Expand / SHENZHEN, CHINA – AUGUST 19: A girl walks outside the headquarters of Tencent on August 19, 2020 at Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo from VCG/VCG through Getty Images) Even the US government is allegedly inspecting Chinese technology giant Tencent as well as the US gaming firms where it has an investment . […]
(credit: MIT Press) “What makes machines, animals, and people smart?” asks the subtitle of Paul Thagard’s new book. Not “Are computers smarter than humans? or “will computers ever be smarter than humans?” or even “are computers and animals conscious, sentient, or self-aware (whatever any of that might mean)?” And that’s unfortunate, becausethough most people are […]
Enlarge / Bill Nelson, former Democratic senator from Florida, appears at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday. (credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The US Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing for former Democratic Senator Bill Nelson on Wednesday to consider his nomination as NASA administrator. Nelson was warmly welcomed by his former colleagues—both Republicans […]