A System To Reproduce Different Animal Locomotion Skills In Robots | Ingrid Fadelli

Credit: Google May 1, 2020 (Tech Xplore) -- Researchers at Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, have recently developed an imitation learning system that could enable a variety ...

Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy | Jennifer Grygiel

July 24, 2019 (The Conversation) -- As the 2020 election approaches, there is much public concern that what was dubbed “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential election could happen again. But wha ...

The Twilight of the Monofuture | John Michael Greer

July 31, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m pleased to say that my post here two weeks ago, on the way that belief in progress depends on a certain kind of historical amnesia, got a lively and mostly though ...

Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer

Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to extr ...

Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors | Louise Lerner

Credit: Petr Kratochvil/public domain July 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the ...

Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control | Ellen Brown

June 27, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated -- not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the ...

On-demand, photonic entanglement synthesizer | Thamarasee Jeewandara

Various types of entanglement. (A) Types of entanglement that can be generated by our entanglement synthesizer. (B) Types of entanglement that are actually generated and verified in this experiment. ...

Hubble and Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way | ESA/Hubble Information Center

This artist's impression shows a computer-generated model of the Milky Way and the accurate positions of the globular clusters used in this study surrounding it. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Calçada ...

Securing the 'internet of things' in the quantum age | Rob Matheson

MIT researchers have developed a novel chip that can compute complex quantum-proof encryption schemes efficiently enough to protect low-power “internet of things” (IoT) devices. Credit: Massachusetts ...

From An 8 Percent Jewish Guy | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 This writer recently had a DNA ancestry done. In addition to my ancestry being overwhelmingly Italian, I found out two interes ...

America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress | John Michael Greer

Credit: Dawid MichalczykOct. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history can ...