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Artificial Intelligence

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The Tech World Is ‘Disrupting’ Book Publishing. But Do We Want Effortless Art?

Julian Novitz - December 17, 2024

Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence. New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by...

Blurry, Morphing, and Surreal: A New AI Aesthetic Is Emerging in Film

December 10, 2024

Google DeepMind’s New AI Weatherman Tops World’s Most Reliable System

December 6, 2024

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

November 30, 2024

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

November 29, 2024

Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]

Andrew J. O'Keefe II - November 6, 2016

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

Edd Gent - November 29, 2024

What Is AI Superintelligence? Could It Destroy Humanity? And Is It Really Almost Here?

Flora Salim - November 1, 2024

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

Jason Dorrier - November 27, 2024

Biotechnology

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Exosomes Are Being Hyped as a ‘Silver Bullet’ Therapy. Scientists Say No.

Shelly Fan - December 26, 2024

When human stem cells were discovered at the turn of the century, it sparked a frenzy. Scientists immediately dreamed of repairing damaged tissues due...

AI That Can Design Life’s Machinery From Scratch Had a Big Year. Here’s What Happens Next.

December 23, 2024

Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons

December 19, 2024

How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key

December 18, 2024

Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition

December 16, 2024

Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition

Shelly Fan - December 16, 2024

Is Technology Unnatural—Or Is It ‘What Makes Us Human’?

Jason Dorrier - September 4, 2015

Exponential Medicine: The Most Detailed Snapshot of Human Health in History

Jason Dorrier - November 18, 2015

Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future

Sveta McShane - April 19, 2016

Computing

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Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons

Edd Gent - December 19, 2024

Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to...

Google’s Latest Quantum Computing Breakthrough Shows Practical Machines Are Within Reach

December 12, 2024

‘Electric Plastic’ Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants

October 25, 2024

Meta Has Launched the World’s ‘Most Advanced’ Glasses. Will They Replace Smartphones?

October 1, 2024

DNA Computing Evolves: New System Stores Data, Plays Chess, and Solves Sudoku Puzzles

September 20, 2024

Will the End of Moore’s Law Halt Computing’s Exponential Rise?

Jason Dorrier - March 8, 2016

This AI Supercomputer Has 13.5 Million Cores—and Was Built in Just Three Days

Jason Dorrier - November 22, 2022

DeepMind AI One-Ups Mathematicians at a Calculation Crucial to Computing

Shelly Fan - October 11, 2022

Google Scrambles to Catch Up in the Wake of OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Jason Dorrier - January 22, 2023

Space

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ET May Look Nothing Like Life on Earth. Scientists Want a Universal Theory of Life to Describe It.

Chris Impey - December 24, 2024

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do...

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

December 3, 2024

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

November 25, 2024

Europe Aims to Visit This Large Asteroid When It Brushes by Earth in 2029

November 5, 2024

Nuclear Rockets Could Take Us to Mars in Half the Time. NASA Plans to Fly One by 2027.

October 22, 2024

Short Space Film “Wanderers” Reminds Us We Are All Explorers

Sveta McShane - December 2, 2014

How to Build a Starship — and Why We Should Start Thinking About It Now

Ian Crawford - January 27, 2016

Google Pledges $3 Million to Singularity University to Make Graduate Studies Program Free of Charge

Singularity Hub Staff - January 28, 2015

GSP 2015 Closing Ceremony: Meet 20+ Startups With Revolution on the Brain

Singularity University - July 22, 2015

Energy

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

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - December 2, 2024

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...

Scientists Say Net Zero Aviation Is Possible by 2050—If We Act Now

September 27, 2024

There Are Now More Electric Vehicles Than Gas-Powered Cars in Norway

September 19, 2024

UK Gives Sneak Peek of a Novel Fusion Reactor Shaped Like a Cored Apple

September 12, 2024

Meta Looks to Next-Gen Geothermal to Fuel Ravenous Data Centers

September 9, 2024

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

This Sleek Solar Car Goes 600 Miles on a Charge and Is Gearing Up for Production

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 16, 2022

This Solar Car Will Soon Hit Production—and It Costs Less Than $26K

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 14, 2022

Meta Looks to Next-Gen Geothermal to Fuel Ravenous Data Centers

Edd Gent - September 9, 2024

Future

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

Edd Gent - December 5, 2024

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

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

December 2, 2024

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

November 27, 2024

Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key

November 12, 2024

Europe Aims to Visit This Large Asteroid When It Brushes by Earth in 2029

November 5, 2024

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

Edd Gent - December 5, 2024

Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future

Sveta McShane - April 19, 2016

Summit Europe: To Anticipate the Future Is to Abandon Intuition

Jason Dorrier - November 23, 2014

The World in 2025: 8 Predictions for the Next 10 Years

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - May 11, 2015

Tech

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Exosomes Are Being Hyped as a ‘Silver Bullet’ Therapy. Scientists Say No.

Shelly Fan - December 26, 2024

When human stem cells were discovered at the turn of the century, it sparked a frenzy. Scientists immediately dreamed of repairing damaged tissues due...