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Automated Cyborg Cockroach Factory Could Churn Out a Bug a Minute for Search and Rescue

Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and...

Astronomers Have Pinpointed the Origin of Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space

Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022. In new research, my colleagues and I...

This Tiny House Is Made From the Recycled Heart of a Wind Turbine

If you’ve tried to rent or buy a home in the last few years, you may have noticed there’s a severe housing shortage in...

Most Supposedly ‘Open’ AI Systems Are Actually Closed—and That’s a Problem

“Open” AI models have a lot to give. The practice of sharing source code with the public spurs innovation and democratizes AI as a...

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Makes AI Clones of Real People With Surprising Ease

AI has become uncannily good at aping human conversational capabilities. New research suggests its powers of mimicry go a lot further, making it possible...

Niantic Is Training a Giant ‘Geospatial’ AI on Pokémon Go Data

If you want to see what's next in AI, just follow the data. ChatGPT and DALL-E trained on troves of internet data. Generative AI...

Why Are Our Brains So Big? Because They Excel at Damage Control

Compared to other primates, our brains are exceptionally large. Why? A new study comparing neurons from different primates pinpointed several genetic changes unique to humans...

A 4.45-Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning

Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface, and...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Can Now Create a Replica of Your Personality James O'Donnell | MIT Technology Review "Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken...

Forget Needles. These Squid-Like Pills Will Spray Drugs Into the Gut Instead.

As a medical doctor, my mother isn’t afraid of needles. But when she recently began injecting insulin daily for her newly diagnosed diabetes, the...

‘Droidspeak’: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Language Thanks to Microsoft

Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology. Now, Microsoft researchers have invented a new language to help...

Poetry by History’s Greatest Poets or AI? People Can’t Tell the Difference—and Even Prefer the Latter. What Gives?

Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote: The air is thick with tension, My mind is a tangled mess, The weight of my emotions Is heavy on...

A ChatGPT-Like AI Can Now Design Whole New Genomes From Scratch

All life on Earth is written with four DNA "letters." An AI just used those letters to dream up a completely new genome from...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 16)

COMPUTING IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done on Quantum Hardware John Timmer | Ars Technica "There's a general consensus that we won't be...

MIT’s New Robot Dog Learned to Walk and Climb in a Simulation Whipped Up by Generative AI

A big challenge when training AI models to control robots is gathering enough realistic data. Now, researchers at MIT have shown they can train...

Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You

When I was a young kid, our neighborhood didn’t have any grocery stores. The only place to buy fruits and vegetables was at our...

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