Magnetic sensors track muscle movement, for better prosthetic limb control

New system gives users more control over their online experience

How We Control What Accents We Pick Up

"You can fight the premise that AI is a better writer than the best human, but you’ll be whistling past the graveyard of dead writers and metaphors"

How the biggest Alzheimer’s risk gene disrupts the process of insulating neurons

When Frog Eyes Are Like Fingerprints

Is the book business distressed? Anxious? Optimistic? All of the above

Trump Hands Alliant Energy $5.1 Billion in Loans Ahead of Key Midterm Races in Iowa and Wisconsin

Max Tegmark: AI Is Not a Tool, It’s a New Species

If AI Doesn’t Kill Us, What Then?

ICE is Now Even More Unpopular than the IRS

Grant Sanderson: There’s never been a better time to go into math

Public Control for a Purposeful Economy

Under Proposed Treasury Rule, Corporate Homebuyers Who Don't Track Their Receipts Face $1 Million Fines

Trump Wants To Force Data Centers To 'Make Their Own Electricity.' Deregulation Would Work Better.

Gunter Stein, control systems and theory expert, dies at 84

Is a Chinese Implosion Looming?

This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices

Open Thread

NY Health Commissioner Says "Mother Nature" Is Punishing Amish Children With Measles Outbreak

We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw this crisis coming – and foresaw its consequences