- newNew Fast-Charging, Low-Cost Batteries Could Be a Game-Changer for Electric Cars
Despite their growing popularity, electric vehicle sales still lag behind gasoline cars, and one reason is the anxiety that comes from short ranges and slow refueling times—but recent breakthroughs suggest those fears might soon be dispelled. In th…
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- No Trees Harmed: MIT Aims to One Day Grow Your Kitchen Table in a Lab
You’ve likely heard the buzz around lab-grown (or cultured) meat. We can now take a few cells from a live animal and grow those cells into a piece of meat. The process is kinder to animals, consumes fewer resources, and has less environmental impac…
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE This Chinese Lab Is Aiming for Big AI Breakthroughs Will Knight | Wired “China produces as many artificial intelligence researchers as the US, but it lags in key fields like machine learning. The government hopes to make up…
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- Watch London’s Cool, Quirky Augmented Reality Art Exhibit at Home
It hasn’t been a great few months for museums, what with the pandemic shutting many of them down and forcing the rest to greatly limit visitors. But a new, well-timed art exhibit went on display last month in London, and no reservations or masks we…
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- Earth Has Stayed Habitable for Billions of Years. Exactly How Lucky Did We Get?
It took evolution three or four billion years to produce Homo sapiens. If the climate had completely failed just once in that time, then evolution would have come to a crashing halt and we would not be here now. So to understand how we came to exist…
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- This Artificial Heart Will Soon Be on the Market in Europe
Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the world, particularly in the US and Western Europe. Medical science has come up with some ingenious solutions to common heart problems, like pacemakers (which correct abnormal heart rhythms), s…
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- A Language AI Is Accurately Predicting Covid-19 ‘Escape’ Mutations
For all their simplicity, viruses are sneaky little life forces. Take SARS-Cov-2, the virus behind Covid-19. Challenged with the human immune system, the virus has gradually reshuffled parts of its genetic material, making it easier to spread among a…
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- How Mirroring the Architecture of the Human Brain Is Speeding Up AI Learning
While AI can carry out some impressive feats when trained on millions of data points, the human brain can often learn from a tiny number of examples. New research shows that borrowing architectural principles from the brain can help AI get closer to…
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- China Wants to Be the World’s AI Superpower. Does It Have What It Takes?
China’s star has been steadily rising for decades. Besides slashing extreme poverty rates from 88 percent to under 2 percent in just 30 years, the country has become a global powerhouse in manufacturing and technology. Its pace of growth may slow d…
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- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 16)
CRYPTOCURRENCY Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes Nathaniel Popper | The New York Times “Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of…
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