#computer science
# space
A new Singularitarians' approach to space exploration: why bother going to space when we could simulate anything we want after the Singularity?
# science
A new experiment is attempting to find out whether we may be living in some sort of simulation.
# tech
Military bureaucrats and the public is learning how messy and complicated huge programming projects can be thanks to the F-35.
# tech
We've reached a phase in computer development when everything old is new again. And this approach can work. Up to a point.
# tech
We evolved to be social animals that live in close-knit communities. But sharing minds via brain implants with our fellow humans may be far too much for us right now.
# tech
Xanadu was the ultimate nightmare project for any programmer. And we're lucky it was never completed, much less lived up to its lofty goals.
# tech
First, Congress was telling engineers how to build their rockets. Now it's telling programmers how to write their software.
# tech
If you're going to network thousands of important devices together, make sure your network is actually secure.
# tech
Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.
# tech
The flip side of technophobia and lamentations about the dehumanizing effect of gadgets? Trying to force everyone to code and insisting it's a vital skill, like literacy.
# tech
AI enthusiasts love to write about machines as black boxes with inputs and outputs because they don't know how they would actually be built.
# tech
The jobs tech execs are thinking would be gained through monetized crowdsourcing don't seem like the kind of sustainable jobs we'll need in the future.
# tech
North Korea's computer-based insult towards South Korea's head of state was supposed to be meaningless but offensive nonsense. Too bad pop sci writers took the bait and tried to explain it anyway.
# astrobiology
A study using soldier crabs to emulate computers is actually a perfect illustration of how different alien computing could be.
# tech
Pseudoscience and fact-free manifestos, now with anger management issues...