Simple robots have long been a manufacturing staple, but more advanced robots—think Boston Dynamics' Atlas—have mostly been bespoke creations in the lab. That's begun...
MDMA doesn’t have the best reputation. Known as “ecstasy” or “molly,” the drug is synonymous with rave culture: all-night electronic beats and choreographed laser...
ROBOTICS
This Driverless Car Company Is Using Chatbots to Make Its Vehicles Smarter
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"Self-driving car startup Wayve can now interrogate...
Shifting to battery-powered vehicles is an essential step in tackling climate change, but it's also creating worryingly large amounts of e-waste and demand for...
Forget sperm meets egg.
Using human stem cells, scientists have created human embryo-like structures inside petri dishes. These lab-grown blobs develop multiple structures that mimic...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
What OpenAI Really Wants
Steven Levy | Wired
"For Altman and his company, ChatGPT and GPT-4 are merely stepping stones along the way to achieving...
Renewable power was already rapidly replacing fossil fuels as the cheapest source of electricity. Thanks to rocketing fuel prices last year, it is now...
This summer, the AI division of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta unveiled its Llama 2 chatbot. Microsoft has been appointed as Meta’s preferred partner on Llama...
Switching from combustion-engine cars to electric vehicles is going to be an important part of the renewable energy transition. But for the switch to...
AUTOMATION
High-Speed AI Drone Beats World-Champion Racers for the First Time
Benj Edwards | Ars Technica
"On Wednesday, a team of researchers from the University of Zürich...
