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PSA Camiguin fast-tracks digitalization of civil registry services

CAMIGUIN (PIA) — The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Camiguin is accelerating the rollout of the Electronic Civil ...

Did European hunter-gatherers, not Egyptians, record first ‘writing’? Scientists study 40,000 year-old signs

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Humans may have used these mysterious symbols to encode information tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems

Roughly 40,000 years ago, humans living in present-day Europe carved a variety of geometric signs into pendants, tools and figurines. Now, according to a new paper in the journal PNAS, researchers ...
Science Daily

40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

40,000-year-old markings may be the roots of script

Despite the structural parallels to protocuneiform, the researchers caution that the Ice Age markings are not akin to later scripts that encode speech, and they do not attempt to read the signs. Still ...
EurekAlert!

Signs on Stone Age objects: Precursor to written language dates back 40,000 years

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...
Discover Magazine

40,000-Year-Old Stone Age Symbols May Be a Precursor to Written Language

Learn how researchers analyzed 3,000 Paleolithic symbols to uncover structured information comparable to early writing systems.

Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...
eLife

Inverted encoding of neural responses to audiovisual stimuli reveals super-additive multisensory enhancement

A multivariate analysis of electroencephalography activity reveals super-additive enhancements to the neural encoding of audiovisual stimuli, providing new insights into how the brain integrates ...

Economics of Video are Revisited as Next Generation of Codecs Emerge

Previous iterations of the codec narrative have produced predictable outcomes with incremental efficiency gains, gradual deployment, and long-tail coexistence with previous standards. The same is ...
The Manila Times

WiMi Releases Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Network (H-QNN) Technology for Efficient MNIST Binary Image Classification

WiMi Releases Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Network (H-QNN) Technology for Efficient MNIST Binary Image Classification ...