In a world labeled as “post-truth”, where facts and scientific evidence have become subjective, some researchers are investigating how false beliefs are not only formed, but seemingly strengthened, when presented with contradictory evidence.
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Chinese scientists have smashed the quantum entanglement distance record. Transmitting information through entangled photons had previously only been possible to 100 km (62 mi), but using the Micius satellite launched in August, information has effectively been teleported 1,200 km (746 mi).
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A new study suggests that encoding information using corkscrew-shaped laser beams could help us keep pace with our ever-increasing data demands.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation and other information privacy advocates have created Canary Watch, a database of common online companies' acknowledgments that they have not been ordered by government entities to release private user information.
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LaMetric is a customizable "smart ticker" designed to help navigate the daily information avalanche by delivering the specific information you need on one simple interface – from weather forecasts to stock prices to social media updates to account balances.
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With the goal of developing a robot able to understand natural language commands, the Cornell University "Tell Me Dave" project is getting robots to learn complex tasks by seeing and doing, thereby continually learning without written software updates.
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Researchers in Uruguay and in Louisiana have succeeded in forming a loop quantum gravity model of a quantum black hole. The result is that predictions of physics-ending singularities vanish, and are replaced by bridges to another universe.
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A sapphire disk etched in platinum could preserve information for future generations to decipher 10 million years from now.
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A new study has estimated how much information there is in the world in terms of how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute.
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Wikipedia celebrates its tenth birthday on 15 January: it now features roughly 17 million articles in 270 languages, all created by a volunteer community, and is consulted by more than 400 million people every month.
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