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Ford CEO Jim Farley says western car companies who can't match Chinese technological innovation and standards face an "existential threat". (archive.ph)
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Techno-energy is reshaping the world - As energy changes from being a commodity to being a technology, traditional power brokers with reserves of fossil fuels will see their global leverage wane. (archive.ph)
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The next pandemic virus could be built using AI (thehill.com)
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Over 39 million deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections predicted from now to 2050 (www.scimex.org)
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Playing God with climate: the EU’s geoengineering conundrum (www.iss.europa.eu)
submitted 11 months ago by Espiritdescali@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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"Golden Lettuce" genetically engineered to pack 30 times more vitamins (newatlas.com)
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User Confused When AI Unexpectedly Starts Sobbing Out Loud (futurism.com)
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Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)
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AI-based tool reduces risk of unexpected deaths in hospitalized patients, finds study. (medicalxpress.com)
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The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride (www.wired.com)
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A space elevator on Ceres (with today's tech) and the gravitational assist of Jupiter for returning payloads back to Earth, could allow us to start mining the asteroid belt costing just $5 billion. (www.universetoday.com)
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Research in child day care centers in Helsinki shows purifying the air reduces infectious illness by almost 20%, and that purifying the air in all public spaces should be examined. (yle.fi)
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DEEPMIND: Two new AI systems, ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart, help robots learn to perform complex tasks that require dexterous movement (deepmind.google)
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The Auto Industry Finally Has a Plan to Stop Electric Vehicle Fires (www.wired.com)
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Google DeepMind teaches robot to autonomously clean a kitchen, tie shoelaces, and other tasks (readwrite.com)
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TL;DR

  • Google DeepMind's robots can now perform complex two-arm tasks like tying shoelaces.
  • New advancements like ALOHA Unleashed improve robots' dexterity and learning abilities.
  • The robots achieved a 98% success rate in various simulations, showing great potential.
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Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers (www.techradar.com)
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A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.

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Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power (archive.ph)
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Tricks from the oil industry have produced a hot-rocks breakthrough

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Earth to have new mini-moon for two months (phys.org)
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Scientists warn 70% of the world’s population to see rapid increase in ‘unprecedented’ weather (www.euronews.com)
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Demand for large capacity battery storage cells goes strong as prices continue to slide (pv-magazine-usa.com)
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Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts (phys.org)
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China plans to build moon base at the lunar south pole by 2035 (www.space.com)
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Study Supports Quantum Basis of Consciousness in the Brain - Neuroscience News (neurosciencenews.com)
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Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations (arstechnica.com)
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Quantum Experiment Could Finally Reveal The Elusive Gravity Particle (www.sciencealert.com)
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