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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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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom Will Knight | Wired " was predictably effusive about Gemini, claiming it introduces new...

Building Telescopes on the Moon Could Transform Astronomy—and It’s Becoming an Achievable Goal

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the moon by...

Mice Just Passed the Mirror Test. Here’s What That Says About Our Sense of Self

Here’s a fun test: Dab some blush onto the forehead of a six-month-old baby and plop them in front of a mirror. They might...

IBM Is Planning to Build Its First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2029

This week, IBM announced a pair of shiny new quantum computers. The company's Condor processor is the first quantum chip of its kind with over...

Brain Implant Sparks Remarkable Recovery in Patients With Severe Brain Injury

At 21 years old, a young woman’s life was turned upside down after suffering a blow to the head and severe brain injury during...
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Are We Ready to Head to Mars? Not So Fast.

In August 1998, 700 people came to Boulder, Colorado to attend the founding convention of the Mars Society. The group’s cofounder and president, Robert...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 2)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off Matthew Smith | IEEE Spectrum "The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no...

This DeepMind AI Rapidly Learns New Skills Just by Watching Humans

Teaching algorithms to mimic humans typically requires hundreds or thousands of examples. But a new AI from Google DeepMind can pick up new skills...

A Google DeepMind AI Just Discovered 380,000 New Materials. This Robot Is Cooking Them Up.

A robot chemist just teamed up with an AI brain to create a trove of new materials. Two collaborative studies from Google DeepMind and the...

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year Reflects Growing Concerns Over AI’s Ability to Deceive

When Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year for 2023 was “authentic,” it did so with over a month to go in the...

An AI Tool Just Revealed Almost 200 New Systems for CRISPR Gene Editing

CRISPR has a problem: an embarrassment of riches. Ever since the gene editing system rocketed to fame, scientists have been looking for variants with better...

DeepMind Defines Artificial General Intelligence and Ranks Today’s Leading Chatbots

Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, has become a much-abused buzzword in the AI industry. Now, Google DeepMind wants to put the idea on a...

Did This Chemical Reaction Create the Building Blocks of Life on Earth?

How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know...

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