This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 16)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This Wild, AI-Generated Film Is the Next Step in 'Whole-Movie Puppetry'
Sam Machkovech | Ars Technica
"Their plan required Benjamin to do the following: cobble...
The More People With Purpose, the Better the World Will Be
It almost sounds too cliché to say that in order to live a fulfilling life, each of us must find our purpose. From a...
Video Gamers May Soon Be Paid More Than Top Pro Athletes
Your interest in sports may have started out as a hobby when you were just a kid. You were better at it than others,...
Pioneering Stem Cell Trial Seeks to Cure Babies Before Birth
Even before she was born, Elianna Constantino had already cheated death.
Elianna has a rare inherited blood disorder called alpha thalassemia major, which prevents her...
The Biggest New Laws to Regulate Tech Giants—and Why They Matter
The world’s first stop sign appeared in Michigan around 1915, decades after the first privately owned passenger car came into being. Ever since, laws...
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
Can Hawaii Go Carbon Neutral by 2045?
If you’ve done any research into climate change, you’re almost certainly familiar with the Keeling Curve. This sawtoothed upward curve tracks the inexorable increase...
This New Chip Design Could Make Neural Nets More Efficient and a Lot Faster
Neural networks running on GPUs have achieved some amazing advances in artificial intelligence, but the two are accidental bedfellows. IBM researchers hope a new...
Microsoft’s Wild New Project Puts Servers at the Bottom of the Ocean
Last week, a few miles off the northern coast of Scotland, a cylinder the size of a shipping container was carefully lowered to the...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 9)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Is Tailor Made for the AI Era
Martin Giles | MIT Technology Review
"The team at Oak Ridge says Summit...
We Discovered That Life May Be Billions of Times More Common in the Multiverse
Why is there life in our universe? The existence of galaxies, stars, planets, and ultimately life seem to depend on a small number of...
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