This Huge Hologram-Like 3D Display Is Made of Thousands of Tiny LED Lights
Though we don’t quite have the technology to make three-dimensional holograms a reality yet, companies like PORTL and Microsoft are working on it. But...
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Algorithm Is Now Producing Billions of Words a Day
When OpenAI released its huge natural-language algorithm GPT-3 last summer, jaws dropped. Coders and developers with special access to an early API rapidly discovered...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 3)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Here's How We'll Know an AI Is Conscious
Joel Frohlich | Nautilus
"Just as ethical tragedies arise when we pull the plug on patients who...
Xenobots 2.0: These Living Robots Self-Assemble From Frog Skin Cells
The line between animals and machines was already getting blurry after a team of scientists and roboticists unveiled the first living robots last year....
Resilience Is the New Black: The Lessons of Covid-19
For years it can seem as if the world is predictable, and then all at once, everything changes.
Most of us have been blown away...
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The US Just Set Ambitious Offshore Wind Power Targets. What Will It Take to...
The United States’ offshore wind industry is tiny, with just seven wind turbines operating off Rhode Island and Virginia. The few attempts to build...
Watch Hypnotic Drone Footage of Boiling Lava Taken Inside Iceland Volcano’s Crater
The proliferation of drones bearing cameras has brought many a new sight. Like, a bird's-eye-view of sharks casually swimming at the local beach—which is,...
Boston Dynamics’ New Warehouse Robot, Stretch, Moves 800 Boxes an Hour
This week, Boston Dynamics (whose dancing robots video I still can’t watch without cracking up) unveiled the newest addition to its robot menagerie. Stretch...
Will the Coronavirus Evolve to Be Less Deadly?
No lethal pandemic lasts forever. The 1918 flu, for example, crisscrossed the globe and claimed tens of millions of lives, yet by 1920, the...
How Scientists Used Ultrasound to Read Monkeys’ Minds
Thanks to neural implants, mind reading is no longer science fiction.
As I’m writing this sentence, a tiny chip with arrays of electrodes could sit...
Fiber Optics Could Be the Key to Million-Qubit Quantum Computers
Bridging the gap between the cryogenically-cooled inner workings of quantum computers and the conventional electronics that control them is an outstanding challenge. Current approaches...
Watch a Robot 3D Printing the Rocket for Relativity Space’s First Orbital Launch
Relativity Space has the audacious goal of 3D printing 95 percent of a rocket and sending it to orbit. Getting to space is hard....
Hear Black Holes and Galaxies Sing in These Captivating NASA ‘Sonifications’
The universe is brimming with light that's invisible to us humans.
The electromagnetic spectrum extends far beyond visible light in both directions. Longer wavelengths include...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 27)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Could Enable 'Swarm Warfare' for Tomorrow's Fighter Jets
Will Knight | Wired
"Last March, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) invited teams to...
