A Google AI Designed a Computer Chip as Well as a Human Engineer—But Much...
AI has finally come full circle.
A new suite of algorithms by Google Brain can now design computer chips—those specifically tailored for running AI software—that...
Scientists in Spain Just Got a Step Closer to Building a Practical Quantum Repeater
A quantum internet could play a key role in tying together many of the most promising applications for quantum technologies. The main impetus for...
Why It Took 20 Years to ‘Finish’ the Human Genome—and Why There’s Still More...
The release of the draft human genome sequence in 2001 was a seismic moment in our understanding of the human genome, and paved the...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 12)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
These Creepy Fake Humans Represent a New Age in AI
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
" are synthetic data designed to feed the growing...
When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell...
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest...
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Waymo Self-Driving Trucks Will Soon Start Moving Freight Across Texas
Last month, self-driving technology company TuSimple shipped a truckload of watermelons across the state of Texas ten hours faster than normal. They did this...
This Drone Bus Will Carry 40 Passengers Between Cities for the Price of a...
Multiple companies are working on new aerial modes of transportation, be they taxis that fly, drones that drive, or cars that drive and fly....
NASA Is Returning to Venus, Where It’s 470°C. Will We Find Life When We...
NASA has selected two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to study the “lost habitable” world of Venus. Each mission will receive approximately $500 million...
This Wild Video Maps the Entire Internet and Its Evolution Since...
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...
Scientists Used CRISPR to Engineer a New ‘Superbug’ That’s Invincible to All Viruses
Can we reprogram existing life at will?
To synthetic biologists, the answer is yes. The central code for biology is simple. DNA letters, in groups...
How Long Can We Live? New Research Says the Human Lifespan Tops Out at...
Even with a healthy diet, plenty of exercise, a lucky draw in the genetic lottery, and the best medicine known to man, your natural...
Google and Harvard Unveil the Largest High-Resolution Map of the Brain Yet
Last Tuesday, teams from Google and Harvard published an intricate map of every cell and connection in a cubic millimeter of the human brain.
The...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 5)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
China's Gigantic Multi-Modal AI Is No One-Trick Pony
A. Tarantola | Engadget
"When Open AI's GPT-3 model made its debut in May of 2020, its performance...
When Will the First Baby Be Born in Space?
When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity’s first steps out of Africa. Such a birth...
