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Fortnite's v35.10 update, launching May 15, is set to unleash a wave of Star Wars content, highlighted by the arrival of Darth Jar Jar, a fan theory t ...
The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that physical structure may not be where intelligence and consciousness ...
Science fiction loves to show us disembodied heads or brains floating in jars, but could this be one route to extending our lives? Or could you already be one living in false reality?
The Bell Jar project team at UC Santa Cruz: from left to right are postdoc Richard Dickson, graduate student Matthew Jacobs, Alec Soronow, and Euiseok Kim. (Photo by Carolyn Lagatutta) UC Santa Cruz ...
‘Agentic AI is like putting your brain in a jar’ At least that’s what Signal president Meredith Whittaker thinks about this new paradigm of computing, where AI performs tasks on users’ behalf.
A more realistic and ethical “brain in a jar” would be dead, but perfectly preserved. In 2015, scientists preserved a mouse’s neural circuitry by chemically fixing the brain’s fatty molecules and ...
TIE-wing fighters and Ewok bounty hunters abound in Disney Plus's joyful mashup miniseries in this new trailer for "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy." ...
Living brain cells wired into organoid-on-a-chip biocomputers can now learn to drive robots, thanks to an open-source intelligent interaction system called MetaBOC. This remarkable project aims to ...
From the award-winning author David Solomons comes a super-powered story that is big on laughs. My Arch-Enemy is a Brain in a Jar is out now in all good bookshops and online!