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Artificial Intelligence

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

Shelly Fan - December 6, 2024

This was another year of rollercoaster weather. Heat domes broiled the US southwest. California experienced a “second summer” in October, with multiple cities breaking...

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

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

November 27, 2024

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

November 21, 2024

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

Edd Gent - November 21, 2024

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

Shelly Fan - November 18, 2024

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

Flora Salim - November 1, 2024

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

Shelly Fan - August 22, 2024

Biotechnology

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

Shelly Fan - November 22, 2024

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...

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

November 18, 2024

Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You

November 14, 2024

This Ambitious Project Wants to Sequence the DNA of All Complex Life on Earth

November 11, 2024

Solar-Powered ‘Planimal’ Cells? Chloroplasts in Hamster Cells Make Food From Light

November 8, 2024

The Future of Healthcare Is Arriving—8 Exciting Areas to Watch

Daniel Kraft, MD - August 22, 2016

Are We Reaching the Limit of Human Longevity? A New Study Says Yes

Shelly Fan - October 14, 2024

The Legally Blind See Again With an Implant the Size of a Grain of Salt

Shelly Fan - October 28, 2024

This Radical New Farming Method Would Replace Photosynthesis With Solar Power

Shelly Fan - October 24, 2024

Computing

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

Edd Gent - October 25, 2024

Finding ways to connect the human body to technology could have broad applications in health and entertainment. A new "electric plastic" could make self-powered...

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

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

August 15, 2024

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

August 6, 2024

MIT Researchers Create Artificial Synapses 10,000x Faster Than Biological Ones

Edd Gent - August 1, 2022

Biocomputing With Mini-Brains as Processors Could Be More Powerful Than Silicon-Based AI

Shelly Fan - March 7, 2023

An IBM Quantum Computer Beat a Supercomputer in a Benchmark Test

Shelly Fan - June 20, 2023

IBM Is Planning to Build Its First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2029

Jason Dorrier - December 6, 2023

Space

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

Natasha Hurley-Walker - December 3, 2024

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...

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

Dusty Snow on Mars Could Harbor Life According to a New NASA Simulation

October 21, 2024

NASA Visualization Shows Supermassive Black Holes That Could Swallow Our Solar System Whole

Jason Dorrier - May 7, 2023

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

Cosmology Is at a Tipping Point—We May Be on the Verge of Discovering New Physics

Andreea Font - September 24, 2024

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

These Plants Could Mine Valuable Metals From the Soil With Their Roots

Edd Gent - March 28, 2024

New Zealand Is About to Test Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission

Jason Dorrier - August 30, 2020

If Energy Becomes Free in the Future, How Will That Affect Our Lives?

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - March 11, 2018

These Mini Wind Generators With No Spinning Blades Can Power Homes and Buildings

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - October 19, 2022

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

Watch the Complete Evolution of the Terminator’s Killer Robots

Jason Dorrier - July 3, 2015

Ray Kurzweil’s Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - January 26, 2015

Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating — Because It Actually Is

Alison E. Berman - March 22, 2016

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

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - May 11, 2015

Tech

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

Singularity Hub Staff - December 7, 2024

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The GPT Era Is Already Ending Matteo Wong | The Atlantic " has been unusually direct that the o1 series is the future: Chen, who...