Futurology
- www.businessinsider.com The world's first human brain-scale supercomputer will go live next year
The supercomputer, named DeepSouth, will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations a second, rivalling operations of the human brain.
- www.scientificamerican.com Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals
AI is poised to revolutionize our understanding of animal communication
- medicalxpress.com Regeneration across complete spinal cord injuries reverses paralysis
When the spinal cords of mice and humans are partially damaged, the initial paralysis is followed by the extensive, spontaneous recovery of motor function. However, after a complete spinal cord injury, this natural repair of the spinal cord doesn't occur and there is no recovery. Meaningful recovery...
- www.canarymedia.com Chart: The remarkable rise of California’s grid battery capacity
In 2020, California had 500 megawatts of grid battery storage. Now, just three years later, it has over 5,000 megawatts.
- themessenger.com NYPD to Deploy Robot Cop to Times Square Subway Station
The mayor says they are paying less per hour than the city's minimum wage to lease the robot
- www.businessinsider.com 'This is the last opportunity for us to wake up': A leading economist warns we're headed for an AI-driven cataclysm
How Daron Acemoglu, one of the world's most respected experts on the economic effects of technology, learned to start worrying and fear AI.
- www.businessinsider.com Indeed's CEO says college students might be learning skills that could go 'obsolete' once they graduate — all because of AI
Will everything you learned in college be replaced by ChatGPT? The CEO of job site Indeed says it's not out of the question.
- futurism.com Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records
An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.
- www.pcworld.com Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more
The latest updates to Google’s generative AI chat bot lets it dig through your personal email, documents, and more—so you can get things done faster.
- www.cnbc.com Nearly half of CEOs believe AI could replace their own jobs, says new poll—and 47% say that's a good thing
Many American CEOs say they're worried about their workplace's lack of AI skills, a new survey of C-suite executives and workers found. Here's why.
- www.newsweek.com China aims to replicate human brain in bid to dominate global AI
The pursuit of the most advanced AI—human-like artificial general intelligence—has prompted concerns among experts about potential dangers if it runs amok.
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63 percent of Americans want regulation to prevent artificial general intelligence, or AGI, which OpenAI aims to build.
- interestingengineering.com Intel's glass substrate promises 1T transistors by 2030
Intel said it has made a significant breakthrough in the development of glass substrates for next-generation advanced packaging.
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Wrongly arrested because of facial recognition: Why new police tech risks serious miscarriages of justice
www.independent.co.uk Why police use of facial recognition risks miscarriages of justiceThe latest generation of police surveillance tools are overused, underregulated and often completely wrong, opponents tell Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward
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NYT: after peaking at 10 billion this century we could drop fast to 2 billion
www.nytimes.com Opinion | All of the Predictions Agree on One Thing: Humanity Peaks SoonMost people now live in countries where two or fewer children are born for every two adults.
- www.cnbc.com Agility Robotics is opening a humanoid robot factory, beating Tesla to the punch
A first of its kind factory that will build humanoid robots is set to open in Salem, Oregon
- pv-magazine-usa.com Planes, trains, or automobiles: Which has the lowest carbon footprint?
Three industry professionals traveled 3,000 miles across America. Their mission: to dissect their carbon footprint. What they found was a complex calculation, with results more tightly-knit than an…
Three industry professionals traveled 3,000 miles across America. Their mission: to dissect their carbon footprint. What they found was a complex calculation, with results more tightly-knit than anticipated – and a CO2 revelation.
- www.businessinsider.com 'Harry Potter' audiobook narrator Stephen Fry said AI was used to steal his voice, and warned that convincing deepfake videos of celebrities will be next
Stephen Fry said he was "shocked" when AI cloned his voice because it could "have me read anything from a call to storm Parliament to hard porn."
- www.oneusefulthing.org Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....
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Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Gains Momentum With a Big New Closed-Loop System
With growing concerns about supply shortages, recycled battery materials could soon be playing a major role in the electric vehicle transition.
- scitechdaily.com New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease
Researchers from Pritzker Molecular Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, demonstrated that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune response linked to multiple sclerosis. Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have developed
This is fascinating as it works contrary to how most vaccines work. The usual method is to teach the immune system to attack things ( Covid, Polio, Influenza, etc, etc). This does the opposite, it makes the immune system forget to attack things it shouldn't be attacking. The list of autoimmune diseases is long, and many people suffer from them.
That said, this is only a Phase 1 Clinical trial. That will test if the vaccine is safe, and see what its side-effects are. The journey from amazing lab results to a viable treatment is rocky, and often ends in failure. Still, if this can prove its potential as a treatment it will be revolutionary.
- interestingengineering.com Genetically modified bacteria may eat up ocean plastic waste
This genetically engineered microorganism has the ability to break down a type of plastic known as polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
- www.sciencealert.com Liquid Computer Made From DNA Comprises Billions of Circuits
For eons, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has served as a sort of instruction manual for life, providing not just templates for a vast array of chemical structures but a means of managing their production.
- www.businessinsider.com Astronauts explain why no human has visited the moon in 50 years — and the reasons why are depressing
The last time a human visited the moon was in December 1972 during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Since then, there have been many foiled plans to go back.
- scitechdaily.com 90% Reduction: Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Eradicates Plaques and Cavities
3,3′-Diindolylmethane (DIM) decreased the Streptococcus mutans biofilm, a leading contributor to plaque and cavities, by 90%. A significant portion of the global population experiences persistent issues with dental plaque and cavities or will face them at some time. While toothpaste, mouthwash, and
- thebulletin.org If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI
Advances in artificial intelligence have prompted extensive public concern about its capacity to contribute to the spread of misinformation, bias, and cybersecurity breaches—and its potential existential threat to humanity. But, if anything, AI can aid human beings in making decisions aimed at impro...
- phys.org German circus replaces live animals with holograms
The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place.
"If you can project someone who's no longer living onto a holographic screen, why can't you do it with an animal, a horse, an elephant?"
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- sociable.co 'While We Are Learning To Use AI, It Is Learning To Use Us': Yuval Harari to UN AI for Good Summit
Historian Yuval Noah Harari tells the UN's AI for Good Summit that "while we are learning to use AI, it is learning to use us," and that we should slow down its deployment, not development.
- www.businessinsider.com A 45-year-old tech exec who says he has reduced his biological age by 5 years says he finishes his last meal of the day by 11 a.m.
Bryan Johnson tweeted on Tuesday about some details of his daily routine, including that he finishes eating early in the day.
- tech.co ChatGPT Use Declined for the First Time Since Launch
Monthly traffic and unique visitors were down in June, the first sign of decline since it launched in November.
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Synthetic Cells Stripped of Nearly All Their Genes Still Thrive Under Evolution
Stripped down to a skeletal genetic blueprint, the artificial cells were dealt a losing hand for survival—yet they thrived.
- www.neowin.net Mastercard has developed a new AI tool to prevent scams
Mastercard has developed a new AI tool called Consumer Fraud Risk which helps banks to stop people from sending money to scammers. It could help prevent the loss of £100 million every year.
Mastercard has launched a new AI solution in the UK called Consumer Fraud Risk (CFR). The company said the software works in real-time to predict and prevent payments to scams of all kinds.
- www.theguardian.com AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ man who planned to kill queen, court told
Chatbot said it was ‘impressed’ when Jaswant Singh Chail told it he was ‘an assassin’ before he broke into Windsor Castle, court hears
- www.sciencedaily.com AI finds a way to people's hearts (literally!): Unveiling a groundbreaking and accurate AI-based method to classify cardiac function and disease using chest X-Rays
Scientists have successfully developed a model that utilizes AI to accurately classify cardiac functions and valvular heart diseases from chest radiographs. The Area Under the Curve, or AUC, of the AI classification showed a high level of accuracy, exceeding 0.85 for almost all indicators and reachi...