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Plus, the QA team probably felt this a lot more then end users, testing this reset procedure thousands of times. The product team had probably received this feedback long before th…

Opera actually has this ability built-in. It lets you A/B test websites (with/without ads) by going to the URL "speedtest".

Improbable's SpatialOS is actually a really, really neat piece of tech. For the first time it's becoming easy for an independent developer to build an MMO type application. With th…

As the other commenter noted, "letting a bunch of molecules sit around" was precisely where we got intelligence from in the first place. So it is possible that we reach AI just by …

It's a problem perfectly suited to a logical AI, really. Take in the experimental observation data, and produce a solution that fits the parameters. Human intuition was the major t…

There's some intentional provocation going on with the title. Sure, it's factually correct , but choice of words really pulls the truth one way or another.

Subtly dishonest journalism in my opinion. This article could just as easily be titled "Alphabet invests $859M on long-term projects". In fact, that would be a more accurate title …

There is clearly some unstated circumstances here. One shot in the dark: what if the company was concerned for legal reasons? Since the issue had a connection to a disabled employe…

The monster itself is just a strand of RNA. The definition of living by most biologists wouldn't include a strand of genetic material. Fire replicates in particular environments, a…

The Wikipedia page doesn't do the best job at conveying the idea of the experiment, in my opinion. We've long been searching and wondering about the origin of life (aka abiogenesis…