Weaponizing Facebook: How the Social Media Giant Manipulates Your Mind GregMonday, April 9th Excerpted from the short ebook Weaponizing Facebook: How Companies Like Cambridge Analytica Are Manipulating Your Mind, and What You Can Do About It, ... 2 Comments12 min read
Paint Me Like One of Your Human Girls: AI-Generated Art and the Limits of Perception red pill junkieTuesday, April 3rd Several websites have picked up on the story of Robbie Barrat, an AI researcher at Stanford who trained a Generated Adversarial Network (GAN) how to 'paint' nud... 2 Comments4 min read
The Forgotten Power of the Imagination GregTuesday, March 6th In the modern, scientific age the word 'imagination' tends to have a sense of being the inverse of 'reality' - a non-substantial 'escape' from the real world wh... 8 Comments2 min read
Boston Dynamics ‘Test the Robustness’ of their SpotMini Robot and Seal Our Doom GregWednesday, February 21st Uh-oh, those Boston Dynamics guys are at it again. Not content to bully their humanoid Atlas robot, now they're smacking their robot dog SpotMini on the head wi... 1 Comment1 min read
Why Finding Alien Life Would Be a Horrible Thing for Humanity GregWednesday, February 14th I want to believe. But maybe I shouldn't want to, as finding alien life - of The X-Files type, or even something much more basic, such as single-celled life-for... 3 Comments1 min read
Starman, Driving in the Sky: SpaceX Puts a Tesla Roadster in Space GregWednesday, February 7th The internet had it's collective mind blown today when Elon Musk's SpaceX undertook a test-launch of its 'Falcon Heavy' rocket (a strengthened Falcon 9 with two... 0 Comments4 min read
The (Not-So-) Unlikely Worlds of Paul McAuley GregTuesday, February 6th Science fiction has always been a wonderful way of exploring where the cutting edge of science might take us in the future, and one of the best authors in that ... 0 Comments11 min read
Bulls in an A.I. Shop: The Westworld Season 2 Trailer is Here! GregMonday, February 5th HBO's sci-fi series Westworld has been on hiatus for the past year, but season 2 returns in April this year - and the trailer for the new season landed as an ad... 1 Comment1 min read
The Executable Dreamtime: Language, Magic, and the Universe as Code GregFriday, January 5th by Mark Pesce (This article is excerpted from Darklore Volume 7, which is available from Amazon US and Amazon UK. For more information on the series, includi... 0 Comments26 min read
Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Can Now Do Backflips GregFriday, November 17th Just in case you had nightmares about Terminator-style robots trampling on puny, flesh-constructed bodies when the robopocalypse eventually comes around, never ... 2 Comments0 min read
