Stephen Hawking’s last paper on black holes is now online

Stephen Hawking never stopped trying to unravel the mysteries surrounding black holes — in fact, he was still working to solve one of them shortly before his death. Now, his last research paper on the subject is finally available online through pre-publication website ArXiV, thanks to his co-authors from Cambridge and Harvard. It’s entitled Black […]

Recommended Reading: Saving Stephen Hawking’s voice

The quest to save Stephen Hawking’s voice Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle There’s no doubt Stephen Hawking will be remembered for his work on black holes and relativity, but he will also be remembered for his distinctive voice. San Francisco Chronicle tells the story of the Silicon Valley team that helped create, and later save, […]

AI Weekly: We should remember Stephen Hawking’s nuanced opinion of AI

I usually cringe whenever Stephen Hawking’s name comes up in a conversation about AI. If the world was divided into critics and believers, Hawking would certainly fall into the AI critic column, but slotting him there ignores a great deal of nuance to his position on artificial intelligence. With his death earlier this week, I […]

Scientists recall stories of how they crashed into Stephen Hawking’s wheelchair

AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove   The scientific community in Australia paid tribute paid to Stephen Hawking who died aged 76.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Why we knock on wood, and the truth about 7 other common superstitions See Also: Stephen Hawking had a ‘sense of humor as vast as the […]