COMPUTING
Now for AI's Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code
Will Knight | Wired
"It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup,...
On Monday of this week, the Ingenuity helicopter—which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February—took off from the Martian surface. More importantly,...
You’ve probably heard the acronym NFT over the last couple months. Non-fungible tokens have been all over the news, seeming to become a sensation—one...
Satellites are doing all kinds of amazing new things lately, from beaming high-speed internet to remote areas to capturing high-resolution images through clouds to...
Few things in science freak people out more than human-animal hybrids. Named chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature that’s an amalgam of different beasts,...
Engineering giant Honeywell burst into the quantum computing race out of left field last year. Now the company has provided the first concrete details...
In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster-than-light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021
Charles Q. Choi | IEEE Spectrum
"If you haven’t had time to read the AI...
This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Oxitec says its technology will combat dengue...
When it comes to Alzheimer’s versus science, science is on the losing side.
Alzheimer’s is cruel in the most insidious way. The disorder creeps up...
Brain-computer interface technology is advancing rapidly, but it currently relies on wires that seriously limit its use in everyday applications. That could soon change,...
INTERNET
SpaceX a Handful of Starlink Launches Away From Blanketing Earth in Broadband
Eric Mack | CNET
"In the next few months, SpaceX could have more than...
Genealogy services have grown in popularity in recent years. Ancestry.com and 23andMe let users analyze their DNA to show their ethnic makeup, connect with...
One of the primary capabilities separating human intelligence from artificial intelligence is our ability to be creative—to use nothing but the world around us,...
The little pigs bouncing around the lab looked exceedingly normal. Yet their adorable exterior hid a remarkable secret: each piglet carried two different sets...
Though we don’t quite have the technology to make three-dimensional holograms a reality yet, companies like PORTL and Microsoft are working on it. But...
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...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Here's How We'll Know an AI Is Conscious
Joel Frohlich | Nautilus
"Just as ethical tragedies arise when we pull the plug on patients who...
The line between animals and machines was already getting blurry after a team of scientists and roboticists unveiled the first living robots last year....
The United States’ offshore wind industry is tiny, with just seven wind turbines operating off Rhode Island and Virginia. The few attempts to build...
The proliferation of drones bearing cameras has brought many a new sight. Like, a bird's-eye-view of sharks casually swimming at the local beach—which is,...
This week, Boston Dynamics (whose dancing robots video I still can’t watch without cracking up) unveiled the newest addition to its robot menagerie. Stretch...
Thanks to neural implants, mind reading is no longer science fiction.
As I’m writing this sentence, a tiny chip with arrays of electrodes could sit...
Bridging the gap between the cryogenically-cooled inner workings of quantum computers and the conventional electronics that control them is an outstanding challenge. Current approaches...
The universe is brimming with light that's invisible to us humans.
The electromagnetic spectrum extends far beyond visible light in both directions. Longer wavelengths include...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Could Enable 'Swarm Warfare' for Tomorrow's Fighter Jets
Will Knight | Wired
"Last March, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) invited teams to...
In a store in the center of an unnamed city, humanoid robots are displayed alongside housewares and magazines. They watch the fast-moving world outside...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Secret Auction That Set Off the Race for AI Supremacy
Cade Metz | Wired
"How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the...
Last summer an Oakland, California-based startup called Mighty Buildings came out of stealth mode after raising $30 million in venture capital funding. One of...
Looks aren’t everything. But they must be something, otherwise dating apps like Tinder and Bumble wouldn’t be having nearly as much success as they...
Deep reinforcement learning is having a superstar moment.
Powering smarter robots. Simulating human neural networks. Trouncing physicians at medical diagnoses and crushing humanity’s best gamers...
The race to build the first practical quantum computers looks like a two-horse contest between machines built from superconducting qubits and those that use...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This Chip for AI Works Using Light, Not Electrons
Will Knight | Wired
"As demand for artificial intelligence grows, so does hunger for the computer power needed...
For decades, the computer chips that run everything from PCs to spaceships have looked remarkably similar. But as Moore’s Law slows, industry leaders are...
