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AI PENDANT IS ALWAYS LISTENING & WANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND
BY: MATTY MERRITT ... They invented a tiny bot to reassure you that no one’s mad at you when you’re too high at Trader Joe’s. It can do other stuff … continue reading

SIX INNOVATIVE WAYS HUMANS HAVE KEPT COOL THROUGHOUT HISTORY
BY: LAURA KINIRY ... From sleeping porches to coastal escapes, these tips and tricks helped people deal with extreme heat before the advent of air-conditioning … continue reading

GOOD LUCK SNEAKING IN HERE ANYMORE
BY: MOLLY LIEBERGALL ... Your days of borrowing mom’s card to grab a rotisserie chicken are numbered … continue reading

CHINESE DOCTOR REMOVES PATIENT’S LUNG TUMOR USING ROBOT FROM 3,000 MILES AWAY
BY: ANDY CORBLEY ... Is the above image the future of medicine? In it, Dr. Luo Qingquan uses a sophisticated control center to guide a set of robotic surgery tools to remove a tumor from a patient’s lung 3,000 miles … continue reading

SPACEX RESCUE? STUCK STARLINER ASTRONAUTS TO BREAK SPACE STATION BREAD FOR 6 MORE MONTHS
BY: MRIGAKSHI DIXIT ... In response to NASA’s update, Boeing maintained its position that the Starliner remains capable of safely bringing the astronauts … continue reading

CHINA’S ROBOT WITH LIGHT-DRIVEN SYSTEM CAN BE USED LIKE BULLET - TRANSFORM BALLISTICS
BY: PRABHAT RANJAN MISHRA ... This power-amplification strategy provides a basis for propulsive motion to advance the capabilities of miniaturized soft robotic … continue reading

NEW ELECTRIC BANDAGES HEAL WOUNDS 30% QUICKER THAN CONVENTIONAL DRESSINGS
BY: GOOD NEWS JOURNALIST ... A water-powered electric bandage can heal serious wounds 30% quicker than conventional treatments, according to a new … continue reading

SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERY AFTER ANALYZING CLOTH ‘JESUS WAS BURIED IN’
BY: DYLAN GWINN ... A team of scientists analyzing the Shroud of Turin, a large piece of cloth believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ Himself, have determined … continue reading

SOCIAL MEDIA IS JUNK FOOD FOR INFORMATION FORAGERS
BY: CARL T. BERGSTROM & C. BRANDON OGBUNU ... Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavior … continue reading

US, TAIWAN TO BUILD 3D-PRINTED ‘DRONE ARMY’ TO COUNTER CHINA
BY: KAPIL KAJAL ... 3D-printed drone manufacturing can help reduce drones’ storage footprint by a factor of 10 at a lower cost of manufacture … continue reading

SMARTPHONES REWIRED CHILDHOOD - HERE’S HOW TO FIX IT
BY: JONATHAN HAIDT... For the past decade, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been explaining the human condition to us better than just about anyone else … continue reading

FACES MADE OF LIVING SKIN MAKE ROBOTS SMILE
BY: MICHELLE ROBERTS ... Japanese scientists have found a way to attach living skin to robot faces, for more realistic smiles and other facial expressions … continue reading

A SUPERMARKET TRIP MAY SOON LOOK DIFFERENT - THANKS TO ELECTRONIC SHELF LABELS
BY: LOLA MURTI ... Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers … continue reading

WHY 7-ELEVEN PLAYS CLASSICAL MUSIC OUTSIDE ITS STORES
BY: MARK DENT ... This spring at a 7-Eleven near downtown Tacoma, Washington, patrons filled up their gasoline tanks to a surprising soundtrack: the haunting pitch of a classical string … continue reading

BUSINESSMAN-BACKED AI CANDIDATE STEVE RUNS FOR UK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
BY: SUJITA SINHA ... Steve Endacott, an entrepreneur hailing from southern England, has introduced AI Steve—a groundbreaking artificial intelligence set to contest … continue reading

NEAR-FLAWLESS QUANTUM TELEPORTATION DEMONSTRATED IN GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT
BY: STUDY FINDS STAFF ... Beam me up, Scotty! In a study that seems straight out of a “Star Trek” episode, an international team of researchers has achieved a remarkable feat in the realm of quantum teleportation … continue reading

LITHIUM BATTERY PLANT WITH 35,000 UNITS BLOWS UP IN SOUTH KOREA
BY: SUJITA SINHA ... The fire broke out in the early hours of Monday, at around 10:30 a.m. at a factory run by battery manufacturer Aricell in Hwaseong … continue reading

HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY TO THE BARCODE
BY: SAM KLEBANOV ... This week marks 50 years since commerce met the barcode, a visual symbol whose impact on business has been far more than symbolic … continue reading

ELECTRIC FLYING TAXIS ARE QUIETLY SNEAKING UP ON US
BY: STEVEN ASHLEY ... When the electric air taxi revolution arrives, you probably won’t it hear coming. A remarkable feature of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is how quietly it flies … continue reading

WILL AI REPLACE PROGRAMMERS? THE FUTURE OF PROGRAMMING
BY: JERRY WALLIS ... Unless you’ve been living in an alternate universe, you’ve no doubt heard about ChatGPT, OpenAI, Gemini and the AI hype that’s taken over the tech world … continue reading

CA’S NEW MINIMUM WAGE DRAWS MAXIMUM CONTROVERSY
BY: DAVE LOZO ... Fast-food workers will get a big pay bump but small businesses could close up shop. … continue reading

APPLE PLANS TO OVERHAUL ENTIRE MAC LINE WITH AI-FOCUSED M4 CHIPS
BY: MAC REPTS. ... So far, all generative AI can do is lie, defame, and make stuff up. It’s not an error, it’s by design. Just ask Google. Anything AI excretes, wether textual or image or video has to be assumed to be false … continue reading

NORWAY BANNED SMART PHONES IN SCHOOLS
BY: TOD PERRY ... Norway banned smart phones in schools and it has been very good for young girls Should they be banned in schools everywhere … continue reading

CULTURED BEEF RICE: 'HYBRID' FOOD ENGINEERED FOR WARFARE, SPACE TRAVEL
BY: SEJAL SHARMA ... In eatables that could be used during wars or in space, where there’s usually a scarcity of edible food, a new kind of ‘hybrid’ meals … continue reading

US RESEARCHERS DEVELOP 'UNHACKABLE' COMPUTER CHIP THAT WORKS ON LIGHT
BY: AMEYA PALEJA ... Computations can be performed at light speed in this chip which is ready for deployment for building AI models immediatel … continue reading

THE NEW SELF-AMPLIFYING RNA VACCINES PROMISE TO BE DOUBLE, TRIPLE, QUADRUPLE THE FUN!
BY: KAREN HUNT ... It’s all part of a quest to discover the best ways to send messages through human bodies instructing those bodies to perform in whatever way they are ordered … continue reading

NEURALINK IMPLANTED THE FIRST BRAIN CHIP INTO A HUMAN IN JANUARY
BY: ZEROHEDGE ... In an X Spaces event, Elon Musk revealed the first human patient implanted with a brain chip from Neuralink has made a “full recovery … continue reading

THE GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF GENERATIVE AI
BY: DAVID BERREBY ... Two months after its release in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT had 100 million active users, and suddenly tech corporations were racing to offer … continue reading

ROBOTS MADE FROM HUMAN CELLS CAN MOVE ON THEIR OWN & HEAL WOUNDS
BY: PHILIP BALL ... In 2020 biologist Michael Levin and his colleagues reported that they had made “biological robots” by shaping clusters of cells into tiny artificial forms that could “walk” around on surfaces … continue reading

CHINESE SPACEPLANE RELEASES SIX MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS THAT ARE EMITTING SIGNALS WHAT'S THE SPACECRAFT UP TO?
BY: VICTOR TANGERMANN ... After embarking on its third mission, China's top-secret spaceplane, dubbed Shenlong, has released six mysterious objects into Earth's orbit … continue reading

HERE’S WHAT 6 EXPERTS THINK WILL HAPPEN IN THE TECH WORLD IN 2024
BY:CHRIS STOKEL-WALKER ... From the AI revolution to the fight for social media supremacy, there are plenty of uncertainties as we look ahead toward 2024 … continue reading

IS THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY READY TO CONFRONT ITS GREATEST CHALLENGE YET?
BY: BART PLACKLÉ ... The first automobile, a marvel of technological innovation, hit the road nearly 150 years ago. Undoubtedly a great achievement—yet one that pales in comparison to the challenges car manufacturers face today … continue reading

CALIFORNIA SCIENTISTS UNVEIL FIRE-SAFE LIQUID FUEL THAT DOES NOT REACT TO FLAME
BY: GOOD NEWS STAFF ... Chemical engineers in California have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current … continue reading

WHY WE’LL NEVER LIVE IN SPACE
BY: SARAH SCOLES ... Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space … continue reading

YOU'RE FIRED - CEO ROASTS HUMAN WORKERS HE FIRED & REPLACED WITH CHATGPT
BY: VICTOR TANGERMANN ... "IT WAS A NO-BRAINER FOR ME TO REPLACE THE ENTIRE TEAM WITH A BOT." … continue reading

MEET THE NEXT GENERATION OF DOCTORS—AND THEIR SURGICAL ROBOTS
BY: NEHA MUKHERJEE ... When medical student Alyssa Murillo stepped into surgery, she was met with something most wouldn’t expect to find in an operating room: a towering surgical robot … continue reading

SEVEN THINGS SCIENCE HAS REVEALED ABOUT ALIENS SO FAR
BY: BBC FUTURE TEAM ... Lunar bugs to ocean moons: seven things science has revealed about aliens so far. Extraterrestrial life could really be out there among the stars – here is some of what we have learned thanks to science … continue reading

THESE PLANT-BASED MICROROBOTS COULD SAVE YOU TRIPS TO THE HOSPITAL
BY: AMAL JOS CHACKO ... A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo has unveiled a remarkable leap in medical technology … continue reading

HOW SHOULD CHRISTIANS RESPOND TO AI? BIAS, DECISION-MAKING, AND DATA PROCESSING
BY: JAMES SPENCER - PRESIDENT OF THE D.L. MOODY CENTER ... The claim that AI’s unbiased and unemotional decision-making, combined with its ability to process massive amounts of data, will lead to … continue reading

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION POLLUTED WITH HARMFUL CHEMICALS
BY: MRIGAKSHI DIXIT ... The study found that the concentration of chemical contaminants on the ISS notably exceeds that of dust on the floors of homes in the United States and Western Europe … continue reading

A BACKGROUND ‘HUM’ PERVADES THE UNIVERSE - SCIENTISTS ARE RACING TO FIND ITS SOURCE
BY: JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN ... Astronomers are now seeking to pinpoint the origins of an exciting new form of gravitational waves that was announced earlier this year … continue reading

HOW LASER WEAPONS ARE CHANGING MILITARY DEFENSE AND OFFENSE
BY: TREVOR ENGLISH ... Laser weapons are agile, have infinite ammunition, and can take down a variety of targets … continue reading

TERMITES OUTSMART HUMANS WHEN IT COMES TO HVAC SYSTEMS
BY: MELISSA BREYER ... Termite mounds can teach us the secret to creating "living and breathing" buildings … continue reading

WHAT IS CHATGPT & WILL IT REPLACE HUMAN JOBS?
BY: JERRY WALLIS ... ChatGPT is the only chatbot that can tell corny jokes, write complex computer code, and compose high-flown poetry … continue reading

OPTICAL COMPUTERS RUN A MILLION TIMES FASTER THAN CONVENTIONAL COMPUTERS
BY: STEPHEN VICINANZA ... Traditional computer's input signals run at a snail's pace compared to light-generated input signals … continue reading

NUCLEAR FUSION BREAKTHROUGH COULD DELIVER CLEAN POWER TOO CHEAP TO METER
BY: LLOYD ALTER ... The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) accomplished what's being called the holy grail of fusion … continue reading

BOSTON DYNAMICS & FIVE OTHER ROBOT MAKERS PLEDGE NOT TO WEAPONIZE THEIR ROBOTS
BY: LOUKIA PAPADOPOULOS ... Boston Dynamics and other robot companies signed a pledge on Thursday not to make any robots that can harm humans … continue reading

THE BRUCE WILLIS DEEPFAKE IS EVERYONE’S PROBLEM
BY: DAMINI SHARMA ... For some specialists, this transferability might result in folks shedding management of their “personality” … continue reading

THIS NEW FARMING ROBOT USES LASERS TO KILL 200,000 WEEDS PER HOUR
BY: LOUKIA PAPADOPOULOS ... It consists of an autonomous, laserweeding pull-behind robot that seamlessly attaches to the back of tractors … continue reading

IF YOU WANT MORE TECH-LIFE BALANCE, DO THIS TO PROTECT YOUR BRAIN
BY: DR. CARL MARCI ... A board-certified psychiatrist shares five key insights about how the most interconnected part of the human brain can avoid … continue reading

SOUTH AMERICA'S 'LITHIUM FIELDS' REVEAL THE DARK SIDE OF OUR ELECTRIC FUTURE
BY: MAEVE CAMPBELL ... Lithium extraction fields in South America have been captured by an aerial photographer in stunning high definition … continue reading

HERE’S WHY YOU’RE STILL STUCK IN ROBOCALL HELL
BY: LILY HAY NEWMAN ... Despite major progress fighting spam and scams, the roots of the problem go far deeper than your phone company’s defenses … continue reading

SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES WITH MEMORY? RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND A WAY
BY: CAN EMIR ... This could help autonomous cars reach their destinations much more safely … continue reading

THE LONG, UNCERTAIN ROAD TO ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
BY: TRISTAN GREENE ... A versatile new AI is fueling speculation that machines will soon think like humans … continue reading

WILL THE METAVERSE END THE MEGACHURCH?
BY: LEONARDO BLAIR ... Months before the coronavirus pandemic hit, many churches struggled to acknowledgethat an increasing share of their audience … continue reading

BRAIN CHIP FIRM NEURALINK LINES UP CLINICAL TRIALS IN HUMANS
BY: RUPERT NEATE ... Implants that Musk says could allow paralysed people to walk already tested on a macaque … continue reading

HIRING IS A PAIN - THESE 5 COMPANIES SAY A.I. CAN MAKE IT BETTER
BY: REBECCA DECZYNSKI ... Amid the Great Resignation and resulting labor shortage, technology may be your best bet at finding qualified candidates who will actually stay--as long as you use it the right way … continue reading

A MYSTERIOUS AND POWERFUL RADIO SIGNAL FROM SPACE IS REPEATING ITSELF
BY: NICOLE KARLIS/SALON... A mysterious and powerful radio signal from space is repeating itself - Outer space is chirping, and no one quite knows why. … continue reading

APPARENTLY, IT'S THE NEXT BIG THING. WHAT IS THE METAVERSE?
BY: BBC NEWS STAFF ...Facebook has just announced it's going to hire 10,000 people in Europe to develop the "metaverse" … continue reading

THE RACE TO UNDERSTAND THE EXHILARATING, DANGEROUS WORLD OF LANGUAGE AI
BY: KAREN HAO ... Hundreds of scientists around the world are working together to understand one of the most powerful emerging technologies before it’s too late. On May 18, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced an impressive new tool: an AI system called LaMDA that can chat to users about any subject … continue reading

WHY QUANTUM COMPUTING WILL CHANGE LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
BY: FASTCO WORKS ... Its ability to tackle complex, “unsolvable” problems is mind-bending—and it’s at our doorstep. It used to be that geeks bragged of computers’ sheer speed—clock rates and teraflops—but the machines of tomorrow will be measured in volume. In March, Honeywell unveiled the world’s highest-performing quantum computer, the System Model H1, which boasts an … continue reading

ROBO-WRITERS: THE RISE AND RISKS OF LANGUAGE-GENERATING AI
BY: MATTHEW HUTSON ... In June 2020, a new and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) began dazzling technologists in Silicon Valley. Called GPT-3 and created by the research firm OpenAI in San Francisco, California, it was the latest and most powerful in a series of ‘large language models’: AIs that generate fluent streams of text after imbibing billions of words from books, articles … continue reading

THE FBI JUST SNUCK INTO COMPUTERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO STOP A HACKING CAMPAIGN
BY: LUCAS ROPEK ... In what may be a first-of-its-kind operation, the FBI recently accessed private servers across the United States, ostensibly to delete malware that had previously been installed by foreign hackers. The FBI targeted this unique digital clean-up at servers running the vulnerability-ridden … continue reading

WAYMO BEGINS ROBO-TAXI TESTS IN SAN FRANCISCO
BY: KYLE WIGGERS ... Waymo today announced that it has begun limited rider testing with employee volunteers in San Francisco to gather feedback and improve its robo-taxi technology. It’s the first expansion of the Alphabet subsidiary’s ride-hailing service beyond the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, where Waymo launched its first commercial driverless taxi service … continue reading

AMAZON’S NEW CEO IS SHAPING HOW THE MILITARY USES KILLER ROBOTS
BY: DAVE GERSHGORN ... Andy Jassy is a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence July 1, Amazon will have a new CEO. Andy Jassy, who is replacing Jeff Bezos, helped build the company’s cloud business from scratch, cementing its servers as a cornerstone of the internet … continue reading

SEVEN TECHNOLOGIES TO WATCH IN 2021
BY: ESTHER LANDHUIS ... COVID considerations unsurprisingly dominate the tech developments that could have a big impact in the coming year. This year looks to be a promising one for technology development … continue reading

‘HACKERS’ BROAD ATTACK SETS CYBER EXPERTS WORLDWIDE SCRAMBLING TO DEFEND NETWORKS
BY: REUTERS & ALGEMEINER STAFF ... Suspected Russian hackers who broke into US government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a US internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security source … continue reading

‘YOU HAVE 15 SECONDS TO COMPLY’: NYPD SAYS NEW ROBOTIC COP DOG WILL ‘SAVE LIVES’ AS NETIZENS WARN OF SCI-FI DYSTOPIA
BY: RT ... The NYPD has unveiled a new dog-like robot it says it will use to fight crime and “save lives,” but some netizens see the gadget as another step toward high-tech tyranny, reminiscent of dystopias from ‘RoboCop’ to ‘Black Mirror’. Dubbed the “Digidog,” … continue reading

THIS AI CAN TELL WHICH INSTAGRAM PHOTOS ARE EDITED
BY: MIHAI ANDREI ... The future is here: it's AI versus the Gram. While the world is legitimately worried about deepfakes and other clever manipulations , one form of manipulation has been around for ages: Photoshop. We all know that magazine photos are often cleverly edited … continue reading

WHAT IS AN ALGORITHM? HOW COMPUTERS KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH DATA
BY: JORY DENNY ... Computer algorithms can involve complicated math, but the concept of an algorithm is simple. The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. One word in particular is used throughout computing – algorithm … continue reading

DESIGNER USES AI TO BRING 54 ROMAN EMPERORS TO LIFE
BY: ROBBY BERMAN ... It's hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from. A quarantine project gone wild produces the possibly realistic faces of ancient Roman rulers. A designer worked with a machine learning app to produce the images. It's impossible to know if they're accurate, but they sure look plausible … continue reading

SMART DUST
BY: MAIZE. ... Smart Dust is a system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect light, temperature, vibration, magnetism, chemicals and other stimuli. In 1965, Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, predicted that the number of components that could fit on a single chip could double every 2 years … continue reading

US ARMY IS DEVELOPING SELF-HEALING & SHAPE-SHIFTING MATERIAL
BY: STACY LIBERATORE ... US Army is developing self-healing and shape-shifting material that could lead to 'Terminator-style' drones which morph to adapt to new threats. The US Army is pulling inspiration from the popular film 'Terminator 2' in designing material capable of shape-shifting and autonomously healing … continue reading

‘SMART’ FACE MASK FROM JAPAN TRANSLATES 8 LANGUAGES, BOOSTING COMMUNICATION IN ‘NEW NORMAL’
BY: ELIAS MARAT ... Engineers have designed a smart facial mask that can help not only amplify voices, but can also translate speech into eight different languages. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow with no end in sight in the foreseeable future, face masks have become an essential part of our daily lives … continue reading

JAPAN’S LIFE-SIZE, FULLY FUNCTIONAL 55,000-POUND GUNDAM IS NOW COMPLETE
BY: ELIAS MARAT ... Japan’s life-size, fully functional 55,000-pound Gundam is now complete Late last month, footage emerged of Japan’s full-sized Gundam robot testing the functionality of its legs in the Port of Yokohama which lies near Tokyo. Late last month, footage emerged of Japan’s full-sized Gundam robot … continue reading

GOOGLE DEVELOPING TATTOOS THAT TURN SKIN INTO TOUCHPAD; RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING SKIN-DRAWN MONITOR
BY: AARON KESEL ... Google announced that its working on developing the next futuristic technology beyond smartphones — tattoos that turn the user … continue reading

I'VE WORN ALEXA-ENABLED GLASSES FOR TWO WEEKS. THEY'RE DRIVING ME BANANAS
BY: GEOFFREY A. FOWLER ... What do you call it when there's a little voice in your head only you can hear? A hallucination? Amazon calls it progress. I've been living with its latest talking artificial intelligence product, called the Echo Frames, for two weeks. They're glasses with tiny speakers and a microphone … continue reading

CHINA STOLE TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD A 3-PRONGED HIGH TECH WEAPON SYSTEM THAT COULD TAKE DOWN THE US POWER GRID
BY: LANCE D JOHNSON... TA shocking report from the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security warns that China now has control of a 3-pronged high tech weapon system could easily take down the US power grid. The 3-prong weapon system includes technology stolen from the U.S., and encompasses a network of satellites … continue reading

CLEARVIEW AI MAY BE ILLEGAL IN EU WATCHDOG SAYS
BY: AARON KESEL ... The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said that the use of Clearview artificial intelligence by law enforcement would “likely not be consistent with the EU data protection regime.” The board added that it “has doubts as to whether any Union or Member State law provides a legal basis for using a service … continue reading

BROOKINGS: WHOEVER WINS THE AI RACE WILL RULE THE WORLD
BY: INDERMIT GILL ... It will not be the intelligence of men who will run the future world, but rather an artificial intelligence programmed to create a global Scientific Dictatorship. This is the nature and future of Technocracy. The Brookings Institution is an old-line establishment think-tank closely aligned … continue reading

THIS STORY ON SMARTPHONE TRACKING IS THE “MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE YOU SHOULD READ TODAY" PERIOD
BY: JESSICA CORBETT ... The New York Times on Thursday sparked calls for congressional action by publishing the first article … continue reading