In maintaining the principle of taking an ‘eye for an eye’ those states of the American south that continue to champion the death penalty is suffering from a disillusionment that to kill the killer, is an equal exchange for the devastation of his crime, when even to make him sufferRead More →
Right now in America, 3,108 people sit in 6-foot cells waiting to die. The finality of the death sentence brings with it the assertion that the lives of these convicts, predominantly men, are entirely worthless. Yet on average, the lengthy bureaucratic process will allow their condemned existences to continue absurdlyRead More →
The topic of rape is one of the most sensitive. It is kind of hard to even talk about it. It is something that people try to ignore, because there is always not enough power for girls to protect themselves and, moreover it is so shameful to admit it andRead More →
Pippa Adler, added: “Social media tends to make people reckless like there are a lot of people who are very quick to support a hashtag or share a viral video, only to later find out that they don’t agree with the maker of these things.” Feminism recently took a knockRead More →
Realistically we could have a long way to go: AI has been an emerging field with an idealistic future since its conception. In his book, Supertineglirence Nick Bostrom from the Oxford Martin School’s Future of Humanity Institute cites the probability of reaching human-level machine intelligence as 10% by 2022, 50%Read More →
Industry heads muse on the potential threat of AI We’re not quite at the point of Skynet seeking to destroy us all, we are however living through a period that sees artificial intelligence increasing in not just its power but also in intelligence: that time you swore at Siri forRead More →
In the global space race, India has successfully put a satellite into Mars’ orbit for around a budget £45.6 million (just over half the budget of Hollywood blockbuster Gravity). The Mars Orbiter Mission was placed into the Red Planet’s atmosphere after 300 days and 420 million miles of travelling, onRead More →