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Waymo Robotaxis Are Giving 100,000 Rides a Week. It’ll Soon Be More.

After years of overly aggressive forecasts about self-driving cars, here's a statistic that snuck up on us: People are now hailing 100,000 automated rides...

Robots Are Coming to the Kitchen—What That Could Mean for Society and Culture

Automating food is unlike automating anything else. Food is fundamental to life—nourishing body and soul—so how it’s accessed, prepared, and consumed can change societies...

The US Is Adding Grid-Scale Batteries at 10 Times the Pace of Natural Gas This Year

As our energy mix shifts towards intermittent renewable sources, utility-scale batteries will be crucial for balancing power supply. The latest figures from the US...

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Generative AI Creates Playable Version of Doom Game With No Code Matthew Sparkes | New Scientist "An AI-generated re-creation of the classic computer game Doom can...

Some Brains Develop Alzheimer’s—Others Don’t. A New Cell Map Could Explain Why.

Alzheimer’s disease slowly takes over the mind. Long before symptoms occur, brain cells are gradually losing their function. Eventually they wither away, eroding brain...

AI Models Scaled Up 10,000x Are Possible by 2030, Report Says

Recent progress in AI largely boils down to one thing: Scale. Around the beginning of this decade, AI labs noticed that making their algorithms—or models—ever...

What Is ‘Model Collapse’? An Expert Explains the Rumors About an Impending AI Doom

Artificial intelligence prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “model collapse.” But how realistic...

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn Mission Will Show Us How Spaceflight Transforms the Body

On Aug 27, all eyes will be on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a historic flight. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set to...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments Will Knight | Wired "At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a...

World’s Biggest Battery Will Provide 85 Megawatts to New England Grid

The rapid transition to renewable energy is great news for the environment, but electrical grids are struggling to incorporate intermittent power sources like wind...

This AI Learns Continuously From New Experiences—Without Forgetting Its Past

Our brains are constantly learning. That new sandwich deli rocks. That gas station? Better avoid it in the future. Memories like these physically rewire connections...

Black Hole Sun: Watch a Star Get Torn to Shreds by a Supermassive Black Hole

Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a...

Newly Discovered Brain Wave Helps Lock in Memories While We Sleep

Sleep works magic on memory. You might’ve felt these frustrations before: Trying to learn a guitar riff, shoot a free-throw, or nail a difficult phrase...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 17)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ALS Stole His Voice. AI Retrieved It. Benjamin Mueller | The New York Times "Halfway through trying to speak his first prompt aloud—'What good is...

‘Startling Advance’ in Designer Proteins Opens a World of Possibility for Biotech

Proteins are a bit like lights in your house. They have a job to do, and getting them to do it involves switching them...

Quantum Computers Will Kill Digital Security. These Algorithms Could Stop Them.

Peter Shor published one of the earliest algorithms for quantum computers in 1994. Running Shor's algorithm on a hypothetical quantum computer, one could rapidly...

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