The last woolly mammoth roamed the vast arctic tundra 4,000 years ago. Their genes still live on in a majestic animal today—the Asian elephant.
With...
TECH
These Companies Have a Plan to Kill Apps
Julian Chokkattu | Wired
"Everyone wants to kill the app. There’s a wave of companies building so-called app-less...
Proteins are social creatures. They’re also chameleons. Depending on a cell’s needs, they rapidly transform in structure and grab onto other biomolecules in an...
AI continues to generate plenty of light and heat. The best models in text and images—now commanding subscriptions and being woven into consumer products—are...
Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever.
In a clever tabletop experiment,...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google DeepMind’s New Generative Model Makes Super Mario-Like Games From Scratch
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"OpenAI’s recent reveal of its stunning generative model...
Last year, Amazon announced the next step for its growing robotic workforce. A new system, dubbed Sequioa, linked robots from across a warehouse into...
COMPUTING
Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World
Lauren Goode | Wired
"Talking to Jensen Huang should come with a warning label. The Nvidia CEO is so invested in where AI is headed...
Children are natural scientists. They observe the world, form hypotheses, and test them out. Eventually, they learn to explain their (sometimes endearingly hilarious) reasoning.
AI,...