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  • Whales and dolphins found “almost human” culture and society

    Whales and dolphins (cetaceans) live in cohesive social groups, have a complicated relationship, talking to each other and even have regional dialects — almost like in human society. A large new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, tied to the complexity of culture and behavior of cetaceans with the size of their brains. The…

  • How does it work? | Computer vision

    As an independent discipline computer vision originated in the early 50-ies of the last century. In 1951 John von Neumann proposed to analyze microsemi using computers by comparing the brightness of adjacent parts of the image. In 60-ies began research in the field of pattern recognition, machine and handwriting. Then they made the first attempts…

  • Israeli startup Eviation launch air taxi operations in 2019

    Israeli startup Eviation Aircraft has already shown a working prototype of its small electric aircraft at the Paris International Airshow this summer. Then the representatives of the company announced his position to make in the near future the aviation analogue of Uber and other similar services. The aim is to reduce the cost of flying…

  • Cryptocurrency transfers: the Board, tricks, and pitfalls

    The other day we casually scare you a Commission for transactions in Bitcoin network, so today, together with the site 2bitcoins decided to talk about why sometimes it’s not so scary, but at the same time to explain how to make these cryptocurrency transfers. When we use the mobile banking app or the web version,…

  • Will technology replace teachers?

    During the development of robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies of the future the qualified professionals are increasingly there is the fear: will not replace or machine the representatives of their profession in the foreseeable future? Technology including penetrate in the education sector, so it’s time to understand, whether has in General sense to study…

  • The signals aliens might be too complicated for us

    “Each of these stars can be new York, Paris, London, and we even about it do not suspect,” says Nate Tellis, University of California, Berkeley, commenting on the analysis 5600 stars, conducted by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, where one of the most powerful telescopes in the world, last spring. Tellis, in search of laser…

  • Toyota is working to create a sentient talking car

    The engineers of the Japanese company are working on a new prototype car running artificial intelligence and able to understand people, to communicate with them. The machine will be able to note changes in behavior and driving style of the person, but also will determine the mood and health of the driver. Based on these…

  • Mining cryptocurrencies requires more electricity than all of Syria

    The miner, which right now under the table, buzzing, mining cryptocurrency, computer or even a small farm, certainly not too often think about how much all these graphics cards, extracting “bitki”, “guzzle”? A lot, Yes — that’s understandable coming every month electricity bills. But as all miners of the world are wasting electricity? Let’s find…

  • 10 interesting channels in the Telegram about science and not only

    Recently, the channels in the Telegram messenger has become so popular that replaced a lot of social networks and familiar media. Everyone in our newsroom also has its own selection of interesting channels, so we decided to gather a little from each and to share them with you. Naked Science Very interesting channel dedicated to…

  • Scientists have found the perfect place to build underground colonies on the moon

    For many years scientists have tried to understand whether the dark crater pit on the surface of the natural satellite of the Earth entrance in a network of underground caves that millions of years ago was filled with lava. Finally, researchers from Japan and the United States came to the conclusion that it is true.…