In August 1998, 700 people came to Boulder, Colorado to attend the founding convention of the Mars Society. The group’s cofounder and president, Robert...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off
Matthew Smith | IEEE Spectrum
"The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no...
CRISPR has a problem: an embarrassment of riches.
Ever since the gene editing system rocketed to fame, scientists have been looking for variants with better...
How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know...
We don’t think twice about using our hands throughout the day for tasks that still thwart sophisticated robots—pouring coffee without spilling when half-awake, folding...
CRISPR-based therapies just hit another milestone.
In a small clinical trial with 10 people genetically prone to dangerously high levels of cholesterol, a single infusion...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google DeepMind’s AI Pop Star Clone Will Freak You Out
Angela Watercutter | Wired
"Two new tools using DeepMind’s music generation algorithm Lyria let anyone...
Quantum advantage is the milestone the field of quantum computing is fervently working toward, when a quantum computer can solve problems that are beyond...
