It was May 2000, the race to sequence the human genome was on, and UC Santa Cruz biomolecular engineering professor David Haussler was worried. A private firm named Celera Genomics was beating a path ...

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'Mad Genius' is described as 'The Matrix' meets 'Mr. Robot.' By Aaron Couch If you could hack the human brain, would that be a good thing? Heat Vision has the first trailer for the film from ...

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius -- the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes -- against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities ...

Speaking at the Bibliothèque Nationale in 2003, the year before his death, Jacques Derrida invoked an “untenable word, that no one these days would still admit holding to.” “This noun ‘genius’ ...

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For about 1500 years, bloodletting was like aspirin—a treatment administered by doctors for just about every medical trouble. Prevailing wisdom was that your body was filed with fluids called humors, ...