Courtney Linder

“I don’t envy anyone who is leading cybersecurity anywhere these days.”

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That could mean the difference between machines that play chess online, and machines that can actually pick up a pawn.

To shove it in a bowl of rice or not to shove it in a bowl of rice? That is the question.

You know the scent. Now meet the source.

The good news: you own your data. The bad news? That’s only true while you’re alive.

It’s much less sinister than you think.

Earth is destined for disaster. This is a good insurance policy.

Wigner’s Friend is a paradox in quantum physics that describes the states of two people: one conducts an experiment, and the other observes that first person.Traditionally, the thought experiment shows that you can’t take another person’s observations at face value—your reality isn’t necessarily theirs. Researchers from Austria and Canada have proven that it’s more complicated than that: you can’t even trust your own observations from the past. If you read this story, can you be sure that it rea…

Backflips are cool as hell, but they’re just the means to a research end.