ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Facebook's New AI Teaches Itself to See With Less Human Help
Will Knight | Wired
"Peer inside an AI algorithm and you’ll find something constructed...
Wonder material graphene is often touted as a potential way around the death of Moore's Law, but harnessing its promising properties has proven tricky....
In the early days of digital computing, the machines were monolithic and isolated. They didn’t communicate. In fact, they couldn’t communicate. There was no...
GENETICS
An Extinct Cave Bear's DNA Was Still Readable After 360,000 Years
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo
"The bone analyzed in the new study—a petrous bone from the...
Facial recognition technology has been banned by multiple US cities, including Portland, Boston, and San Francisco. Besides the very real risk of the tech...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose
Will Knight | Wired
"It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess....
Like taxes and death, nutrition is something we can’t escape. Eating should be easy. Yet it’s also massively confusing, prone to misinformation, and utterly...
The companies building quantum computers have made incredible progress in recent years, and the hardware is only half the problem. Now industry leader IBM...
VIRTUAL REALITY
Epic Games' MetaHuman Creator Lets Developers Create Realistic Digital Humans Within Minutes
Dean Takahashi | VentureBeat
"Epic Games has unveiled its MetaHuman Creator, a new browser-based...
Bitcoin’s value reached an all-time high this week after Tesla announced it had bought $1.5 billion worth of the cryptocurrency. After its launch in...
SPACE
SpaceX Announces First 'All-Civilian' Mission to Space
Joey Roulette | The Verge
"Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning to send its first 'all-civilian' crew to space at...
Radio images of the sky have revealed hundreds of “baby” and supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, with the galaxies’ light bouncing around in...
Mind reading comes easily to most of us.
For all our divisions, humans are uncannily efficient at simulating another person’s thoughts and beliefs. It’s how...
3D PRINTING
A Real 3D-Printed Home Listing Just Popped Up on Zillow for a Cool $300,000
Sam Rutherford | Gizmodo
"Unlike many smaller 3D-printed abodes, the Riverhead...
In recent years, satellites have become smaller, cheaper, and easier to make with commercial off-the-shelf parts. Some even weigh as little as one gram....
In the past few years, scientists have hatched some pretty crazy-sounding schemes in the name of protecting Earth and its inhabitants. From building an...
Thanks to biological parts of a mosquito’s “nose,” we’re finally closer to Smell-O-Vision for computers. And a way to diagnose early cancer.
With the recent...
Despite their growing popularity, electric vehicle sales still lag behind gasoline cars, and one reason is the anxiety that comes from short ranges and...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This Chinese Lab Is Aiming for Big AI Breakthroughs
Will Knight | Wired
"China produces as many artificial intelligence researchers as the US, but it...
For all their simplicity, viruses are sneaky little life forces.
Take SARS-Cov-2, the virus behind Covid-19. Challenged with the human immune system, the virus has...
