This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 23)
COMPUTING
OpenAI's Supercomputer Collaboration With Microsoft Marks Its Biggest Bet Yet on AGI
Kyle Wiggers | VentureBeat
"Today, during Microsoft’s Build 2020 developer conference, the first fruit...
A New Bionic Eye Could Give Robots and the Blind 20/20 Vision
A bionic eye could restore sight to the blind and greatly improve robotic vision, but current visual sensors are a long way from the...
3 Major Materials Science Breakthroughs—and Why They Matter for the Future
Few recognize the vast implications of materials science.
To build today’s smartphone in the 1980s, it would cost about $110 million, require nearly 200 kilowatts...
The US Government Just Invested Big in Small-Scale Nuclear Power
Amid the coronavirus lockdowns around the world, one of few positive pieces of news we’ve heard is that carbon emissions have dropped dramatically. The...
What Would Life on Mars Be Like? Millions of Us Are...
I live in California’s Bay Area, so for the last week and a half I’ve joined around seven million people in a shelter-in-place mandate....
Scientists Are Cloning the Coronavirus Like Crazy. Here’s Why—and the Risks
Most biomedical researchers are busy finding ways to squash the new coronavirus. Meanwhile, synthetic biologists are busy cloning it in droves.
In late February a...
Here Are the Results of the Biggest Universal Basic Income Trial Yet
Widespread job losses due to the coronavirus pandemic are leading to renewed interest in the idea of a universal basic income (UBI). That coincided...
OpenAI Finds Machine Learning Efficiency Is Outpacing Moore’s Law
Eight years ago a machine learning algorithm learned to identify a cat—and it stunned the world. A few years later AI could accurately translate...
Engineering Bugs, Resurrecting Species: The Wild World of Synthetic Biology for...
Imagine a world where a mosquito bite is just an itchy annoyance. No malaria. No dengue fever.
Last month, scientists announced they had taken one...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 16)
AUTOMATION
The Pandemic Is Emptying Call Centers. AI Chatbots Are Swooping In
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"Over the last few years, advances in natural-language processing...
Forget Exercise—These Mice Got Ripped With Gene Therapy
Trying to hack fitness is a multi-million-dollar industry; we’ve all seen at least one ad featuring a purported miracle product that claims it can...
The World Food Program’s Coronavirus Fight—and How You Can Help
The coronavirus outbreak has thrown the world into turmoil. On top of the infections and deaths it’s caused, there have been significant knock-on effects...
Will 3 Billion People Really Live in Temperatures as Hot as the Sahara by...
Humans are amazing creatures, in that they have shown they can live in almost any climate. Think of the Inuit who live in the...
To Find a Coronavirus Vaccine Faster—Should We Deliberately Infect Thousands of People?
“First, do no harm” is a core principle for all physicians. Yet with the new coronavirus wreaking havoc across the globe, the medical community...
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