COMPUTING
How Apple’s Monster M1 Ultra Chip Keeps Moore’s Law Alive
Will Knight | Wired
"Apple’s most powerful chip to date has 114 billion transistors packed into over a...
Genetic engineering has given scientists the power to manipulate fundamental properties of living things, from humans to animals to plants. In plants, genetic tweaks...
The slow but steady transition to renewable energy was already underway when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, and since then the global energy market...
Our brains are unique snowflakes that change shape throughout our lives. Yet buried underneath individual differences is a common throughline, with the brain growing...
Blending the digital and real worlds could have a host of applications, from entertainment to training, but current augmented and virtual reality headsets are...
Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction. The production...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI's DALL-E 2 Produces Fantastical Images of Most Anything You Can Imagine
Andrew Tarantola | Engadget
"DALL-E 2, which utilizes OpenAI's CLIP image recognition system,...
It’s no secret America is in the midst of a housing shortage, with home prices ballooning, supply remaining stagnant, and would-be homebuyers frantic to...
Quantum and neuromorphic approaches both hold the promise of fundamentally rewriting the way we do computing. And now they have been merged after researchers...
Champion bridge player Sharon Osberg once wrote, "Playing bridge is like running a business. It’s about hunting, chasing, nuance, deception, reward, danger, cooperation and,...
BIOTECH
This Startup Wants to Kick-Start a Molecular Electronics Revival
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan | MIT Technology Review
"The new vision, shared by Roswell and other on-chip molecular technology...
ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is devastatingly cruel. As neurons that control movement slowly die off, you lose the ability to walk, speak, and breathe....
CRISPR gene editing holds huge promise for tackling a wide range of inherited diseases, but concerns about unintended “off target” effects have slowed its...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Meta's Yann LeCun Strives for Human-Level AI
Ben Dickson | VentureBeat
"What is the next step toward bridging the gap between natural and artificial intelligence?...
Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, the world was on the cusp of an energy crisis. As countries scramble to set ambitious carbon neutrality targets,...
The proteins that control our lives are like rolling tumbleweeds. Each has a tangled, unique shape, with spiky side-branches dotting its surface. Hidden in...
Geothermal energy has long been the forgotten member of the clean energy family, overshadowed by relatively cheap solar and wind power, despite its proven...
For the past several decades, psychedelics have been widely stigmatized as dangerous illegal drugs. But a recent surge of academic research into their use...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2022
Eliza Strickland | IEEE Spectrum
"The 2022 AI Index, which came out this week, is as...
The UK government is reportedly considering a £16 billion proposal to build a solar power station in space.
Yes, you read that right. Space-based solar...
De-extinction grabbed our imagination in the 90s with Jurassic Park. Scientists have since asked: how possible is it?
According to a new study, nearly impossible....
Electric vehicles (EVs) will play a crucial role in decarbonizing our transport systems and helping us avoid the worst effects of climate change. The...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence?
Stephen Ornes | Quanta
"Just 10 years ago, disparate subfields of AI had little to say to each other....
Just as the UK was recovering from storms Eunice and Franklin, scientists of UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report...
Cryptocurrencies could remake our financial systems, but question marks remain over their green credentials. Now a new analysis suggests their environmental impact has gotten...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Graphcore Unveils Next-Generation AI Chips and Plans for Powerful Supercomputer
Kyle Wiggers | VentureBeat
"Called the Good Supercomputer in honor of Jack Good, the first...
How close can we get to animal products without actually involving animals? Multiple companies are putting this question to the test, whether by producing...
