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Cultured Chicken Is a Step Closer as a Second US Company Gets FDA Approved

At the end of last year, Israeli cultured meat company Believer Meats broke ground on a 200,000-square-foot factory outside Raleigh, North Carolina. The facility...

This Chipmaking Step Is Crucial to the Future of Computing—and Just Got 40x Faster Thanks to Nvidia

If computer chips make the modern world go around, then Nvidia and TSMC are flywheels keeping it spinning. It's worth paying attention when the...

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to the Internet Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch " launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party...

AI Could Make More Work for Us, Instead of Simplifying Our Lives

There's a common perception that artificial intelligence (AI) will help streamline our work. There are even fears that it could wipe out the need...

The First 3D-Printed Rocket Launch Is a Step Toward Even Greater Access to Space

Reducing the cost of space launches will be critical if we want humanity to have a more permanent presence beyond orbit. The partially successful...

AI Won’t Kill Our Jobs, It Will Kill Our Job Descriptions—and Leave Us Better Off

The hype around artificial intelligence has been building for years, and you could say it reached a crescendo with OpenAI’s recent release of ChatGPT...

Meta’s New ChatGPT-Like AI Is Fluent in the Language of Proteins—and Has Already Modeled 700 Million of Them

The race to solve every protein structure just welcomed another tech giant: Meta AI. A research offshoot of Meta, known for Facebook and Instagram, the...

Solar Panels Floating on Reservoirs Could Provide a Third of the World’s Electricity

Solar power is going to play a major role in combating climate change, but it requires huge amounts of land. Floating solar panels on...
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OpenAI Says GPT-4 Is Better in Nearly Every Way. What Matters More Is Millions Will Use It

In 2020, artificial intelligence company OpenAI stunned the tech world with its GPT-3 machine learning algorithm. After ingesting a broad slice of the internet,...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 18)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE You Can Now Run a GPT-3-Level AI Model on Your Laptop, Phone, and Raspberry Pi Benj Edwards | Ars Technica "On Friday, a software developer...

A ‘Goldilocks’ Star Reveals a Previously Hidden Step in How Water Gets to Earth

Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe is critical to understanding...

Could Brain-Computer Interfaces Lead to ‘Mind Control for Good’?

Of all the advanced technologies currently under development, one of the most fascinating and frightening is brain-computer interfaces. They’re fascinating because we still have...

This Startup Says Nuclear Power Could Be Our Most Effective Climate Solution

From 1850 to 2019, human activity released 2.4 trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. In 2022 alone, we released 37 billion more tons....

The First Complete Brain Map of an Insect May Reveal Secrets for Better AI

Breakthroughs don’t often happen in neuroscience, but we just had one. In a tour-de-force, an international team released the full brain connectivity map of...

Life on a Reforested Planet: How the World Will Look if We Plant a Trillion Trees

Many stories about the future are formed by imagining worst-case scenarios, then extracting lessons from them about what we should try to avoid. Much...

The Limits of Computing: Why Even in the Age of AI, Some Problems Are Just Too Difficult

Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose...

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