The classic thought experiment known as the “trolley problem” asks: Should you pull a lever to divert a runaway trolley...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow throughout the brain, has been used over the past...
University of Liverpool computer scientists have solved a long-standing algorithmic puzzle to speed up a core building block of Python,...
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A new tool could help make code reading, navigating and editing more accessible and efficient for blind and low-vision computer...
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University of Virginia cognitive scientist Per Sederberg has a fun experiment you can try at home. Take out your smartphone...
Moore’s Law needs a hug. The days of stuffing transistors on little silicon computer chips are numbered, and their life...
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