Annalee Newitz
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A Bizarre Statistical Fact About Patents In San Francisco
I have discovered something extremely strange about San Francisco. It has to do with how many patents the city has produced in the past 25 years.
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Why Is My Digital Assistant So Creepy?
Siri, Cortana and Alexa are robotic personal assistants, but they are also women. They live in your pockets, their skinny smart phone bodies executing your every command. They are intimate with you. But they are also, as Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore said at the Windows 10 keynote last week, “a member of your family.”
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How Human Evolution Prepared Us To Survive Future Disasters
We may be in the early stages of a disaster so profound that it could kick off a mass extinction. Does that mean humanity is doomed? No. Scientific evidence suggests that humans will survive. Find out why, in this excerpt from Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction.
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Help Search For ET Intelligence By Funding Allen Telescope Array
In April, we were saddened to find out that SETI’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA) had lost its funding and would have to shut down the world’s biggest, longest-running experiment in searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.