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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 16)

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CRYPTOCURRENCY Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes Nathaniel Popper | The New York Times "Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has...

How Many Galaxies Are in the Universe? A New Answer From the Darkest Sky Ever Observed

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Ordinarily, we point telescopes at some object we want to see in greater detail. In the 1990s astronomers did the opposite. They pointed the...

NASA Will Soon Choose One of These 3 Landers to Go Back to the Moon

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America’s going back to the moon. It’s been over 50 years since the Apollo missions, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first...

How Explainable Artificial Intelligence Can Help Humans Innovate

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The field of artificial intelligence has created computers that can drive cars, synthesize chemical compounds, fold proteins, and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman...

Meet Assembloids, Mini Human Brains With Muscles Attached

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It’s not often that a twitching, snowman-shaped blob of 3D human tissue makes someone’s day. But when Dr. Sergiu Pasca at Stanford University witnessed the...

New Research Could Enable Direct Data Transfer From Computers to Living Cells

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As the modern world produces ever more data, researchers are scrambling to find new ways to store it all. DNA holds promise as an...

The World’s Oldest Story? Astronomers Say Global Myths About ‘Seven Sisters’ Stars May Reach Back 100,000 Years

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In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or the “seven sisters.” Look carefully and you...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 9)

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE This Avocado Armchair Could Be the Future of AI Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review "OpenAI has extended GPT-3 with two new models that...

These Futuristic Flying Ambulances May Soon Be Zooming Around New York

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Ambulance use surged in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, even as emergency medical service providers struggled due to the revenue hit they took...

SETI: New Signal Excites Alien Hunters—Here’s How We Could Find Out if It’s Real

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The $100 million Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by the billionaire, technology and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious...

Start the New Year Right: By Watching These Robots’ Awesome Dance Moves

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2020 was a tough year. There was almost nothing good about it, and we saw it off with a “good riddance” and hopes for...

2021 Could Be a Banner Year for AI—If We Solve These 4 Problems

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If AI has anything to say to 2020, it’s “you can’t touch this.” Last year may have severed our connections with the physical world, but...

‘The Secret History of the Moon’: The Epic Story of How the Moon Was Made

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Where did the moon come from? The leading theory suggests the moon was formed after a massive collision between a Mars-sized planet Theia and Earth...

Scientists Just Created a Catalyst That Turns CO2 Into Jet Fuel

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Air travel is one of the worst contributors to global warming, burping out nearly a billion tons of CO2 a year. But what if...

These Were Our Favorite Tech Stories From Around the Web in 2021

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Every Saturday we post a curated collection of our favorite articles and news from the week. But now that the year's over, we’ll curate...

These Were Our Favorite Tech Stories From Around the Web in 2020

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This time last year we were commemorating the end of a decade and looking ahead to the next one. Enter the year that felt...
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