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Artificial Intelligence

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

Jason Dorrier - August 29, 2024

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

August 27, 2024

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

August 22, 2024

These Scientists Are Battling Dangerous Superbugs With a ChatGPT-Like AI

August 8, 2024

Bitcoin Miners Flush With Chips Are Pivoting to AI in Search of New Riches

August 6, 2024

This MIT Chatbot Simulates Your ‘Future Self.’ It’s Here to Help You Make Better Decisions.

Jason Dorrier - June 5, 2024

This Mind-Reading Cap Can Translate Thoughts to Text Thanks to AI

Jason Dorrier - December 12, 2023

Amazon’s Billion-Dollar Investment Arm Targets Generative AI in Robotics

Jason Dorrier - February 28, 2024

Breaking Into AI’s Black Box: Anthropic Maps the Mind of Its Claude Large Language Model

Edd Gent - May 29, 2024

Biotechnology

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

Shelly Fan - August 16, 2024

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

A Novel Treatment Slashes HIV Up to 10,000-Fold in Monkeys With Just a Single Dose

August 12, 2024

These Scientists Are Battling Dangerous Superbugs With a ChatGPT-Like AI

August 8, 2024

Ozempic-Like Drug Slows Cognitive Decline in Mild Alzheimer’s Disease

August 5, 2024

How a Mind-Controlling Parasite Could Deliver Medicine to the Brain

July 29, 2024

Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain

Aaron Saenz - May 14, 2009

AI Unearths Nearly a Million Potential Antibiotics to Take Out Superbugs

Shelly Fan - June 10, 2024

This AI Can Design the Machinery of Life With Atomic Precision

Shelly Fan - March 8, 2024

A Ball of Brain Cells on a Chip Can Learn Simple Speech Recognition and Math

Shelly Fan - December 14, 2023

Computing

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

Jason Dorrier - August 15, 2024

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...

Bitcoin Miners Flush With Chips Are Pivoting to AI in Search of New Riches

August 6, 2024

This Enormous Computer Chip Beat the World’s Top Supercomputer at Molecular Modeling

July 9, 2024

Researchers Say Quantum Computers Could Scale Fast With Modular Design

May 30, 2024

Scientists Step Toward Quantum Internet With Experiment Under the Streets of Boston

May 16, 2024

AI-Powered Brain Implant Smashes Speed Record for Turning Thoughts Into Text

Shelly Fan - January 31, 2023

A Ball of Brain Cells on a Chip Can Learn Simple Speech Recognition and Math

Shelly Fan - December 14, 2023

The World’s Biggest AI Chip Now Comes Stock With 2.6 Trillion Transistors

Jason Dorrier - April 25, 2021

Quantum Computers Could Crack Encryption Sooner Than Expected With New Algorithm

Edd Gent - October 2, 2023

Space

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

Shelly Fan - August 26, 2024

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...

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

August 20, 2024

A New ‘Guest Star’ Will Appear in the Sky Soon. Here’s How Novas Work and Where to Look.

August 13, 2024

This Ultra-Thin Lightsail Could Tow Tiny Spacecraft to the Nearest Stars

July 31, 2024

Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet

July 17, 2024

The World’s Space Agencies Are on a Quest to Deflect a (Harmless) Asteroid

Jason Dorrier - September 27, 2020

The Biggest Simulation of the Universe Yet Stretches Back to the Big Bang

Jason Dorrier - September 17, 2021

Exploding Stars Are Rare—but if One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life on Earth

Chris Impey - April 16, 2024

Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship

Edd Gent - April 12, 2024

Energy

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

Edd Gent - September 2, 2024

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...

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

August 23, 2024

China Demonstrates the First Entirely Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor

July 26, 2024

Smelting Steel With Sunlight: New Solar Trap Tech Could Help Decarbonize Industrial Heat

May 17, 2024

Global Carbon Capture Capacity Quadruples as the Biggest Plant Yet Revs Up in Iceland

May 10, 2024

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

China Demonstrates the First Entirely Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor

Edd Gent - July 26, 2024

Better Than Batteries? A Startup That’s Storing Energy in Concrete Blocks Just Raised $100 Million

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 1, 2021

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

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 14, 2022

Future

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

Patrick Lin - September 3, 2024

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...

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

August 29, 2024

This Is What Could Happen if AI Content Is Allowed to Take Over the Internet

July 25, 2024

Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet

July 17, 2024

How ‘Dune’ Became a Beacon for the Fledgling Environmental Movement—and a Rallying Cry for the New Science of Ecology

July 5, 2024

This MIT Chatbot Simulates Your ‘Future Self.’ It’s Here to Help You Make Better Decisions.

Jason Dorrier - June 5, 2024

Europe’s Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - December 11, 2020

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

IMF Says AI Will Upend Jobs and Boost Inequality. MIT CSAIL Says Not Fast.

Edd Gent - January 22, 2024

Tech

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 7)

Singularity Hub Staff - September 7, 2024

ROBOTICS This Could Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution Will Knight | Wired "In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that...