You’re connected with hundreds of people — maybe even thousands — on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. But when you log in to each of these social networks, it’s likely that you don’t want to be bombarded by every single update from every…
3 years ago the words Artificial Intelligence evoked powerful sensations in me. Entering that world felt like taking a step into the mysteries and secrets of the future. I was mind-blown by the promises of intelligent machines, capable of solving tasks forever reserved to…
The classic 1995 crime film The Usual Suspects revolves around the police interrogation of Roger “Verbal” Kint, played by Kevin Spacey. Kint paraphrases Charles Baudelaire, stating that “the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” The implication is…
It currently takes about 24 hours, and costs about 1,000 pounds, to sequence a human genome today. That might seem expensive or cheap depending on how you look at it but, for some perspective, it is worth considering how much it cost…
The technique, inspired by quantum cryptography, would allow large medical databases to be tapped for causal links
