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 ...

In A First, AI Decodes Entire Scroll Scorched In Mt. Vesuvius Eruption

A full Herculaneum scroll "unwrapped" with technology reveals new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushers in ...
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 ...
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 ...