Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 54

Neal Stephenson interview

*The guy really has a plethora of good sense, as science fiction writers go. Neal speaks, and there’s a transcript, too

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Wired UK hanging out with the DeepMinders in London

*Not a lot of earth shattering news here for AI fans, but a lot of interesting insight into what Google DeepMind are up to on...

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Speculative No-Deal Brexit

*I’ve been reading this stuff for three years now, and it this is a pretty good example of a genre that will disappear the the...

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Bitcoin atomic bombs

Whoever would have guessed?

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Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue

*Oh for heaven’s sake. *It’s a press release. News Release Monday 5 August 2019 Artificial tongue could have whisky counterfeiting licked An artificial ‘tongue’ which...

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The Spomenik Database

In Ruins, Destroyed, Expunged Annotations: It is important to note that many of the monument sites pin-pointed on this map exist in various stages of...

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Voice Phishing

*This won’t be good. “Is this really you on the phone, boss?” “Of course it’s me, you moron! You’re fired!” —————————— Date: Mon, 15 Jul...

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Cosmography of the Local Void

*A large under-dense region. How strange the universe is. A video map of the Local Void, a large underdense region of the Universe, on the...

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Crime novels becoming historical novels

*Via POLITICO EUROPE. Peter May, author   Peter May was trying to find the place where he killed a journalist and a British government minister....

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SUPERFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

_SUPERFICIAL INTELLIGENCE_ Publication Launch and Unconventional Panel Presentations https://www.facebook.com/events/24402... Should we be afraid of machine learning systems stealing jobs, invading privacy and spreading discrimination? Why...

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