BTS was forced to live stream a global press conference due to the risk of infection. Which plague is worse: the coronavirus, or BTS? The coronavirus is an antidote for K-pop. One of the most disastrous plagues to come out of eastern Asia has been stopped in its tracks by the coronavirus. BTS, the world’s…
Trump is heaping praise on the Chinese president Xi Jinping for his government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. But many believe Chinese authorities are downplaying the severity of the situation. Trump’s tweets come at an interesting time for U.S/China relations. The trade deal is entering effect. And an election is just around the corner. Amid…
Machine learning and AI may be deployed on such grand tasks as finding exoplanets and creating photorealistic people, but the same techniques also have some surprising applications in academia: DeepMind has created an AI system that helps scholars understand and recreate fragmentary ancient Greek texts on broken stone tablets. These clay, stone or metal tablets,…
