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Why Women Choose Differently at Work

What does the most recent data on women’s preferences regarding work tell us?

IBM Is Sending a Floating Robot Head Into Space

Called CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), the new crew member is about the size of a medicine ball and will work alongside human astronauts in space. The “floating brain” is equipped with IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology and is expected to assist astronauts during the European Space Agency’s Horizons mission in June.

Astronomers detect earliest evidence yet of hydrogen in the universe

There Is Actually a Point to Putting a 4G Network On the Moon

Slow Thought: a manifesto

The only thing for certain is that everything changes. The rate of change increases. If you want to hang on, you better speed up.

Seeing the brain’s electrical activity

MIT researchers have come up with a new way to measure electrical activity in the brain. Their new light-sensitive protein can be embedded into neuron membranes, where it emits a fluorescent signal that indicates how much voltage a particular cell is experiencing. This could allow scientists to study how neurons behave, millisecond by millisecond, as the brain performs a particular function.

HotSwap: Bringing hot code reloading to Buck

Every day hundreds of Facebook engineers make thousands of code changes, each of which requires at least one, and usually many, iterations of the edit-compile-run development cycle. To speed up this process, we built and open-sourced Buck, a build tool designed from the ground up for fast iteration, allowing engineers to compile and run changes quickly.

How and why our experiments with virtual reality motion made us ill

Mobile Real-time Video Segmentation

We use big convolution kernels with large strides of four and above to detect object features on the high-resolution RGB input frame. Convolutions for layers with a small number of channels (as it is the case for the RGB input) are comparably cheap, so using big kernels here has almost no effect on the computational costs.

Can AI Ever Learn To Follow Its Gut?

Academics, economists, and AI researchers often undervalue the role of intuition in science. Here’s why they’re wrong.