Why You Can't Rely on Election Forecasts

Zeynep Tufekci, writing at The New York Times: There's a strong case for ignoring the predictions. Why do we have models? Why can't ...

Soccer Telecast Ruined When AI-Controlled Camera Mistakes Ref's Bald Head For Ball

Futurism reports: Fans of the soccer team Caledonian Thistle FC from Inverness, Scotland, experienced something hilarious this week when the...

Warming of 2°C would release billions of tons of soil carbon

Global warming of 2°C would lead to about 230 billion tons of carbon being released from the world's soil, new research suggests. from...

Intelligent cameras enhance human perception

A team of researchers has developed an intelligent camera that achieves not only high spatial and temporal but also spectral resolution. The...

Starting kindergarten on the right foot

Going into kindergarten already well-prepared gives a child advantagesgives a child many advantages later in life and lowers costs for socie...

A malformation illustrates the incredible plasticity of the brain

One in 4,000 people is born without a corpus callosum, a brain structure consisting of neural fibers that are used to transfer information b...

A New Idea: Replacing Daylight Saving Time With 'Universal Solar Time'

Most clocks are handled automatically by computers, points out Tora (Slashdot reader #65,882). So in lieu of daylight saving time, "wha...