The Strange and Surprising History of the Once-Rejected Zero

Dis-Augmented Reality is a series of works that explore the relationship between humans and digital technologies. Gilles's main objective is to rematerialize the art object and bring the images generated and designed for flat screens into real, three-dimensional space.

Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today all mathematics is based on it

This article explores how Elsevier Scopus promotes scam predatory journals like International Journal of Religion, PalArchs Journal of Archaeology of Egypt Egyptology, journal of Ecohumanism, Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology, Environment and Social Psychology, International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies, and Journal of Management World

"We're at the mercy of Google." Undecided voters in the US who turn to Google may see dramatically different views of the world – even when they're asking the exact same question.

As generative AI advances, it is easy to see it as yet another area where machines are taking over – but humans remain at the centre of AI art, just in ways we might not expect.

What a good design artifact looks like, what they’re actually for, and how to use them efficiently to achieve a better outcome for your project.

Why “audio gaps" in video meetings wear us out — and why we need the meaningful relationships forged in communal workspaces.

Reality Defender, a startup focused on AI detection, has developed a tool to verify human participants in video calls and catch fraudsters using AI deepfakes for scams.

Our phones are being overrun.

As AI deepfakes sow doubt in legitimate media, anyone can claim something didn’t happen.

A visual neuroscientist realized he saw green and blue differently to his wife. He designed an interactive site that has received over 1.5m visits

Researchers say they've observed photons exhibiting bizarre quantum behavior as the result of what's known as atomic excitation.

Argentinian developer Max Comperatore built a website that tracks how many people are engaged in common activities round the world. What The Hell Are People Doing uses estimated statistics from a number of sources to calculate global activities. At the top you'll see how many people are being born, how many are dying, and how many people are watching the stats. Underneath is a list of the things they are doing right now. Sleeping is at the top, which makes sense because we all do it for multiple hour

Xanthorox AI is NOT a "Black Hat AI". It is an advanced AI assistant primarily designed to support ethical hacking, penetration testing, cybersecurity research (for both red and blue teams), and innovative tool creation by developers. Xanthorox AI was created to provide powerful AI tools while prioritizing user privacy. By hosting the AI models on our own dedicated servers and avoiding external APIs, we ensure your data remains confidential and is never shared with third-party corporations. Our goal is to offer a secure, capable, and private AI for users who wish to fulfill their imagination and explore the boundaries of AI within ethical and legal frameworks.

On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed.

The images we are exposed to on social media and internet websites have a surprising influence on the way we view the world

In this preprint, I try to quantify how much science presently being published is fake (that is, fabricated or falsified). The working estimate is approximately 1 in 7. This should make a lot of people very angry and will be widely regarded as a bad move.

Behind AI's rapid advance and our sanitized feeds, an invisible global workforce endures unimaginable trauma.

How Codemasters took the hit toy line to the top of the videogame charts

Binge-watching television, watching YouTube videos for hours, or scrolling on your phone every morning may seem harmless, but research shows that too much screen time may be detrimental to your health.  

SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse.

Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.

Pinterest and Threads seem convinced I’m in my 60s or going through menopause. Spend enough time in the bizarro worlds of these feeds, and you can start to believe anything.