Ryan is a lifestyle and culture journalist born and raised in the Philippines. He primarily covers film, television, music, and all things pop culture. Beyond writing, you can find him buried in ...

OK Computer is one of those albums that’s so hallowed that even contrarians have a hard time finding reasons to knock it. Radiohead put it all together on their third album in 1997, settling in the ...

As a teenager in the Czech Republic, Lenka Zdeborová glimpsed her future in an Isaac Asimov novel. A character in Asimov’s “Foundation” series invents a mathematical method for predicting the path of ...

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The funeral director said “AI” as if it were a normal element of memorial services, like caskets or flowers. Of all places, I had not expected artificial intelligence to follow me into the small, ...

We love this new tune about drunk computers from Futureboy 5000, a DJ who mashes up old science fiction with newfangled beats. And yes, that is a very strange Michael Jackson impersonator playing the ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

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