- newWatch This Shape-Shifting Robot Melt to Escape a Cage, Then Reform
Flight. Invisibility. Mind-reading. Super-strength. These powers have mostly been limited to the realms of science fiction and fantasy, though we’re starting to see robots and computers replicate some of them. Now a small robot built by an internat…
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- AI-Powered Brain Implant Smashes Speed Record for Turning Thoughts Into Text
We speak at a rate of roughly 160 words every minute. That speed is incredibly difficult to achieve for speech brain implants. Decades in the making, speech implants use tiny electrode arrays inserted into the brain to measure neural activity, with t…
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- New ‘Mega Ranch’ Will Grow 45 Million Pounds of Mushroom Root for Plant-Based Meat
Last July, New York-based startup MyForest foods announced the opening of a vertical farm that would grow three million pounds of mycelium a year, all for plant-based bacon. Now competitor Meati Foods is blowing them out of the water with a facility…
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- Technology Over the Long Run: Zoom Out to See How Dramatically the World Can Change Within a Lifetime
Technology can change the world in ways that are unimaginable, until they happen. Switching on an electric light would have been unimaginable for our medieval ancestors. In their childhood, our grandparents would have struggled to imagine a world con…
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- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 28)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Has Designed Bacteria-Killing Proteins From Scratch—and They Work Karmela Padavic-Callaghan | New Scientist “The AI, called ProGen, works in a similar way to AIs that can generate text. ProGen learned how to generate n…
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- AstroForge’s Space Mining Tech Will Get Its First Real-World Test This Year
Asteroid mining has long caught the imagination of space entrepreneurs, but conventional wisdom has always been that it’s little more than a pipe dream. That may be about to change after a startup announced plans to launch two missions this year de…
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- Deepfakes: Faces Created by AI Now Look More Real Than Genuine Photos
Even if you think you are good at analyzing faces, research shows many people cannot reliably distinguish between photos of real faces and images that have been computer-generated. This is particularly problematic now that computer systems can create…
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- CRISPR’s Wild First Decade Only Scratches the Surface of Its Potential
Ten years ago, a little-known bacterial defense mechanism skyrocketed to fame as a powerful genome editor. In the decade since, CRISPR-Cas9 has spun off multiple variants, expanding into a comprehensive toolbox that can edit the genetic code of life.…
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- Electric Vehicle Batteries Could Meet Grid-Scale Storage Needs by 2030
Boosting the role of renewables in our electricity supply will require a massive increase in grid-scale energy storage. But new research suggests that electric vehicle batteries could meet short-term storage demands by as soon as 2030. While solar an…
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- Google Scrambles to Catch Up in the Wake of OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Google is one of the biggest companies on Earth. Google’s search engine is the front door to the internet. And according to recent reports, Google is scrambling. Late last year, OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company at the forefront of the fie…
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