How Mirroring the Architecture of the Human Brain Is Speeding Up AI Learning
While AI can carry out some impressive feats when trained on millions of data points, the human brain can often learn from a tiny...
China Wants to Be the World’s AI Superpower. Does It Have What It Takes?
China’s star has been steadily rising for decades. Besides slashing extreme poverty rates from 88 percent to under 2 percent in just 30 years,...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 16)
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...
Ordinarily, we point telescopes at some object we want to see in greater detail. In the 1990s astronomers did the opposite. They pointed the...
The Secret to a Long, Healthy Life Is in the Genes...
The first time I heard nematode worms can teach us something about human longevity, I balked at the idea. How the hell can a...
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NASA Will Soon Choose One of These 3 Landers to Go Back to the...
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
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
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...
Moore’s Law Lives: Intel Says Chips Will Pack 50 Times More...
If you weren’t already convinced the digital world is taking over, you probably are now.
To keep the economy on life support as people stay...
New Research Could Enable Direct Data Transfer From Computers to Living Cells
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...
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)
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
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
The $100 million Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by the billionaire, technology and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious...
