Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

A protocol to realize near-perfect atom-photon entanglement

Quantum technologies, devices and systems that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could tackle some tasks more ...
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40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Enigmatic symbols found in Germany rewrites origin of writing

These mysterious Stone Age symbols from 40,000 years ago could be writing’s earliest predecessors - Information encoded in ...

40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...
Opinion

Forcing AI Makers To Legally Carve Out Mental Health Capabilities And Use LLM Therapist Apps Instead

Some believe that AI firms of generic AI ought to be forced into leaning into customized LLMs that do mental health support. Good idea or bad? An AI Insider analysis.
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Seahawks fans form human '12' at Avista Stadium

At 12:12 pm Friday, Hawks fans took a photo of their creation, an idea spearheaded by the man behind the idea of the 12s. How a $30 billion welfare program became a 'slush fund' for states Rock the ...
GitHub

FoRM: Foot-driven Reconstruction of Human Motion Using Dual-Modal Plantar Pressure and Inertial Sensing

[2025.09.12] We have released the HAMPI dataset and FoRMNet checkpoints. [2025.09.01] Our paper has been published in IMWUT 2025! FoRM/ ├── assets/ # Contains SMPL models and other static resources │ ...
The Conversation

A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form

Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University Born on the same day, Bill and Ben both grew up to have high status. But in every other way they ...
The New York Times

An Artist’s Fascination With the Mystery of the Human Form

“I’ve spent my whole life looking at other people’s bodies,” says the painter Emil Sands. “I’m trying to work out why they’re different from mine.” By Rose Courteau The British artist Emil Sands often ...
Nature

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...
Yahoo

Hundreds form anti-ICE human banner at SF's Ocean Beach

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds created an anti-ICE banner in response to the recent killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents in ...