A new generation of artificial intelligence models can produce “creative” images on-demand based on a text prompt. The likes of Imagen, MidJourney, and DALL-E...
The rush to decarbonize our energy supply has led to some ambitious goal-setting, like President Biden’s plan to create a zero-emissions power sector by...
Are quantum computers overhyped?
A new study in Nature says no. A cleverly-designed quantum device developed by Xanadu, a company based in Toronto, Canada, obliterated...
In 2014, genomic sequencing giant, Illumina, announced that their new machine could sequence whole human genomes for $1,000 per genome. It was a significant...
COMPUTING
Manipulating Photons for Microseconds Tops 9,000 Years on a Supercomputer
John Timmer | Ars Technica
"Thanks to some tweaks to the design it described a year...
Humans are unrivaled in the area of cognition. After all, no other species has sent probes to other planets, produced lifesaving vaccines, or created...
3D printing is becoming commonplace as a tool for manufacturing, construction, and even food preparation, but the technology’s advancement in the medical field has...
Just under a year ago, one of the biggest production facilities for cultured meat opened in Israel. Future Meat Technologies’ Rehovot plant produces 500...
Today, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer was crowned fastest on the planet in the semiannual Top500 list. Frontier more than doubled the speed...
ROBOTICS
Dyson Reveals Its Big Bet...Robots
Jasper Jolly | The Guardian
"Dyson has signaled it is placing a 'big bet' on producing robots capable of household chores...
Quantum communication technology could one day enable an ultra-secure quantum internet, but so far creating the linkages in such a large network has proven...
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has long been trying to build underground tunnels for hyperloop transit, and reportedly finished digging said tunnels under the Las...
Nearly three billion years ago, oceanic mats of cyanobacteria, called blue-green algae, transformed Earth's atmosphere by converting carbon dioxide into the oxygen we complex...
TRANSPORTATION
Drones Are Turning Into Personal Flying Machines
Clive Thompson | Wired
"For eons, sci-fi illustrations depicted people zipping around cities in little flying vehicles. Now those...
Some 252 million years ago, the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming.
To understand what caused it, scientists have looked...
Masks. Vaccines. Immigration. Abortion. Gun control. Taxes. The list of divisive issues in American politics goes on, with liberals and conservatives seeming more polarized...
COMPUTING
IBM’s Target: a 4,000-Qubit Processor by 2025
Edd Gent | IEEE Spectrum
"The first iteration of road map topped out with the Condor processor...
There are still plenty of technical hurdles to cross to achieve a vibrant space economy, but one less-discussed barrier to progress could be space-ready...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Meta Has Built a Massive New Language AI—and It’s Giving It Away for Free
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"Meta’s AI lab has...
Earth has a plastics problem, and not many great options to solve it. Plastic is everywhere: food, toiletries, and cleaning products come encased in...
Today's computers guzzle large amounts of electricity, raising concerns about the climate impact of technology. A breakthrough in superconducting electronics could reduce the power...
COMPUTING
This Two-Inch Diamond Disc Could Hold a Staggering Billion Blu-Ray's Worth of Data
Andrew Liszewski | Gizmodo
"Using quantum memory techniques, it’s estimated that a two-inch...
Driverless buses may beat driverless cars in becoming a commonplace mode of transportation. It would make sense; buses run on fixed routes, always stop...
Construction is a major carbon dioxide emitter, with eight percent of global emissions traceable to the cement industry and another eight percent coming from...
Cancers are like malicious snowflakes. Each harbors a unique set of mutations in its genes, gradually turning them to the dark side. Eventually, with...
Neutral atom quantum computers promise solutions to many of the problems that beset today’s devices, but the technology is still nascent. Recent breakthroughs in...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
NVIDIA's Next GPUs Will Be Designed Partially by AI
Monica J. White | Digital Trends
"As the company chooses to prioritize AI and machine learning...
