Dating apps, booze and clubbing - Jane Austen's Emma comes into the 21st Century And your pushy best friend is trying to sort out your love life. It's Jane Austen's Emma, but not as you know it. For the uninitiated, the 1815 novel follows the charmed life of our protagonist in Regency England as she busies herself interfering in her friends' relationships (or matchmaking, depending on your point of view). In Ava Pickett's fresh adaptation, being staged at London's Rose Theatre, Emma Woodhouse still has all the trademark traits of our beloved original heroine - she's clever, quick-witted, meddling, haughty and occasionally cruel. But instead of navigating society balls and dowries, Pickett's modern Emma is poking her nose into her friends' online dating profiles, having returned home after failing her exams at Oxford University.

A lot of people do, and for powerful reasons – we are facing enormous challenges unprecedented in human history, from climate change and nuclear war to engineered pandemics and malicious artificial intelligence. A 2017 survey showed that nearly four in 10 Americans think that climate change alone has a good chance of triggering humanity's extinction. But we seem largely blind to the many profound reasons for hope – and it's not entirely our fault. Humans are wired with a "negativity bias" that triggers a stronger emotional response to bad news than good news – evident in the journalism maxim "if it bleeds, it leads". This loss-aversion behavior served a purpose in our evolutionary past, when information and resources were scarce, but in the age of endless information access, it can lead to pessimism, anxiety and a distorted vision of what humanity is capable of.

Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. In this episode, we talk to N. Katherine Hayles who's the distinguished research professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University. Her prolific research focuses on the relationship between science, literature and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. We explore her newest book, Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts, and discuss how the biological concept of symbiosis can inform the relationships we have with AI; how a neural network experiences the world; and whether ChatGPT can be conscious. N. Katherine Hayles is the Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University.

When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep-sea ROV, or remotely operated vehicle. During an era of silent movies and wartime U-boats, Hartman's ambitious invention--a 1,500-pound electric, submarine camera--could be lowered to a depth of 1,000 feet to capture images of sunken ships and submerged treasures. Despite featuring a gyroscope for stability, a motorized propeller for controlled rotation, and an innovative light source, as Popular Science explained, it had a serious limitation: The hulking apparatus had to be operated blindly from a ship's deck, which meant it was impossible for the camera's operator to see what they were filming until the footage was viewed later. In 1925, Popular Science showcased his next breakthrough--a cylindrical apparatus (seen above) attached to a ship by a cable, housing a submersible, motor-driven camera, as well as enough room for a person who could control the camera, or communicate with crew members nearby to aid with various underwater missions, such as salvaging. The vertical, tin-can-like submarine, equipped with porthole windows and a powerful spotlight, allowed "the operator to go down into the water with a camera and photograph whatever he chooses."

On Sunday, 22 January 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington (then) Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII. With the exception of a few aging Raiders' fans, what we all remember better from that evening 40 years ago was one advertisement that set the tone for a techno-optimism that would dominate the 21st century. The ad showed an auditorium full of zombie-like figures watching a projection of an elderly leader who resembled the Emperor from 1980's The Empire Strikes Back. A young, athletic woman in red and white (the colors of the flag of Poland, which had been engaging in a massive labor uprising against the Soviet-controlled communist state) twirls a hammer and throws it through the screen framing the leader's face, just as armored police rush in to try to stop her. The ad explicitly invoked George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tore into GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy one day after the first primary debate in Milwaukee, arguing the entrepreneur's answers showed he has "absolutely no idea what he's talking about." Christie and Ramaswamy sparred over several issues during the two-hour debate from the United States' role in funding the war in Ukraine to supporting former President Donald Trump if he's convicted. Trump praised Ramaswamy's debate performance on his social media site Truth Social. Ramaswamy also praised Trump on stage as the "best president of the 21st century." "Well, I'm stunned that as I was talking about Donald Trump and all the ways that he's let down our party and our country, that he [Trump] didn't mention me as a winner of the debate last night," Christie said Thursday on "Your World."

By the mid-1980s a branch in of this field now often referred to as Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS, or more recently CTIS, Cognitive Translation and Interpretation Studies) started to investigate and model how the translators' minds work -how translators create meaning, how they arrive at strategies and translation choices, how translation competence develops, how cultural and linguistic factors impact translated text, etc. (see, e.g., Risku 2012). Studies in this line of research "refer to and expand" (Risku 2012, 675) models of the mind as developed in Cognitive Science, to explain translators' behavior and translation processes. While the first attempts to study translation as a cognitive activity date back to the 1960s and 1970s (e.g., Albir 2015, Muñoz 2017), Translation Process Research (TPR) is often said to To be published in Translation, Cognition and Behavior: "Translation and cognition in the 21st century: Goals met, goals ahead" begin in the 1980s with the analysis of thinking aloud protocols (TAP) and to investigate "What happens in the minds of translators" (Krings 1986; 2001; see also Königs 1987) and to assess "by what observable and presumed mental processes do translators arrive at their translations?"

A tech mogul has described the sprint to perfect artificial intelligence (AI) as the 21st century's nuclear arms race. Kevin Baragona was one of the more than 1,000 leading experts who signed an open letter on The Future of Life Institute, calling for a pause on the'dangerous race' to develop ChatGPT-like AI. Like the invention of the atomic bomb in the 1940s, Baragona told DailyMail.com'Many

'The Five' co-hosts weigh in on the creator of ChatGPT raising'major concerns' regarding the implications of how artificial intelligence could change society. Elon Musk's proposed temporary halt in AI development would give China the freedom to surpass the U.S. and develop "the most powerful tool" in the 21st century, according to an industry expert. "We need artificial intelligence to automate and manage so much of the existing technology, as well as open the ability for us to manage a significantly larger population," Sultan Meghji, a professor at Duke University's Pratt Engineering School, told Fox News Digital. "We will not be able to do that without artificial intelligence." "As we consider our global competition with the People's Republic of China and others," Meghji, who served as the first chief innovation officer for the FDIC, argued, "artificial intelligence is the most powerful tool in our toolbox, and I don't want to lose the 21st century to the Chinese."

On Dec. 13, 2018, Richard Branson stood in the Mojave Desert, eyes fixed skyward as he witnessed the culmination of a lifelong dream: His space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, had sent an aircraft into suborbital space. For Branson, the launch was not merely proof of concept for his latest business venture. It signaled that humanity was on the edge of a fundamental breakthrough. "Today we have shown that Virgin Galactic can open space to the world," he declared. Four days later, the prominent philosopher Todd May published a short article in the Stone, a philosophy series run through the New York Times opinion section. "Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?" asked readers to consider the possibility that the demise of humanity might be morally desirable.