Artificial intelligence and mobile computing have been two of the most disruptive technologies of this century. The unification of the two companies that made...
With increasing frequency, I notice sudden silences, like sonic black holes opening around me. There’ll be the white noise of a person puttering about...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How to Give A.I. a Pinch of Consciousness
Chris Baraniuk | OneZero
"That higher, attentive level of processing is not always necessary — or even...
A little over two years ago, a shipping container-sized cylinder bearing Microsoft’s name and logo was lowered onto the ocean floor off the northern...
As the ills of factory farming become more pronounced, people are increasingly gravitating towards vegetarian or pescatarian diets. Besides producing a large percentage of...
What will it take for CRISPR babies to become medically acceptable? Earlier this month, an international commission of scientists released a highly anticipated report...
As we pack electronics into ever smaller packages, dealing with the heat they produce is becoming a growing challenge. Now researchers have developed a...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft's Updated DeepSpeed Can Train Trillion-Parameter AI Models With Fewer GPUs
Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch
"The enhanced DeepSpeed leverages three techniques to enable 'trillion-scale' model...
What will the future look, smell, sound, taste, and feel like? And why on Earth—and other planets—are those questions relevant, especially given the havoc...
The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in history. This is particularly...
Glow-in-the-dark mice, gene-modded weed, and payment microchips in your hand? That's the surprisingly realistic science backdrop of Biohackers, but that's where it stays.
Biohackers, the...
Neuralink’s wildly anticipated demo last Friday left me with more questions than answers. With a presentation teeming with promises and vision but scant on...
A famous image of inventor Nikola Tesla shows him casually sitting on a chair, legs crossed, taking notes—oblivious to the profusion of artificial lightning...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How Special Relativity Can Help AI Predict the Future
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"The AI can make guesses about the future without...
It’s been almost four years since Uber shipped 50,000 cans of beer across Colorado in a self-driving truck. It was the first-ever commercial shipment...
COMPUTING
IBM Doubles Its Quantum Computer Performance
Stephen Shankland | CNET
"There's now a race afoot to make the fastest quantum computer. What makes the quantum computing...
Though 5G—a next-generation speed upgrade to wireless networks—is scarcely up and running (and still nonexistent in many places) researchers are already working on what...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A College Kid's Fake AI-Generated Blog Fooled Tens of Thousands. This Is How He Created It.
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"At the start...
As the Covid-19 pandemic drags on, there’s one thing we’re all counting on to rescue us from the drudgery of socially-distanced life: a vaccine.
How...
ROBOTICS
For Robots, It's a Time to Shine (and Maybe Disinfect)
Lisa Prevost | The New York Times
"...cleaning robots are having a moment in commercial real...
As concern over climate change and rising temperatures grows, the airline industry is taking heat (pun intended). Flying accounts for 2.5 percent of global...
