This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 16)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Facebook Is Researching AI Systems That See, Hear, and Remember Everything You Do
James Vincent | The Verge
" imagines AI systems that are constantly...
The World’s Electronic Waste This Year Will Weigh More Than the Great Wall of...
It’s widely known that the world has a plastics problem. From landfills to the ocean, the stuff is everywhere, and our conscientious efforts to...
Scientists Find the First Known Planet to Have Survived the Death of Its Star
How will the solar system die? It’s a hugely important question that researchers have speculated a lot about, using our knowledge of physics to...
Microsoft’s Massive New Language AI Is Triple the Size of OpenAI’s GPT-3
Just under a year and a half ago OpenAI announced completion of GPT-3, its natural language processing algorithm that was, at the time, the...
Is Reality a Game of Quantum Mirrors? A New Theory Suggests...
Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the...
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AI-Powered Brain Implant Eases Severe Depression With a Zap of Electricity
Sarah hadn’t laughed in five years.
At 36 years old, the avid home cook has struggled with depression since early childhood. She tried the whole...
Intel’s Brain-Inspired Loihi 2 Chip Can Hold a Million Artificial Neurons
Computer chips that recreate the brain's structure in silicon are a promising avenue for powering the smart robots of the future. Now Intel has...
This Asteroid May Be the Shard of a Dead Protoplanet—and Have More Metal Than...
It’s often said Earth’s resources are finite. This is true enough. But shift your gaze skyward for a moment. Up there, amid the stars,...
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Algorithm Is Now Producing Billions of Words a Day
When OpenAI released its huge natural-language algorithm GPT-3 last summer, jaws dropped. Coders and developers with special access to an early API rapidly discovered...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 9)
NEUROSCIENCE
How the World's Biggest Brain Maps Could Transform Neuroscience
Alison Abbott | Nature
"To truly understand how the brain works, neuroscientists also need to know how...
This Bipedal Drone Robot Can Walk, Fly, Skateboard, and Slackline
Most animals are limited to either walking, flying, or swimming, with a handful of lucky species whose physiology allows them to cross over. A...
How Musicologists and Scientists Used AI to Complete Beethoven’s Unfinished 10th Symphony
When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many...
NASA’s Mission to Crash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid Launches Next Month
In March of this year, a quarter-mile-wide asteroid flew through space at a speed of 77,000 miles per hour. It was five times farther...
Moonshot Project Aims to Understand and Beat Cancer Using Protein Maps
Understanding cancer is like assembling IKEA furniture.
Hear me out. Both start with individual pieces that make up the final product. For a cabinet, it’s...
