Looks like the inner planets formed *after* the gas giants moved to their current position, and Jupiter ejected a fifth giant, too!Medium From ACM Opinion | November 11, 2015
If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill which...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | November 11, 2015
Google's move to give away its latest machine-learning software, key to its speech- and photo-recognition programs, isn’t as crazy as it may appear.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | November 10, 2015
A few weeks ago, I (and a zillion other people) reported on a star about 1,500 light-years away that was acting … weirdly.Slate From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2015
It was the end of a long combat patrol near a district called Adhamiyah, in northwest Baghdad, in the fall of 2008.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2015
If you are wondering whether exposure to some chemical could increase your chances of getting colon cancer, you could easily find supportive evidence from animal...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2015
No area of physics causes more confusion, not just among the general public but also among physicists, than quantum mechanics.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | November 5, 2015
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2015
Pedro Domingos's new book is a compelling but rather unquestioning insider view of the search for the ultimate in machine learning.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2015
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
Imagine you're shopping for a new car, and the salesperson says, "Did you know, this car doesn't just drive on the road."Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2015