22 Dec Happy Solstice!

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Happy Solstice!

20 Dec Japanese Tip: An Exhibition of 8,000 Chopstick Sleeve Sculptures Left Behind at Restaurants

Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture

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19 Dec How people around the world celebrate the winter solstice

For most of the world’s population, this Thursday (Dec. 21) will be the shortest day and longest night of the year as the winter solstice kicks in. The day marks the beginning of winter for the northern hemisphere when the sun’s rays are directly over the Tropic of Capricorn, the southernmost latitude (23.5° S

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15 Dec AI cracks CAPTCHAs after little training

Machines masquerading as humans have never had it so easy. New artificial intelligence can crack a range of CAPTCHAs — tests commonly used by websites to check if a user is a person or robot — with very little practice.

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15 Dec A new form of matter has been discovered

Scientists have identified a new form of matter, the existence of which has been theorised for 50 years. The substance is known as “excitonium”. It is made up of excitons – unusual particles made up of an escaped electron and the hole it has left behind in a material.

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15 Dec Unseen Ways AI is Making the World a Better Place –

Despite what the media tends to depict, artificial intelligence is being put to better use than winning video games andRea

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08 Dec Google has released a machine learning AI tool that makes sense of your genome

AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies. Almost 15 years after scientists first sequenced the human genome, making sense of the enormous amount of data that encodes human life remains a formidable challenge. But it is also precisely the sort of problem that machine learning excels at.

Google has now released a tool called DeepVariant that uses the latest AI techniques to build a more accurate picture of a person’s genome from sequencing data. DeepVariant helps turn high-throughput sequencing readouts into a picture of a full genome. It automatically identifies small insertion and deletion mutations and single-base-pair mutations in sequencing data.

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08 Dec Pantone Colour of the Year 2018 has been announced

Pantone has announced its Colour of the Year 2018 is Ultra Violet, or Pantone 18-3838 TCX. Unveiled in “_The New York Times_”:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/fashion/pantone-color-of-the-year-2018-ultraviolet.html, the announcement is based on in-depth research, trend forecasting and analysis of current culture.

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