Evolution Tells Us We Might Be the Only Intelligent Life in the Universe
Are we alone in the universe? It comes down to whether intelligence is a probable outcome of natural selection, or an improbable fluke. By...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 20)
COMPUTING
This New Startup Has Created a Record-Breaking 256-Qubit Quantum Computer
Siobhan Roberts | MIT Technology Review
"The QuEra machine is the latest leap in scaling up...
How Antarctic Bacteria Live on Air and Use Hydrogen as Fuel to Make Water
Humans have only recently begun to think about using hydrogen as a source of energy, but bacteria in Antarctica have been doing it for...
A Solar Farm the Size of 1,000 Football Stadiums Is Going Up in Indiana
The transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources is underway, with solar and wind farms popping up everywhere from the UK...
How to Embed Trust Into the Foundations of the Internet
Earlier this year, a digital artist conned unsuspecting NFT collectors to highlight a vulnerability in the way cryptographically secured assets are managed online. The...
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Nvidia’s New Supercomputer Will Create a ‘Digital Twin’ of Earth to Fight Climate Change
It’s crunch time on climate change, and companies, governments, philanthropists, and NGOs around the world are starting to take action, be it through donating...
AI Can Now Model the Molecular Machines That Govern All Life
Thanks to deep learning, the central mysteries of structural biology are falling like dominos.
Just last year, DeepMind shocked the biomedical field with AlphaFold, an...
Scientists Say We Need to Look Into Solar Geoengineering Now—Before It’s Too Late
With the pace of emissions reductions looking unlikely to prevent damaging climate change, controversial geoengineering approaches are gaining traction. But aversion to even studying...
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...
The Moon’s Surface Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years
Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilization. And at...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 13)
COMPUTING
Two of World's Biggest Quantum Computers Made in China
Charles Q. Choi | IEEE Spectrum
"...scientists in China have tested two different quantum computers on what...
Beeple’s New NFT Just Sold for $29 Million, and He’ll Update It for the...
Just a few months ago, most of us had never heard of an NFT. Even once we figured out what they were, it seemed...
These Houses Are Affordable, Carbon Neutral, and Assembled Like IKEA Furniture
House prices have soared during the last year and a half, and the implications aren’t great (unless you’re a homeowner looking just to sell...
The First Continents Bobbed to the Surface More Than Three Billion Years Ago, Study Shows
Most people know that the land masses on which we all live represent just 30 percent of Earth’s surface, and the rest is covered...
