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Hyperloop One shuts down, but the dream of superfast trains in vacuum tubes still lives on in China. (electrek.co)
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Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American sci-fi. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook. (www.scientificamerican.com)
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‘Graphene will change the world’: the boss using the ‘supermaterial’ in the global microchip war. (www.theguardian.com)
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A new California burger restaurant claims a world first - the first restaurant where all ordering and meal production is fully automated. (misorobotics.com)
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U.S. and China race to shield secrets from quantum computers (www.reuters.com)
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Meet Ashley, the world's first AI-powered political campaign caller (www.reuters.com)
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These scientists want to put a massive 'sunshade' in orbit to help fight climate change (www.space.com)
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$750 a month was given to homeless people in California. What they spent it on is more evidence that universal basic income works. (www.businessinsider.com)
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Election misinformation is systemic in Microsoft’s GPT-4 powered AI 'Copilot,’ Research shows one third of replies to election questions are lies, conspiracy theories, outdated, and incorrect info. (www.wired.com)
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Bridgewater, the US's biggest hedge fund, has a truly bizarre take on AI and robots replacing human workers. (www.bridgewater.com)
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Boston-based startup Fourth Power, says its 2400°C thermal battery will be 10X cheaper than lithium-ion (www.inceptivemind.com)
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How May Mobility went fully driverless while avoiding the pitfalls of robotaxis. (www.theverge.com)
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A Chinese EV squeezed over 1,000 km of range from its 150 kWh battery - Mass production of the new battery will begin in April 2024. (www.engadget.com)
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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 (www.newscientist.com)
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US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over (www.nature.com)
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New approach to 'cosmic magnet' manufacturing could reduce reliance on rare earths in low-carbon technologies (phys.org)
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Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science? Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research. (www.nature.com)
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In a World First, a Patient’s Antibody Cells Were Just Genetically Engineered. (www.wired.com)
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The US Democratic Party has begun using AI to phone voters and campaign on their behalf. The company providing the service says they expect to scale fast to thousands of calls a day. (www.reuters.com)
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Is AlphaCode 2 a Q* Moment for Google? (analyticsindiamag.com)
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AI Accelerates Ability to Program Biology Like Software (www.wsj.com)
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Australian researchers have achieved 40% accuracy with a non-invasive head cap that can decode silent thoughts and turn them into text. (www.uts.edu.au)
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Australian researchers develop a neuromorphic supercomputer capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, a rate comparable to the human brain's capabilities. (www.terradaily.com)
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Amazon to connect Project Kuiper Internet satellites in laser 'mesh network' that can transmit at 100 GB/s over 1,000 km. (www.upi.com)
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AI scientists make ‘exciting’ discovery using chatbots to solve maths problems - Breakthrough suggests technology behind ChatGPT and Bard can generate information that goes beyond human knowledge (www.theguardian.com)
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