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Welcome to the Cyborg Era: Brain Implants Transformed Lives This Year

This year gave rise to an incredible mix of brain implants that can record, decode, and alter brain activity. It sounds like déjà vu—brain-machine interfaces...

Will AI’s Breakneck Pace Continue? Predictions for the Hottest Thing in Tech

Artificial intelligence had a breakout year in 2023 as large language models leapt from research curiosity to the hottest consumer product around. Given current...

Why Scientists Are Making Transparent Wood

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody...

CRISPR Gene Editing Had a Breakthrough Year—and It’s Only Getting Started

CRISPR ended 2023 with a bang. In November, the gene editing tool scored its first clinical approval for treating sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia in...

These Were the 10 Most Popular Singularity Hub Stories of 2023

With the year almost in the books, we're taking a look at Singularity Hub's most-read articles in 2023. There's no doubt the year belonged to...

This AI Trained on the Life Events of Every Person in Denmark. It Can Now Predict Their Future.

The possibility of mapping out someone's entire life in advance is both exciting and scary. A new artificial intelligence trained on the personal data...

AI Discovers a New Class of Antibiotics After Scouring 12 Million Compounds

Antibiotics have saved countless lives and are a crucial tool in modern medicine. But we're losing ground in our battle against bacteria. In the...

A New Brain-Like Supercomputer Aims to Match the Scale of the Human Brain

A supercomputer scheduled to go online in April 2024 will rival the estimated rate of operations in the human brain, according to researchers in...
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After Weight Loss, Ozempic Is Set to Conquer a Universe of Brain Disorders

One inescapable word dominated biomedicine this year: Ozempic. Physicians were amazed at the drug’s efficacy in treating diabetes, for which it is FDA approved, and...

Solar-Powered ‘Smart’ Clothing Could Rapidly Heat or Cool Your Body

I have terrible body temperature control. I stick my head in the freezer when it’s sizzling hot outside. Blood vessels in my hands spasm...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 16)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google DeepMind Used a Large Language Model to Solve an Unsolvable Math Problem Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review "In a paper published in...

Body Awareness: Scientists Give Robots a Basic Sense of ‘Proprioception’

Many experts believe more general forms of artificial intelligence will be impossible without giving AI a body in the real world. A new approach...

A Ball of Brain Cells on a Chip Can Learn Simple Speech Recognition and Math

A tiny ball of brain cells hums with activity as it sits atop an array of electrodes. For two days, it receives a pattern...

Google’s Gemini AI Hints at the Next Great Leap for the Technology

Google has launched Gemini, a new artificial intelligence system that can seemingly understand and speak intelligently about almost any kind of prompt—pictures, text, speech,...

This Mind-Reading Cap Can Translate Thoughts to Text Thanks to AI

Wearing an electrode-studded cap bristling with wires, a young man silently reads a sentence in his head. Moments later, a Siri-like voice breaks in,...

Ultrasonic 3D Printer Could One Day Repair Organs in the Body Without Surgery

A plump piece of farm-fresh chicken leg rested on a pristine surface at Harvard Medical School. Skin on and bone in, it was precisely...

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