising mainstream introduction for the eight-year-old…
TCLs First Phones in the US Are Affordable…
I've been testing a lot of budget phones lately. You'd think my favorites would come from established brands like Samsung and Motorola, right? Not quite. The phones I've really enjoyed using come from a brand…
Strava Cuts Off Leaderboard for Free Users, Reduces…
After roughly five months of appeasing users with new feature after new feature after new feature, the other shoe has finally dropped. Today, Strava sold its segmented soul. At least, if you believe Strava Segments are…