Mordechai Rorvig

AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools

New AI tools CLIP+VQ-GAN can create impressive works of art based on just a few words of input.
Mordechai Rorvig
7.11.21
tech-science

NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures

Detecting 'technosignatures' such as hypothetical Dyson spheres in space could lead us to extraterrestrial life, and now NASA is funding the search.
Mordechai Rorvig
7.9.21
Tech news

This Brain-Scanning Quantum Device Is a 'Game Changer,' Researchers Say

“The difference between having a sensor only a millimeter away... from the conventional superconducting sensors that are centimetres away, is gigantic."
Mordechai Rorvig
6.18.21
tech-science

We Should Look for Star-Sized Supercomputers to Find Aliens, This Researcher Says

Computers powered by entire stars, built by alien civilizations, might be a tell-tale sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, says Anders Sandberg of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute.
Mordechai Rorvig
6.10.21
Tech news

Scientists Successfully Entangled Quantum 'Memories'. What?

In the latest advance towards a quantum internet, scientists entangled "memories" located in separate labs.
Mordechai Rorvig
6.3.21
Abstract

Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Help Explain the Origins of Life

An enduring question about how we got here is how a vat of primordial chemicals might have turned into life. Now, scientists are attempting to pull it off themselves.
Mordechai Rorvig
3.10.21
tech-science

Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen

Pushing the boundaries of math requires great minds to pose fascinating problems. What if a machine could do it? Now, scientists created one that can.
Mordechai Rorvig
2.10.21
tech-science

OK, WTF Are ‘Virtual Particles’ and Do They Actually Exist?

Invisible and mysterious 'virtual particles' are everywhere, mediating all of reality that we interact with every day... or are they?
Mordechai Rorvig
5.11.20
graphs

How to Read the Coronavirus Graphs

"Flatten the curve" works for linear graphs. But we're increasingly seeing exponential growth plotted on logarithmic graphs.
Mordechai Rorvig
4.7.20
Science

Mathematicians Are Studying Planet-Sized Quantum Computers With God-Like Powers

New research has exploded the space of problems that quantum computers can efficiently verify, simultaneously knocking down milestone problems in quantum physics and math.
Mordechai Rorvig
2.11.20
cryptography

The CIA’s Infamous, Unsolved Cryptographic Puzzle Gets a ‘Final Clue’

"Even once it’s cracked, it’s gonna be a riddle, something that’s still controversial and hard to figure out," the creator of the Kryptos puzzle sculpture says.
Mordechai Rorvig
1.31.20
Science

This Computer Is Made Entirely Out of Chemicals

It is the first ever example of a "chemical Turing machine," a vat of liquid chemicals that can compute.
Mordechai Rorvig
1.7.20
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