The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists

Enlarge (credit: State Historical Society of North Dakota) Bread, like wine, is pivotal in Judeo-Christian rituals. Both products exemplify the use of human ingenuity to re-create what nature provides, and the fermentation they both require must have seemed nothing less than magical to ancient minds. When toasted, rubbed with garlic and tomato, doused with olive […]

AI Made a Movie With a ‘Silicon Valley’ Star—and the Results Are Nightmarishly Encouraging

Benjamin, as the AI is known, assembled ‘Zone Out’ from thousands of hours of old films and green-screen footage of professional actors—in 48 hours. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1e0e73a928d042da61bd28/master/pass/AIFilm-ThomasMiddleditch-959030100w.jpg