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Microsoft Had a Crazy Idea to Put Servers Under Water—and It Totally Worked
A little over two years ago, a shipping container-sized cylinder bearing Microsoft’s name and logo was lowered onto the ocean floor off the northern...
This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab
As the ills of factory farming become more pronounced, people are increasingly gravitating towards vegetarian or pescatarian diets. Besides producing a large percentage of...
A CRISPR Baby Future? New Report Outlines Path to Human Germline Editing
What will it take for CRISPR babies to become medically acceptable? Earlier this month, an international commission of scientists released a highly anticipated report...
This Microchip Has Its Own Built-In Cooling System
As we pack electronics into ever smaller packages, dealing with the heat they produce is becoming a growing challenge. Now researchers have developed a...
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...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 12)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft's Updated DeepSpeed Can Train Trillion-Parameter AI Models With Fewer GPUs
Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch
"The enhanced DeepSpeed leverages three techniques to enable 'trillion-scale' model...
Walmart Is Piloting Drone Delivery in North Carolina
The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to quickly adapt to circumstances that were unimaginable a year ago. Companies are finding new ways to do...
Uber Wants to Go All-Electric by 2030. It Won’t Be Easy
The coronavirus pandemic has been an all-around nightmare, but there are a few silver linings. One of these is a renewed focus on the...
Oxford Scientists: These Are Final Steps We’re Taking to Get Our Coronavirus Vaccine Approved
Of the hundreds of potential Covid-19 vaccines in development, six are in the final stages of testing, known as phase three clinical trials. One...
An Army of Microscopic Robots Is Ready to Patrol Your Body
If I were to picture futuristic bots that could revolutionize both microrobotics and medicine, a Pop-Tart with four squiggly legs would not be on...
A New Breakthrough Just Brought City-Wide Quantum Communication Into Reach
A quantum internet promises a truly unhackable way to communicate, but most proposals so far only link two users at a time and require...
Solarpunk Is Growing a Gorgeous New World in the Cracks of the Old One
What will the future look, smell, sound, taste, and feel like? And why on Earth—and other planets—are those questions relevant, especially given the havoc...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 5)
TRANSPORTATION
Did You Fly a Jetpack Over Los Angeles This Weekend? Because the FBI Is Looking for You
Tom McKay | Gizmodo
"Did you fly a jetpack...
Microsoft’s New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality to the Test
The upcoming US presidential election seems set to be something of a mess—to put it lightly. Covid-19 will likely deter millions from voting in...
How a New Solar and Lighting Technology Could Propel a Renewable Energy Transformation
The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in history. This is particularly...
Stream or Skip? A Synthetic Biologist’s Review of ‘Biohackers’ on Netflix
Glow-in-the-dark mice, gene-modded weed, and payment microchips in your hand? That's the surprisingly realistic science backdrop of Biohackers, but that's where it stays.
Biohackers, the...
Neuralink’s Wildly Anticipated New Brain Implant: the Hype vs. the Science
Neuralink’s wildly anticipated demo last Friday left me with more questions than answers. With a presentation teeming with promises and vision but scant on...
Could Quantum Computing Progress Be Halted by Background Radiation?
Doing calculations with a quantum computer is a race against time, thanks to the fragility of the quantum states at their heart. And new...
New Zealand Is About to Test Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission
A famous image of inventor Nikola Tesla shows him casually sitting on a chair, legs crossed, taking notes—oblivious to the profusion of artificial lightning...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 29)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How Special Relativity Can Help AI Predict the Future
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"The AI can make guesses about the future without...
Algorithms Workers Can’t See Are Increasingly Pulling the Management Strings
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL’s cold, if polite, refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space...
Waymo Just Started Testing Its Driverless Trucks in Texas
It’s been almost four years since Uber shipped 50,000 cans of beer across Colorado in a self-driving truck. It was the first-ever commercial shipment...
Facebook Wants to Make Smart Robots to Explore Every Nook and Cranny of Your...
“Hey Alexa, turn on the kitchen light.”
“Hey Alexa, play soothing music at volume three.”
“Hey Alexa, tell me where to find my keys.”
You can ask...
This Is How Your Brain Responds to Social Influence
I’m a doormat when it comes to peer pressure. Jump off a 32-foot (10 meter) diving board without any experience? Sure! Propel off a...
Scientists Used Protein Switches to Turn T Cells Into Cancer-Fighting Guided Missiles
One of the main challenges in curing cancer is that unlike foreign invaders, tumor cells are part of the body and so able to...
