Find tips on how to make the GraphQL development process more efficient and your product better — GraphQL on its own is already a powerful tool with a client-centric approach. This article lists some tips on how to make the development process more efficient and your product better. More generally, these are the pieces of advice that you should take even before you get your hands on…

How social media, apps, and gadgets such as spirit boxes are using artificial intelligence to put us (back) in contact with the dead — In a previous article, I discussed the intricacies of advanced technology, religion and magical thoughts. …

Astrobiologist suggests an amplification on the concept of life to understand that artificial intelligence is also a development of our existence as a species — Published by the end of last month, the article AI is Life written by the astrobiologist Sara Walker proposes a new understanding of artificial intelligence or, in fact, of technology as a manifestation of life. …

The concept of quantitative aesthetic is dictating much of our personal taste. It’s about the number of streams, of followers, of tickets sold that will tell whether something is worth our precious time or not — In an article published by the end of March at ArtNews, Ben Davis presents the concept of “quantitative aesthetic”, that is, how popular taste has been dictated by metrics and statistics or how preferences can be quantified — a term that, by the way, has been popular in the tech…

Researchers mapped recurring entities being shown to users of DMT. With new techniques that extend the experience under the psychedelic drug, it might be possible to understand more about them — Planned for publication in 2024, The Illustrated Guide to the DMT Entities is a book written by the researcher David Jay Brown and the artist Sarah Phinn. …

Directed by Alice Birch and streaming on Amazon Prime, the series update the classic body horror flick by adding some bits of American Psycho to it — Recently released on Amazon Prime, the minisseries Dead Ringers updates the movie with the same name, directed by David Cronenberg. Both titles are inspired by the book Twins, written by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland. The series is directed by Alice Birch, already known for her work on The Wonder…

Since the development of the telegraph, new technologies and their supposedly unlimited possibilities are prompting us with hopes of innovation that go beyond industrial applications — The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke became famous not only for his books, such as Childhood’s End or the cinematographic collaboration with Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey. …

Despite the outrage caused by such news, how willingly are we to give up on our privileges and comforts after realizing many of them come at the cost of other beings' suffering? — Maybe you already heard about this field in robotics called soft robotics, which aims to design robots with an anatomy similar to living beings, mostly animals. …

Understanding the way other species see and interact with the world could change not only our relationship with non-human animals, but the way we interact with machines — Last week, I published an essay in which I addressed how recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) could help us read brain scans and then “translate” them into what the patient was seeing during the exam. Ultimately, this same technology could help us understand how other species see the world…