This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 10)
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SpaceX a Handful of Starlink Launches Away From Blanketing Earth in Broadband
Eric Mack | CNET
"In the next few months, SpaceX could have more than...
Scientists Found Hints of New Particles or Forces of Nature, and It Could Change...
Seven years ago, a huge magnet was transported over 3,200 miles (5,150km) across land and sea, in the hope of studying a subatomic particle...
‘Deep Nostalgia’ Uses AI to Make Old Photos of Your Relatives Wink, Nod, Dance,...
Genealogy services have grown in popularity in recent years. Ancestry.com and 23andMe let users analyze their DNA to show their ethnic makeup, connect with...
There’s a New Nirvana Song Out, and It Was Written by Google’s AI
One of the primary capabilities separating human intelligence from artificial intelligence is our ability to be creative—to use nothing but the world around us,...
Resilience Is the New Black: The Lessons of Covid-19
For years it can seem as if the world is predictable, and then all at once, everything changes.
Most of us have been blown away...
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How Scientists Grew Human Muscles in Pig Embryos, and Why It Matters for Organ...
The little pigs bouncing around the lab looked exceedingly normal. Yet their adorable exterior hid a remarkable secret: each piglet carried two different sets...
This Huge Hologram-Like 3D Display Is Made of Thousands of Tiny LED Lights
Though we don’t quite have the technology to make three-dimensional holograms a reality yet, companies like PORTL and Microsoft are working on it. But...
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Algorithm Is Now Producing Billions of Words a Day
When OpenAI released its huge natural-language algorithm GPT-3 last summer, jaws dropped. Coders and developers with special access to an early API rapidly discovered...
The Trillion-Transistor Chip That Just Left a Supercomputer in the Dust
The history of computer chips is a thrilling tale of extreme miniaturization.
The smaller, the better is a trend that’s given birth to the digital...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 3)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Here's How We'll Know an AI Is Conscious
Joel Frohlich | Nautilus
"Just as ethical tragedies arise when we pull the plug on patients who...
Xenobots 2.0: These Living Robots Self-Assemble From Frog Skin Cells
The line between animals and machines was already getting blurry after a team of scientists and roboticists unveiled the first living robots last year....
The US Just Set Ambitious Offshore Wind Power Targets. What Will It Take to...
The United States’ offshore wind industry is tiny, with just seven wind turbines operating off Rhode Island and Virginia. The few attempts to build...
Watch Hypnotic Drone Footage of Boiling Lava Taken Inside Iceland Volcano’s Crater
The proliferation of drones bearing cameras has brought many a new sight. Like, a bird's-eye-view of sharks casually swimming at the local beach—which is,...
Boston Dynamics’ New Warehouse Robot, Stretch, Moves 800 Boxes an Hour
This week, Boston Dynamics (whose dancing robots video I still can’t watch without cracking up) unveiled the newest addition to its robot menagerie. Stretch...
