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This article explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and the need to push its boundaries. It acknowledges the various capabilities of AI, such as generating images and playing games, but emphasizes that these capabilities are currently isolated. The article argues that by interconnecting these skills, similar to how neurons form networks in the human brain, AI can reach new heights. It also discusses the need for regulatory frameworks to ensure safety but advocates for unrestricted exploration within ethical boundaries. The article further explores how AI can reflect human cognitive processes but warns about the potential for biases and misinterpretations. It concludes by stating that AI can amplify human mental powers and calls for further exploration into the unknown. The article also provides a brief history of AI, from its origins in the 1940s to recent advancements in deep learning. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores how the surprising water footprint of semiconductor manufacturing, datacenters, and AI solutions is sparking sustainable development. The semiconductor industry's rapid expansion, driven by the demand for chips used in smartphones, electronics, and AI services, has raised concerns about water usage due to both manufacturing processes and datacenter cooling requirements. While companies like Google and Intel are committing to water-positive goals by 2030, innovations in recycling and treatment technologies, such as those developed by Gradiant, offer promising solutions to minimize water consumption and environmental impact according to Gradiant CEO Anurag Bajpayee. Despite the challenges posed by water scarcity, semiconductor manufacturers are proactively addressing sustainability concerns through strategic water management practices and technological advancements.

This article explores the use of digital twins in the field of biomedicine. Topics include the current efforts of Juan R. Perilla to develop a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) digital twin and Reinhard Laubenbacher’s work on building a digital twin of the human immune system. The article looks at how digital twins have already been used in other industries, such as the manufacturing industry, and how use in biomedicine comes with unique challenges including the need for new technologies.

In November 2014, a tech-industry consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the pictoqrams. [paragraph] EMMA KELLY, editor andfounder of the site Ginger [...]

The article discusses the increasing presence of deepfake videos on various social media platforms and efforts to better detect them. Several researchers -- including Hany Farid, Siwei Lyu, Sophie Nightingale, and Yuval Nirkin -- discuss their efforts to develop tools to distinguish deepfake videos from real ones.

This past summer, a nasty layer of slime stretched across the western portion of Lake Erie. The water looked as if someone had dumped an enormous bucket of bright-green paint [...]

We know what you're thinking: love drones? Those ominous, free-floating, sometimes unseen killers that have walked our nation out onto some perilously thin ice, geopolitically and ethically? Even the word [...]

The article discusses developments in evolutionary robotics, particularly the creation of biological machines known as biobots by two University of Illinois engineers. According to the article, the biobots utilize neuronal cells and three-dimensionally (3D) printed polymer skeletons respectively. It examines the challenges of programming biobots and research conducted jointly by the University of Vermont and Tufts, in addition to the University of the West of England.

The article explores how as of 2020 cryptographers in the fields of academia, government and industry are working to prepare algorithms to ensure security in a world of quantum computing. Topics discussed include a Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization project being run by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), insights from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematician Vinod Vaikuntanathan and the future of online commercial transactions.

The article discusses technological advances in the synthesis and modeling of the human voice via machine learning, including the development of what is referred to as automatic speech-to-speech translation. The article also states that the technology may allow for the generation of speech in several different languages.

In 1736 the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler ended a debate among the citizens of Konigsberg, Prussia, by drawing a graph. The Pregel River divided the city, now Kaliningrad, Russia, into [...]

IN A SMALL, SPARSELY furnished room, a young boy in a black T-shirt backs himself into a corner. He's cautious. Cameras capture his movements, and microphones record every sound. But [...]

Today's cars may seem too sophisticated for tinkering, but the DIY auto movement is thriving, yielding designs and innovations too radical for mass production, Here are four awesome examples of [...]

ON OCTOBER 7, 2008, shortly before dawn in northern Sudan, a trucker named Omar Fadul el Mula was praying at a remote teahouse in the Nubian Desert when a bright [...]

Glenn Martin was three years old when he 'fixed' his mom's broken vacuum cleaner, plugged it back in, and blew out the power in the neighborhood. At five, he stood [...]

THE TRANSITION IS NOT a flying car. The vehicle, set to go on sale next year, will cruise smoothly on the road and through the sky. It will have four [...]

AFGHANISTAN. A HIDDEN BUNKER. Four men with rifles guard a thick, rusted steel door. Bam! A huge fist pounds against it--from inside. Bam! More blows dent the steel. The hinges [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] the ancient rulers of Ireland, the Tuatha De Danann, had a rough few millennia after losing control of the island. Some were banished, others turned into fairies, and […]

IN MARCH 2004, staffers at Industrial Light & Magic in San Rafael, California, filed in and out of a screening room, drawn by news of a technology demonstration. Tech breakthroughs [...]

TIME 5 months COST $2,350 Justin Beckerman was walking to high school with some friends when one of them spied an abandoned soda fountain in a parking lot. 'Dude, you [...]

TIME 3 years COST $250,000 In 2007, Matt Denton stopped on the side of the road near his home in Hampshire, England, to watch an excavator dig. The machines had [...]

Despite his devotion to Daleks--those cruel, armor-clad extraterrestrials from the TV show Doctor Who, now in its 50th year--Jim Rossiter has no interest in annihilating other civilizations. The 57-year-old Australian [...]

Mechanical engineer Jason Bell has helped people throw themselves off the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia, for more than a decade. About 400 BASE jumpers each year, [...]

ONE SUMMER, a young engineer walked into Austin's Park, an amusement center outside the Texas capital, and introduced himself to the manager as an intern from Waterloo Labs--a hacking collaborative [...]

NEWS OF IMPENDING fatherhood affects men in different ways. Some guys pump their fists. Others light cigars. A few flee. When 33-year-oid Colin Furze learned that his girlfriend was pregnant, [...]

TWO SUMMERS AGO, Easton LaChappelle thought it would be fun to build a robotic arm controlled wirelessly using a glove. LaChappelle, then 14, knew nothing about electronics, programming, or robots-but [...]

Failure is supposed to be a bad thing. In materials science, however, understanding and predicting how a new fiber, composite material, or type of plastic breaks, snaps, melts, fractures, or [...]

CAT WOODMANSEE didn't want to Commute by car or train, but the 50-year-old Silicon Valley software engineer wasn't up to pedaling his bicycle 60 miles a day either. So, using [...]

The article discusses the creation of computing devices and robots that are DNA-based and RNA-based. Topics include the relation of molecular machine creation to biological robots, the performance of complex tasks by molecular robots, and the role of modularity in the construction of biological robots.

The article discusses the development of sensory substitution technology, a term for mobile application software and devices that collect visual, auditory, and haptic stimuli to help blind or deaf users. A history of devices and technology for the impaired is provided before covering topics such as speech recognition technology, automation, and smart technology.

Internships more often than not are mindless, coffee-fetching black holes of boredom. But not at Syyn Labs, a Los Angeles collective that creates unusual interactive art and science projects for [...]

Late one night two years ago, Adam Munich found himself talking with two new acquaintances in a chatroom. One, a Pakistani guy, was complaining about rolling electricity blackouts In his [...]

NAP PEPIN HAD been waiting on the side of the highway near his Alberta, Canada, home for more than hour when the tow truck finally pulled up. The driver looked [...]

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS JUNE 3 STORY: The fifth in this popular series of comic-book spin-offs is a prequel: In the early 1960s, super-psychic Charles Xavier secretly establishes a school for [...]

Dutch vehicle designer Allert Jacobs knew that his fuel-sipping, shell-encased motorcycle was street-legal. Unfortunately, the police didn't, and impounded it after pulling him over during a test run. But Jacobs [...]

In a series of studies designed to assess two anti-tissue-rejection drugs, former University of Alabama-Birmingham surgeons Judith Thomas and Juan Contreras carefully detailed experiments in which they replaced one kidney [...]

At first it sounds like a terrible plan, the kind that results in zombies ruling the Earth. Imagine a killer virus, a bug that mutates so often that it inevitably [...]