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computational designer, digital explorer, Archi-Fi thinker, knowmad, digital citizen & reality alien

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Architects must plan for "armageddon situations" says Snøhetta's Kjetil Trædal Thorsen

Climate change is likely to devastate our planet, says Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. In the second part of an exclusive interview, he tells Dezeen it is "absolutely possible" to create fully CO2 negative buildings.

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The Answer for Schools Is Not More Technology. It’s Teachers and Human Connection. - EdSurge News

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Danielle Arnold-Schwartz is a teacher of elementary gifted ...

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9 Reasons Why “Children of Men” Is The Best Sci-fi Movie of The 21st Century (So Far)

Before his Oscar success with 2013’s astronaut thrill-ride, Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón sat in the director’s chair for the film adaptation of PD James' 19

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This decade belonged to China. So will the next one | Martin Jacques

The west is still finding it extraordinarily difficult to come to terms with China’s remarkable ascent, says author Martin Jacques

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NVIDIA Researchers Bring Images to Life with AI | NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA researchers have created a rendering framework called DIB-R — a differentiable interpolation-based renderer — that produces 3D objects from 2D images.

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We survive because reality may be nothing like we think it is

Cognitive scientist Donald H. Hoffman asserts that not only do we invent our own personal views of reality, it’s an evolutionary necessity.

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An AI Pioneer Wants His Algorithms to Understand the 'Why'

Deep learning is good at finding patterns in reams of data, but can't explain how they're connected. Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio wants to change that.

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How Classic Cartoons Created a Culturally Literate Generation

The cartoons from our parents' and grandparents' generations weren't mind-numbing - they were an important pathway to knowledge.

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Multimaterial 3D printing manufactures complex objects, fast

Multinozzle printer can switch between multiple inks up to 50 times per second

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Can We Genetically Engineer Humans to Survive Missions to Mars?

We might one day combine tardigrade DNA into our own cells.

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The Coming Age of Generative Biology

Flagship Pioneering's generative biology is a sea change in medicine.

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Neural network reconstructs human thoughts from brain waves in real time

Researchers from Russian corporation Neurobotics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have found a way to visualize a person's brain activity as actual images mimicking what they observe in real time. This will enable new post-stroke rehabilitation devices controlled by brain signals. The team published its research as a preprint on bioRxiv and posted a video online showing their "mind-reading" system at work.

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Meat Grown in Space for the First Time Ever

This cultivated meat is "slaughter-free."