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What Is a GPU? The Chips Powering the AI Boom, and Why They’re Worth Trillions

As the world rushes to make use of the latest wave of AI technologies, one piece of high-tech hardware has become a surprisingly hot...

Colossal Creates Elephant Stem Cells for the First Time in Quest to Revive the Woolly Mammoth

The last woolly mammoth roamed the vast arctic tundra 4,000 years ago. Their genes still live on in a majestic animal today—the Asian elephant. With...

Russia and China Want to Build a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon

Supporting any future settlement on the moon would require considerable amounts of energy. Russia and China think a nuclear power plant is the best...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 9)

TECH These Companies Have a Plan to Kill Apps Julian Chokkattu | Wired "Everyone wants to kill the app. There’s a wave of companies building so-called app-less...

This AI Can Design the Machinery of Life With Atomic Precision

Proteins are social creatures. They’re also chameleons. Depending on a cell’s needs, they rapidly transform in structure and grab onto other biomolecules in an...

A Google AI Watched 30,000 Hours of Video Games—Now It Makes Its Own

AI continues to generate plenty of light and heat. The best models in text and images—now commanding subscriptions and being woven into consumer products—are...

CRISPRed Pork May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You

Many of us appreciate a juicy pork chop or a slab of brown sugar ham. Pork is the third most consumed meat in the...

Gravity Experiments on the Kitchen Table: Why a Tiny, Tiny Measurement May Be a Big Leap Forward for Physics

Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever tabletop experiment,...
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 2)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google DeepMind’s New Generative Model Makes Super Mario-Like Games From Scratch Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review "OpenAI’s recent reveal of its stunning generative model...

Has the Lunar Gold Rush Begun? Why the First Private Moon Landing Matters

People have long dreamed of a bustling space economy stretching across the solar system. That vision came a step closer last week after a...

Gene Silencing Slashes Cholesterol in Mice—No Gene Edits Required

With just one shot, scientists have slashed cholesterol levels in mice. The treatment lasted for at least half their lives. The shot may sound like...

Amazon’s Billion-Dollar Investment Arm Targets Generative AI in Robotics

Last year, Amazon announced the next step for its growing robotic workforce. A new system, dubbed Sequioa, linked robots from across a warehouse into...

Could Shipwrecked Tardigrades Have Colonized the Moon?

Just over five years ago, on February 22, 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the moon. Named Beresheet and built...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 24)

COMPUTING Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World Lauren Goode | Wired "Talking to Jensen Huang should come with a warning label. The Nvidia CEO is so invested in where AI is headed...

Elon Musk Says First Neuralink Patient Can Move Computer Cursor With Mind

Neural interfaces could present an entirely new way for humans to connect with technology. Elon Musk says the first human user of his startup...

Like a Child, This Brain-Inspired AI Can Explain Its Reasoning

Children are natural scientists. They observe the world, form hypotheses, and test them out. Eventually, they learn to explain their (sometimes endearingly hilarious) reasoning. AI,...

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