Makers and DIY-ers now have a shiny new computer to build things from. Asus just launched the Tinker Board, its own version of a single-board computer — a form factor popularized largely by Raspberry Pi. Engineers and educators use these…
David Silver was the main programmer on the AlphaGo team at DeepMind.Google DeepMind Students at University College London (UCL) are being given the chance to learn under researchers at DeepMind — an artificial intelligence (AI) lab that was acquired by…
Sometimes the consumer electronics industry tries to sell a new technology that consumers thoroughly reject — and as a result, it goes on the trash pile of products that were "before their time," to put it nicely. Here’s a great…
Illustration: Jim Cooke/Gizmodo Welcome back to Giz Asks, a series where we ask experts hard questions about science, technology, and humanity’s future. Today, we’re wondering about the “speed of dark,” and for that matter, the scientific nature of “speed” and…
Image: Carnegie Mellon University We’re at the halfway point of the epic 20-day, 150,000-hand “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” Texas Hold’em Poker tournament, and a machine named Libratus is trouncing a quartet of professional human players. Should the machine maintain its…
Reuters/Fredy Builes Marijuana’s official designation as a Schedule 1 drug — something with “no accepted medical use” — means it is pretty tough to study. Yet both a growing body of research and numerous anecdotal reports link cannabis with several…
It’s actually happening. Donald Trump will order the construction of his ill-conceived Mexican border wall, White House officials said Tuesday night. More details will come Wednesday, Trump announced in a tweet … before he deleted it. Was he suddenly gripped…
There are now as many internet users in China as there are people in Europe Image: Hu yan/Imaginechina By Yi Shu Ng2017-01-25 07:35:33 UTC China now has 731 million people online — or nearly the entire population of Europe, according…
Google is intending to expand the dev tools available to makers using the Raspberry Pi microprocessor to power their projects this year — potentially offering software tools for face- and emotion-recognition, speech-to-text translation, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, predictive analytics and more. The company…
This isn’t some neat CGI wallpaper or a bit of deep space photography. It’s a gorgeously detailed picture of a practical model, hand-made and then intricately shot to a make it look just as good as any scifi vista you’ll…