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Silicon Valley Is Reviving the Dream of General-Purpose Humanoid Robots

Robots are nothing new. They build our cars, vacuum our floors, prepare our e-commerce orders, and even help carry out surgeries. But now the...

Earth Will Likely Dodge ‘Planet Killer’ Asteroids for the Next 1,000 Years

To those who study existential risk, the list of threats is lengthening. If nuclear war doesn't end us, a designer virus or AI might....

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ChatGPT Is Already Obsolete Matteo Wong | The Atlantic "Language-only models such as the original ChatGPT are now giving way to machines that can also...

Quantum Biology Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of How Life Works

Imagine using your cell phone to control the activity of your own cells to treat injuries and disease. It sounds like something from the...

More Than Half of Americans Think AI Poses a Threat to Humanity

AI is the talk of the town these days. But despite the technology’s impressive accomplishments—or perhaps because of them—not all of that talk is...

A Google AI Chatbot May Soon Take Your Drive-Through Food Order at Wendy’s

The recent proliferation of generative AI models—which are now being used to produce online search results, make art, help with customer service calls, and...

The First Pangenome Map Captures the Full Scope of Human Genetic Diversity

Think of the first draft of the human genome as a book. Published just past the turn of the century, the human genome paved...

What an Alien Civilization Could Learn About Earth From Our Mobile Phone Signals

Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that fascinates scientists and the public alike. In science, the focus tends to be on...
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Microsoft Signs Contract to Buy Power From Nuclear Fusion Reactor by 2028

Fusion energy startups have attracted a lot of attention and investment in recent years, despite experts predicting the technology is still decades away. Now,...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 13)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The AI Takeover of Google Search Starts Now David Pierce | The Verge "Google Bard is not the future of Google Search. But AI is....

What Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory of the Cosmos Reveals About the Origins of Time and Life

The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang” in 1998....

AI Designed This Statue in the Style of Michelangelo and Other Famous Sculptors

There’s been a lot of speculation about the role AI will play in art and creativity. Some think it will give humans a creative...

This Dubai Mosque Will Be One of the World’s Biggest and Most Complex 3D-Printed Buildings

In 2018, just as 3D printing was starting to take off as a construction method, Dubai set an ambitious goal: the city wanted to...

A Mysterious Surge of Brain Activity During Death Probes the Edges of Consciousness

We often think of death as an on-off switch. One minute you’re there, and the next it’s lights out. Not so. During heart failure—one of...

Scientists Nearly Doubled Yeast Cells’ Longevity With a Clever Genetic Hack

While human aging is the result of many interconnected processes, one of the most fundamental is the natural deterioration of individual cells. Now researchers...

NASA Visualization Shows Supermassive Black Holes That Could Swallow Our Solar System Whole

Hints of black holes, some of the universe's most extreme objects, first appeared in Einstein's equations of relativity as early as 1916. It wasn't...

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