Spanish conquistadors burned thousands of khipu, the Inca's knotted-cord record-keeping system, believing they contained pagan or subversive information. But in remote villages across the Andes, ...

The Khipu Decoder lets you browse 629 historical khipus from the Open Khipu Repository / Harvard Khipu Database alongside a curated lexicon of 1,855 Quechua words categorized into 15 semantic fields.

Two things happened in Africa’s AI community this week. On 12 October, the AI researcher Nando de Freitas appealed publicly ...

1532. When the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro invaded the Inca Empire, what he saw was a civilization beyond his imagination. A paved road network—totaling approximately 40,000 kilometers ...

Every civilization leaves behind fingerprints — carvings in stone, marks on clay, patterns pressed into metal. These traces are the closest thing we have to hearing a vanished people speak. But what ...

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What do a saturation diver, a political scandal, and a man who's never slept more than two hours have in common? Nothing, except that Avi, Saijal, and Anchita went down all three rabbit holes anyway.

Comment: When the Government announced a four-month trial using AI to help write New Zealand’s biosecurity standards, Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard reassured the public that “key decisions ...

AI agents can write code, analyze data, and chat. But they can't operate a business — collect payments, issue invoices, ship products, or notify customers. Especially not in Latin America, where every ...

De Inca’s bouwden in korte tijd een enorm rijk op. Dat was lange tijd de gangbare opvatting, maar nieuwe koolstofdateringen ...