More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...
Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...
A rising junior at Yale College, Micah Gold can pilot drones and write algorithms. He’ll utilize both skills this summer in central Greece as part of a unique archaeological project. Gold is part of a ...
How did the ancient Greeks think about technology? Were they techno-optimists or pessimists? How do their myths – of Pandora, Odysseus, Talos, and Icarus – parallel to the technological possibilities ...
I gave a lecture recently at the Hellenic Library at Bellflower, California. I spoke about the Antikythera Mechanism: a 2,200 years-old computer that predicted the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon and ...
The world’s first robot operated in Ancient Greece—the automatic maid was the name of a technological miracle during the ...
is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Machine learning techniques are providing new tools that could help archaeologists understand the past — ...
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