The sensational euthanasia angle crowded out the scientific story about the remarkable advances being made in connectomics—the science of figuring out a brain’s complete wiring diagram—and the once-absurd dream that it might one day be possible to upload a mind into the cloud, Ray Kurzweil-style, achieving cyber-immortality. Although “it will be at least 50 years before the first human mind is successfully uploaded and 100 years before it’s routine,” Hayworth said, he regards it as not only scientifically possible but ethically imperative....

The Xbox PC app will have custom game folders The Xbox PC app will have custom game folders When you download a game using the Xbox PC app, the files will go to a folder specified by the app, and there’s no way of changing it. This is a bummer because most gamers like to keep their game files compartmentalized. This helps with organization when they’ve collected a bunch of games....

Generalizations anyone? American regional stereotypes date back to the 17th century, when Virginians thought Massachusetts Bay colonists were an awfully intolerant lot. Obviously, many of our jokes about people from different parts of the country exaggerate their character traits just a bit, but a new field of research—the geography of personality—finds that even if some regional stereotypes are fictions, Americans with similar temperaments do seem to cluster. The research has implications both practical and philosophical....

The YouTube music port isn’t optimized for smartwatch screens The YouTube music port isn’t optimized for smartwatch screens The developer is Alexandru Pop, and this news comes from XDA Developers. Pop was able to develop a port of the app that can run on older versions of Wear OS. While this sounds impressive (and the developer does deserve praise for this) it’s not the most stable implementation. The software runs, but it’s rather clunky and unstable....

The video transcriptions tool has been available on YouTube, but it was only for the desktop version. It allows people to see a fully AI-generated transcript of the video complete with a time-code to help you follow along. While that’s nice, people have been wanting it on mobile for a while. YouTube video transcriptions are coming to the app YouTube video transcriptions are coming to the app However, it seems that their prayers were answered....