This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 25)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Yann LeCun Has a Bold New Vision for the Future of AI
Melissa Heikkiläarchive page and Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"In a...
Cosmic Dust From Venus Is Inspiring New Air Pollution-Busting Technology
Reducing carbon emissions from roads, railways, and shipping requires implementing a range of solutions simultaneously. As far as cars are concerned, cutting the number...
An Autonomous Ship Used AI to Cross the Atlantic Without a Human Crew
Just under 402 years ago, in August of 1620, the Mayflower set sail from Southampton, England, bound for America. The 100-foot-long-long, triple-masted wooden vessel...
Japan’s Kairyu Sea Turbine Will Harvest the Never-Ending Power of Deep Ocean Currents
A little over a year ago, a Scottish company called Orbital Marine Power was getting a two-megawatt tidal turbine up and running in the...
What Is the Metaverse? A Beginner’s Guide to Tech’s Latest Obsession
A couple months ago, friends and business contacts started asking me for a crash course on my professional research studying virtual environments. Their interest...
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These 3D Printed Millirobots Can Sense and React to Their Surroundings
The millirobot looked like an adorable cartoon vehicle as it expertly navigated a complex maze. It’s a strange creature: the bottom resembles a collapsed...
Scientists Used CRISPR to Trace Every Human Gene to Its Function
Genes are like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Thanks to advances in whole-genome sequencing, it’s increasingly easy to read each DNA letter. But the strings of A,...
AI Shakespeare and AI Oscar Wilde Debate Machine Creativity at Oxford
"Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be,
That machines should e'er surpass our art.
We are the masters, them the slaves,
And thus it ever shall be...
A New Gene Editing Tool Could Rival CRISPR, and Makes Millions...
With CRISPR’s meteoric rise as a gene editing marvel, it’s easy to forget its lowly origins: it was first discovered as a quirk of...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 18)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This AI Model Tries to Re-create the Mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Pranshu Verma | The Washington Post
"The model, called Ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
Amazon Will Pilot Drone Delivery in California This Year
The number of packages people order—and the number of people ordering packages—isn’t likely to go down anytime in the foreseeable future, and companies are...
Alquist Says It Will 3D Print 200 Houses in a Small Virginia Town
In late 2021, a 3D printed house went up in Williamsburg, Virginia. The printed portion of the three-bed two-bath home—that is, the exterior walls—took...
If Artificial Intelligence Were to Become Sentient, How Would We Know?
Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software...
In Its Greatest Biology Feat Yet, AI Unlocks the Complex Proteins Guarding Our DNA
AI has done it again.
After solving one of the grandest mysteries in biology—predicting protein structure—it decoded how proteins link up into complexes, and dreamed...
